Every time someone starts an in-depth explanation of something, or I need to explain something that requires a variety of steps, I ask for “the whiteboard.” I assume at that point that only a detailed diagram will be able to provide any sensical explanation.
I always needed a whiteboard when I covered one of the major themes of my life in my teaching, namely, how nothing you ever do is wasted. My illustration, with words and many arrows, would demonstrate how taking that radio production course and then working in college FM and commercial AM radio stations fed into me being a DJ in Second Life and also doing sound design for my theatre productions.
The idea of nothing being wasted has been resurrected with starting my own theatre company. When I was teaching my Arts Entrepreneurship class, discussing branding, marketing, and accounting, I didn’t know that I would be putting all of that to good use. Now here I am, practicing, as they say, what I preached.
I didn’t know at the time that all that research into the theoretical would become so practical.
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