Myanmar Update
tokyokevinFrank is away, I am staying at his apartment in the Pansodong area of Yangon, waiting for the next session of teacher…
Myanmar 2017 Day 3
Day 3 Wake up early, pounding rain outside, novel until it gets light out. About 7 AM a bunch of teens unload a truck full of sand at the bungalow…
Myanmar 2017 Day 2
Day 2 Frank gets up, shows me how the wifi doesn’t work. We spend the morning buying a phone to get hooked up. Three trips back to the store to…
Myanmar 2017 Day 1
August 2nd, last day of teaching an intensive summer course in Tokyo, and get my grades in after that. I have been going “a tope” (Spanish for “full out”) for…
Is “picting” a word? Should it be?
So you have "texting", and a new--some would say equivalent--literacy of taking pictures, or "picting". Norris and Soloway argue that it is becoming more and more important. To which I…