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These are examples of my teaching experience. I find it one of the most rewarding parts of what I do.

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Ewing CLC presents: An Introduction to Social Networks

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Venue: Ewing Computer Learning Center

Abstract: In this presentation, I will present the broad concepts shared in various social networks, how they can be used, why they should be used, and some concerns that people have with them.

Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MGHy2cSujK3xqMHjjPxv9TTLW6mi1Nb8wbOcVx-gQg8/edit?usp=sharing

Press release: “”“An Introduction to Today’s Social Networking”

Computer Program to Explore
Facebook, Twitter, etc. June 1st


Today hundreds of million of people take advantage of ‘Social Networking’ websites through which they share information on a variety of topics and interests as varied as our society and human history,” says John LeMasney, Manager of Technology Training at Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ. “Some people, however, find the concept of ‘social networking’ to be confusing, pointless, and a waste of time. I want to explain why it does not have to be.” LeMasney will explore some of the most popular social networking websites in a program entitled “An Introduction to Today’s Social Networking”. “There are literally hundreds of online communities one can join, each with their own culture and purpose,” says LeMasney. “During my program, I will demonstrate how one can use popular websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, LinkedIn and WordPress. I plan to highlight their key features, advantages, and disadvantages, as well as how to use them safely.” As Manager of Technology Training at Rider University since 1998, LeMasney assists faculty, staff and students in integrating technology into their work, classroom, and extracurricular activities. A Fine Arts graduate of the University of Arts in Philadelphia, he recently received a Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership with distinction from Rider University. He holds LPI Level One Certification in Linux Administration and chairs the Ewing Web Committee. A self-proclaimed “open web advocate and open source evangelist,” LeMasney is also a designer, artist, writer, technologist and consultant who lives and works in the Ewing area. You can find and connect with John, known as “lemasney” on Facebook, Twitter, and Gmail.

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Rider University May Faculty Development Day 2010: Social Networks for Academia

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Date: Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Venue: Rider University Science and Technology Building.

Abstract: This session will introduce attendees to four of the most popular social networks, illustrating how specific features of each can be used to directly support academic goals. Using examples from Rider and other institutions, the audience will see how academics can use LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Ning in support of curricular, co-curricular, recruitment, publicity, and community outreach purposes. We will discuss why social networks exist as well as the pitfalls, benefits, and usage best practices. Attendees will have the opportunity to create one or more social network accounts and be given guidance on how to start using them for some specific academic purpose.

Presentation: http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0Ad-YsRMv5bPqZGNrZm05ZndfNDg1Z3dkcDc3cnQ&hl=en

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Design is about placement, color, line, type, shape, and passion cc-by lemasney

Design is about placement, color, line, type, shape, and passion cc-by lemasney
Design is about placement, color, line, type, shape, and passion cc-by lemasney

Design is about placement, color, line, type, shape, and passion cc-by lemasney
Design is about placement, color, line, type, shape, and passion cc-by lemasney

On the importance of design

If you know me, really at any level, you know how important design is to me. You know that I feel like it surrounds us, a physio-visio-spatial fabric that helps to define a space, a  culture or a community. I would also say that once you are past the idea that it requires magic or some gift of birth, you understand that you can do it too, given the right tools. Many of the designers I know who are asked to design each day are flummoxed not by the blank page, but because they are using Word or Publisher or PowerPoint to design, and for no other reason other than familiarity.

Using the right tool for the job of design

 

Let’s stop that where we see it, okay? Inkscape is one answer, but others exist. Oh, there’s one other requirement for design: You have to love it. You have to have a passion for having the right outcomes. You have to care about it. Otherwise, it will just be text and pictures on a page. You need to be able to be inspired by sites like and even if you feel like your work doesn’t belong there.

Passion is a big part of Design

The desire to help people learn is the key skill in being a great trainer. Legitimacy, transparency, and patience are definitely important too. My experience has been that getting past the fear of one’s own designs is really about getting your designs in front of the eyes of others, gaining feedback, improving, and growing. This project has really helped me to do that!

 

Hope you enjoyed today’s sketch!

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Girl silhouette in morning light cc-by lemasney

Girl silhouette in morning light cc-by lemasney
Girl silhouette in morning light cc-by lemasney

Girl silhouette in morning light cc-by lemasney
Girl silhouette in morning light cc-by lemasney

Innocence – Poem by Thomas Traherne

“But that which most I wonder at, which most

I did esteem my bliss, which most I boast,

And ever shall enjoy, is that within

I felt no stain, nor spot of sin.

 

No darkness then did overshade,

But all within was pure and bright,

No guilt did crush, nor fear invade

But all my soul was full of light.

A joyful sense and purity

Is all I can remember;

The very night to me was bright,

‘Twas summer in December.

 

A serious meditation did employ

My soul within, which taken up with joy

Did seem no outward thing to note, but fly

All objects that do feed the eye.

 

While it those very objects did

Admire, and prize, and praise, and love,

Which in their glory most are hid,

Which presence only doth remove.

 

Their constant daily presence I

Rejoicing at, did see;

And that which takes them from the eye

Of others, offer’d them to me.

 

No inward inclination did I feel

To avarice or pride: my soul did kneel

In admiration all the day. No lust, nor strife,

Polluted then my infant life.

 

No fraud nor anger in me mov’d,

No malice, jealousy, or spite;

All that I saw I truly lov’d.

Contentment only and delight

 

Were in my soul. O Heav’n! what bliss

Did I enjoy and feel!

What powerful delight did this

Inspire! for this I daily kneel.

 

Whether it be that nature is so pure,

And custom only vicious; or that sure

God did by miracle the guilt remove,

And make my soul to feel his love

 

So early: or that ’twas one day,

Wherein this happiness I found;

Whose strength and brightness so do ray,

That still it seems me to surround;

 

What ere it is, it is a light

So endless unto me

That I a world of true delight

Did then and to this day do see.

 

That prospect was the gate of Heav’n, that day

The ancient light of Eden did convey

Into my soul: I was an Adam there

A little Adam in a sphere

 

Of joys! O there my ravish’d sense

Was entertain’d in Paradise,

And had a sight of innocence

Which was beyond all bound and price.

 

An antepast of Heaven sure!

I on the earth did reign;

Within, without me, all was pure;

I must become a child again.”

 

– Innocence Poems – Poems For Innocence – Innocence – Poem Hunter,

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Self-portrait as a Buddha cc-by lemasney

Friendly Self Portrait
Friendly Self Portrait

Self-portrait as a Buddha cc-by lemasney
Self-portrait as a Buddha cc-by lemasney

Self portrait as Buddha

So I’ve been playing with my Facebook Profile Pic, and I did it mostly with my $100 Wacom Tablet. I’m always surprised and amazed at how easily you can modify a photographic image in Inkscape in order to transcend photography in and of itself. It’s a lot of fun to bring in a picture, trace bitmap in Inkscape, and start to work into it with the calligraphy tool. Hope you enjoyed this example of that.

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Late Night Television calls you to obey cc-by lemasney

Late Night Television calls you to obey cc-by lemasney
Late Night Television calls you to obey cc-by lemasney

So I am a bit of a night owl.

Especially on vacations, but most any night, I spend my most productive hours between 10pm-3am. I’m posting yesterday’s sketch, for instance, at 2:23 AM EDST. That’s just me. People scold me, tell me to go to sleep, and those who have meetings with me the next morning raise their eyebrows at me as if to say “late night, huh?” Yep. It was a late night, and I really enjoyed the quiet, and clear thoughts, and lack of interruptions of the day to day stuff. Very often I’ll have the TV going while I work on my laptop, but with TiVo my DVR, I no longer have to watch any of the ridiculous late night commercials. Whenever I’m elsewhere, without a TiVo DVR, I feel like it’s just easier not to watch TV.

The problem with commercial television sans DVR

Watching TV without one, especially late at night, is like a brainwashing session. BUY ME one commercial screams. YOU’RE FAT AND POOR another one bellows. BUY THIS CAR, YOU NEED HAIR, YOU HAVE ALLERGIES. I’d rather not have to pay attention to it, especially when I’m a little sleepy, and maybe a bit vulnerable to self-doubt. DVRs let me skip right past the stuff that asks me to obey. So this sketch is a little illustration of my feelings about late night TV, and I hope you like it!