Sometimes it's easy to forget just how lucky I am to have the same guys together after so many years. It isn't like our professional lives have been parallel. One's a homicide detective, another owns a financial planning firm, another a chain of comic book stores, application support, software development, theme park design. We're all over the map, but without exception, the weekly game is one of best parts of our lives.
Can't wait to see your stuff!
Spatial skills
Most of what you've been speaking about sounds like what Howard Gardner calls Multiple Intelligences. Do you find yourself more global or linear? Have you had an organizational testing done (such as Gregorc's)? What's your preferred input method - audio, visual, or kinesthetic? Learning styles / methods is one of my interests....
Nice to see another DnD player -- 1977, though right now only have 1 semi regular and another who only plays between terms. As I've had to return to school to become re-employable myself, that can be an issue. What do you teach? I did my BS in History, and worked as a research assistant for awhile. My love of history and cartography, of course, is wonderfully sated by my DnD sessions; I just wish there were more hours in the weekend! Heh heh
Post the work on your album. Let's take a look. Mine aren't up to most of those grand masters who stride these halls, but I do pick up a few ideas. And these grand masters are very kind.
"Wherever you go, there you are." -- Buckaroo Banzai
Hi Doctor! Thanks for the welcome! It's rare for me to find someone who started playing D&D before I did! In fact it's been many years since I come across anyone else who has. When you said, "only have 1 semi regular and another who only plays between terms" do you refer to two different players for whom you DM?Originally Posted by The Good Doctor
I've heard the term "multiple intelligences" but don't know Gardner's work (or Gregorc's) so I'm not familiar with his particular use of "global" vs. "linear" or his distinctions among "visual," "audio," and "kinesthetic." If kinesthetic refers to learning by touching, then I'd say it's almost certainly the way I learn least. As for choosing between visual and audio, does reading count as visual (as it is in the general sense of the term) or audio? I'm much more likely to learn how something works, for instance, by reading about it than by looking at it. As for between global and linear, using the general meanings of the terms I think both ways: I think in terms of the big picture, and I think in a logical, linear fashion. That's one of the problems with intellectuals and field-specific jargon: the jargon often has meanings far removed from the original, general meaning of the word. Take "rational" in economics as an example. In general "rational" refers to thinking logically; in economics, however, it simply refers to acting purposefully. Field-specific jargon often causes a great deal of confusion when first trying to teach the field.
Speaking of teaching, I currently teach both economics and accounting. I have my B.S. in Accountancy, an MT (Master of Taxation, a graduate degree in tax law), and an M.A. in history (major field US since the Civil War, minor fields in Russian history [Kievan and Soviet] and economics). I've also been in Ph.D. programs in history (fields in US history since 1920, American economic history, and European Economic History since 1700) and economics. Difficulty creating topics small enough to research and write (that anyone would want to publish) pretty much drove me out of both Ph.D. programs. I taught history for a decade during my first Ph.D. program, and I've also taught rhetoric.
Where are these albums located? Thanks!
Album Issues
OK I found my album and uploaded 22 of the 23 Nador maps (1-20 & 22-23). When I try to upload Map 21, however, I get the following message:
I did send a message to he administrator, but can anyone help?Your submission could not be processed because a security token was missing.
If this occurred unexpectedly, please inform the administrator and describe the action you performed before you received this error.
Since I uploaded the maps in order (except 21) they now appear in the album in reverse order. Is there any way to change the order in which they appear in the album? Thanks!
The security token is odd. Thats part of vBulletin - the software running the boards. My suggestion is to log out and then log back in again. You might also try and clear browser 'cookies' if that fails as I think the token is stored in that.
Interesting that you taught rhetoric. You don't see that all to often. Isn't that debating and logic and stuff like that - a branch of philosophy ?
Thanks, Redrobes. I tried all that, but nothing worked. I even tried renaming the file, but that didn't work either. I tried a different browser, and got no error message--but the file didn't ever upload either. Finally I took the original, which was very light and had only at little peninsula sticking into it, and wrote the name of the landmass on it so that the software running the website would have more to "see" in the file, rescanned the file, gave it a different name, and uploaded it without a problem. So I'm guessing that the software running the website just didn't see the earlier version as an actual picture or something along those lines.
Now that I have all 23 maps in the album, is there any way to change the order in which the maps appear in the album? Thanks.
Here are my maps in the album: http://www.cartographersguild.com/album.php?albumid=121
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