About Dave Moore (songwriter, roots music)
I am back to writing a new OPML chapter a day, after a two week pause. I have a good excuse. I had two (yes, two) emergency back surgeries.
The first surgery was on Friday, December 22, at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
On Saturday just before Christmas my dad drove up to Rochester. He kindly brought me back to eastern Iowa, where I grew up and he still lives.
We arrived on Christmas eve. For Christmas eve dinner we were guests of his generous next door neighbors, Tim and Sara Kelley, and their son Sean, daughter-in-law Rachel, and two grandchildren Brian and Reilly. A very creative family.
Rachel Williams is a professor of Art Education at the University of Iowa, and she and I got to discussing online portfolios. OPML is perfect for online portfolios–so I was excited by her ideas. I have long been a fan of portfolios as an approach to summarizing the accomplishments in education. Portfolios are much better than grades. With portfolios, students are encouraged to make real, transferable objects, true and lasting contributions, and present those to prospective collaborators, customers, and employers.
The next day I seized an opportunity to experiment with an OPML portfolio. My brother Dave is a roots singer-songwriter.*
Dave has a variety of music that is available online, including samples of songs on Amazon.com, downloadable songs on iTunes, and videos on YouTube and Google video. The issue is how to put references together for these materials, and how to make a site that is friendly to the user that provides attractive and easy access.
Christmas day my Dad and I journeyed to Iowa City, for brunch with my brother Dave, sister-in-law Lysa, and daughter Josie. We enjoy a grand spread, good fun, and a long walk in the woods along the Iowa river, following Dave’s two dogs who romped ahead.
Somewhere in the walk I suggested Dave and I do an interview and perhaps make a portfolio of his work. Since I was laid up anyway, we waited a couple of days and then met down at my dad’s house. The interview, done with an old Cannon Elph, SD110, 3.2 megapixels, turned out great.
I combined this with some other material, in a portfolio created on intelligentteams.com.
Click http://intelligentteams.com/browse/aboutdavemoore. Enjoy! This is a work-in-progress, and I expect to add more material as I have opportunity. That, of course, is the nature of a portfolio.
*We three brothers are close personally but very different professionally. Our other brother Charlie became a professional horse trainer and now is a businessman and blogger in Casper, Wyoming.