Photo by Kim Jay Photography


I decided to use this really lovely headshot a friend of mine took to kick start my initial reflection/introduction because:

A) It’s a good picture 

B) You’ll know who’s blog you’re on (more on this later)

C) it’s the only professional headshot I have of myself as an adult (My last headshot was in 2006 for high school grad, and it features my trusty LARPing axe and a watermark because I was too cheap to pay for copies).

So, back to B). Who’s blog are you on? My name is Richard Clough, pronounced like rough or tough, not bough or cough. My pronouns are He/Him. I have a wide-ranging taste in hobbies and free-time activities. However, cooking, fitness, nerdy things, and, more recently, learning guitar tend to lead the charge on consuming my free time.  I was a live event audiovisual technician with most of my skill set revolving around running live robotic light shows to EDM and rock and roll, pre-pandemic. Just before the whole covid-19 thing, I decided to return to school to be a teacher. So, return I did, as a mature (yikes) student. Which, by the by, just means you’ll occasionally be mistaken for the professor. Time rolled on, and eventually, I did graduate with a BA in English and Theatre. Following that, I was fortunate enough to be accepted into the post-degree program for secondary education.

This leads me to this class, EDCI 336 and my initial reflections on setting up this blog. The blogs I found were embarrassingly tricky for me, a millennial who grew up in the golden age of blogging, to set up. However, I persisted, and here we are. It’s plain now, but I’m sure I’ll spend way too much time customizing it at some point (I’m the type of guy who spends hours and hours on the details of an avatar in character creation for those games where you only see the back of your characters head). Nevertheless, I’m pretty excited about adapting my learning of guitar and music to this blog as my free inquiry. I feel like I have lots of great ideas for storing helpful information here I can revisit. In addition, though, I also hope I can create links and resources for others who may like to chase the rabbit when they see something new as I do. I want to transform it into a truly personal resource that I am proud to share with my peers. Finally, I also wish to hone my blog-writing skills in anticipation of teaching a generation of students who rarely lift a pencil or pen out of class to write anything anymore. That’s about it for this first round, but you’ll hear back from me soon.

Cheers!
R