Favorite Images of Projects Past
Photos, Sketches, Plans, & Drawings
Images of some of my favorite stuff here…
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Rees and His Big Ideas
Ideas
Always dreaming up some kinda trouble…
Roeboy! “&” Guitar
Roeboy Ampersand Guitar One SM So in 2019Â I found an old arch top guitar hanging BY A HOOK in an old junk shop. The back and face split in several places, the back coming off and the sides misshapen. That hook through the headstock and deep pits in the ebony fretboard...
PhD Comprehensive Exam Presentation
Defense Presentation V4_smallest In the early months of 2018 I announced to my colleagues at CUNY that I would be stepping down from my position as Associate Professor and return to graduate school.  The goal was to get my PhD while exploring my interests in futurism...
Structure & Flow: An organizational structure learning game
In Dr. Sharon Rallisâ graduate class âStrategies for Institutional Changeâ (Spring 2019) we were exploring Boleman and Dealâs structural framework analysis of organizations. I had been pondering the metaphor or magnetic polarity as it might correspond to the flow of...
Einstein & the Honeybee: An Introduction to Game Design and Game Development
Einstein & the Honeybee: An Introduction to Game Design and Game Development By The Hive Cooperative This book is a wonderful introduction to game design, iterative methodologies, and usability issues that will help young designers gain a grasp of important...
Courses developed to date
I have been designing curriculum since 2003.  One of my guiding principles is to develop courses that engage students in a subject from multiple angles that require them to conceptualize means of addressing larger issues through incremental iteration and collaborative...
Next Note Music Conference 2012
In the Spring of 2012, I organized a small music conference at CUNY which involved a daylong event at Hostos in which music professionals came to campus and discussed the state of the music industry at that time, relevant trends in career development for artists,...
Favorite Videos of Projects Past
Video locker
Here are some of the videos found scattered throughout the site, collected here for easier access…
Roeboy! “&” Guitar
Roeboy Ampersand Guitar One SM So in 2019Â I found an old arch top guitar hanging BY A HOOK in an old junk shop. The back and face split in several places, the back coming off and the sides misshapen. That hook through the headstock and deep pits in the ebony fretboard...
Reading Dylan Thomas’ A Child’s Christmas in Wales
A Child’s Christmas in Wales – read by Rees Shadsm Growing up my family celebrated Christmas with all the trimmings, but my wife and I raised our kids in her faith – Judaism. Â Every year IÂ had one christmas tradition, however, the reading of Dylan...
PhD Comprehensive Exam Presentation
Defense Presentation V4_smallest In the early months of 2018 I announced to my colleagues at CUNY that I would be stepping down from my position as Associate Professor and return to graduate school.  The goal was to get my PhD while exploring my interests in futurism...
The Convo Combo – Turnaround
January 2019 Session with the Convo Combo (Rob Kovacs, Pat Perkinson, & myself) covering Ornette Colemanâs âTurnaround.â Hereâs a little video I threw together using Rubin Henriquezâs wonderful photographs from that...
Reunion (2004)
Synopsis: In 1994, after the loss of my adopted parents, I stumbled into a discovery that would change my life forever. Within two days of making an exploratory phone call to an adoptee hotline, I discovered my birth family. In them I found answers to questions I...
NBC Interview
In 2012 I was honored to be chosen as the CASE New York Professor of the Year. Â Folks from the local NYC NBC affiliate came up to the Bronx and interviewed me for a short...
Notable Research
Research
My most recent research is focused on futurism and academic policy relating to preparing the next generation for a vastly different future, but in the past I have examined game play as a pedagogiocal tool, kinesthetic learning, and establishing less siloed learning systems. Here are some examples of my work…
PhD Comprehensive Exam Presentation
Defense Presentation V4_smallest In the early months of 2018 I announced to my colleagues at CUNY that I would be stepping down from my position as Associate Professor and return to graduate school.  The goal was to get my PhD while exploring my interests in futurism...
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