Be sure to use the online registration to claim your FREE seat at “Playing With Ideas.”

We have five speakers, including Scott Dugdale of WaveGroup Audio-creators of Guitar Hero, Dave Master of The ACME Network, helping to connect college and high school students with professional animators, and Donna Eyestone, a podcasting teacher and former Apple content creator.

The event is in the Shasta College Theater building, Reddig, Friday April 3rd from 8 am registration to 2:30 pm. Check it out.

I’m Robb Lightfoot, the webmaster here, and a teacher by trade. I’m a communications instructor, teaching everything from debate and speech to journalism and multimedia.

In short, I’m a utility player. I have long had a passion for the spoken word, hence my degrees in speech. Vox is, of course, Latin for “voice.” It also has another meaning that I cherish. It’s a shorthand expression from radio, ham radio in my case, for “voice-operated transmission.”  This is where, when you start talking, the radio kicks itself on.

This was a new thing when I first hit the airwaves in 1970, and I thought it was pretty cool. Talk, and the technology is there with you.

We’ve come a long way since then, and I’ve changed with the times to follow other passions, including documentary film making and music.

The great thing about New Media is that it is a “big tent” sort of discipline. All of those pursuits will be found here as we develop this networking site. I encourage you to participate.

Thanks for checking us out. You can expect blogs on the local music, media andarts scene. Cool local businesses will be featured, too, as will interesting classes, instructors and students.

I an be reached here, or via my home web www.robblightfoot.com.