The Different Faces of Tim Cook

Studio Tim Cook (center) with Irasshai studio students on the set of Irasshai.

Videoconferencing Tim Cook from his session on videoconferencing at 2006 conference of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) at the Nashville Convention Center, Nashville, Tennessee, to students at the International School of the Americas, in San Antonio, Texas. (Link to the video from here.)

Videoconferencing Tim Cook (with on-camera assistant Masako Cook) talking from the atrium of Georgia Public Broadcasting to students at Carrollton High School, Carrollton, Georgia. (Link to the video from here.)

Real Tim Cook (1st right from center) with Irasshai real students (Baton Rouge Magnet High School) at Boutin’s, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (See the video here in RealPlayer.)

Things I do for pleasure and profit

Graduate work at the University of Alabama (PhD in mass communication, May 2004; Dissertation: Disciplining Television: Ideology as Read Through High School Distance Learning Videos).
Teaching Survey to Mass Communication (MC 101, Spring 2007), Social and Behavioral Science Core, Public Health (HB 600Q, Summer 2008), and Introductory Japanese (JPA 101, Spring 2009) at the Univerisity of Alabama at Birmingham.
Teaching Japanese by TV for Irasshai, the distance learning course in Japanese language and culture from Georgia Public Broadcasting—Education. Video portion of lessons is viewable on the Web here. A live and interactive videoconference between my students and me is viewable here.
Online course developer and former instructor of Japanese for the Georgia Virtual School.
Freelance videography, video editing, and online course development, primarily for the School of Public Health, Univerisity of Alabama at Birmingham.
Unaccompanied four-part shape-note singing, Sacred Harp and Christian Harmony (this ↓, for example: me leading “Among That Band,” a 7-shape note Christian Harmony song, at the 2007 Alabama Capitol Rotunda 4-book singing).

One-week shape-note singing school in Bibb County, Alabama, made possible by a 2008 grant from the Alabama State Council on the Arts for master folk artists to teach their art form. (I figure if Ralph Stanley can use his honorary doctorate to put “Dr.” in front of his name, I can use this to call myself an official Alabama master folk artist.)

		And now for a bald-faced commercial announcement for the film Awake My Soul, as seen on many of your PBS stations. It is the story of Sacred Harp, produced and directed by singers Matt and Erica Hinton.
		“As an introduction to Sacred Harp, it’s as amazing as the music itself.”
		—Birmingham Weekly
	Awake My Soul preview

My CV

E-mail: timcookuab.edu

You can say that again:

So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me “archpriestess of the sightless,” “wonder woman,” and “a modern miracle.” But when it comes to a discussion of poverty, and I maintain that it is the result of wrong economics—that the industrial system under which we live is at the root of much of the physical deafness and blindness in the world—that is a different matter!
—Famed Alabamian, Helen Keller, in a letter to Socialist Party presidential candidate Robert LaFollette, 1924

Love [...] means something much more than mere sentiment, much more than token favours and perfunctory almsdeeds. Love means an interior and spiritual identification with one’s brother, so that he is not regarded as an “object” to “which” one “does good.” The fact is that good done to another as to an object is of little or no spiritual value. Love takes one’s other self, and loves him with all the immense humility and discretion and reserve and reverence without which no one can presume to enter into the sanctuary of another’s subjectivity.
—Thomas Merton, in The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.	—Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love the Lord with your whole heart, mind, and spirit, and your neighbor as yourself; all else is commentary.	—Hillel, c. 110 BCE-10 CE

I’m not from the South, but I got here as soon as I could.	—James M. Cross, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham

As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools.	—A bumper sticker

Proof of the existence of God:

	This I Believe (I’m with him.)	Where Could I Go But To The Lord
The Bulgarian State Radio Vocal Choir

Proof that He is weeping:

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