Posted in 3485, 3484, 3486, 3487, 3488, 3483, 2968, my, blogging, the, students, and, General on Jul 26th, 2008 Comments Off
about blogging in my classes. What is my method? How do I communicate to students the reasons for blogging, and how do I get them to commit to the exploratory spirit of the endeavor in a school context that emphasizes frequent incremental assessments of items on a task-list?
As I talked to Jim, I realized that […]
Posted in 3478, 2720, 3479, 3480, 3482, 3481, 3426, 3159, mind, the, and, a, 2731, 2861, General on Jul 23rd, 2008 Comments Off
Not quite the day-after report I’d hoped to make, but as we’ve discussed recently in the Milton seminar, time is a difficult dimension that consistently weighs on Milton’s mind and ours. So later and briefer than I’d like, here are my thoughts.
The evening was magical as ever. This surprised me a bit, truth to tell, […]
Posted in 3436, 3435, 3434, 3437, 3438, 3441, 3440, 3439, 3433, 3432, an, and, the, 3293, 3429, 3431, 3430, General on Jun 14th, 2008 Comments Off
In the mid- and late 1960’s, Charles Marowitz directed an interesting remix of Hamlet called “Collage Hamlet.” The technique, according to Marowitz, borrowed from Burrough’s cut-ups. It’s also eerily prescient of contemporary remix/mashup culture. I saw excerpts from his production in the A&E Biography episode on Hamlet. I wish I could see the whole thing. […]
Posted in 3424, 3423, 3425, 3426, 3428, 3427, 3422, 3421, and, my, a, 2754, 3420, 3256, General on May 29th, 2008 Comments Off
Given my love of metaphor, juxtaposibility, and “mappingness” (to say nothing of my love of oddball neologisms), I have to report on a particularly intriguing juxtaposition I found for my talk at the 2008 CHEMA meeting in Louisville last week. As I was finishing my prep for the talk, I’d pretty much settled on beginning […]
Posted in 3387, 3386, 3385, 3388, 3389, 3392, 3391, 3390, 2735, 2964, story, the, my, and, 2745, 2962, 2829, General on Feb 27th, 2008 Comments Off
I’m too tired tonight to do any justice at all to this story, but I would like to note it and perhaps return to it another time.
Today in the 11:00 section of my Introduction to Literary Studies class the discussion was particularly rich and intense. At one point I was asking one student a series […]
Posted in 3377, 3378, 3376, 3375, 3374, 3379, 3380, 3384, 3383, 3382, 3381, 3373, 2759, today, and, the, learned, Video, 2962, 2966, 3195, 3185, 3145, 3007, General on Feb 26th, 2008 Comments Off
We finished the McLuhan video in New Media Studies today, and the students learned that MM had children (six, in fact) with a very charming and intelligent wife who both marveled at her husband and waxed rueful about his idiosyncracies. We learned that his son could not convince MM that in fact Brasilia was now […]
Posted in 3366, 3365, 3364, 3363, 3367, 3368, 3372, 3371, 3370, 3369, 3362, 3361, lives, the, post, article, today, and, a, 2757, an, General on Feb 24th, 2008 Comments Off
Today’s Washington Post features an unusually fine article from Joel Garreau (registration required) concerning the ways in which cellphones have changed, and continue to transform, our lives as a species on this planet. Twenty-five years of cellphone technology have brought us to the point that Google CEO Eric Schmidt can say, “Eventually there will be […]
Posted in 3235, 3082, 2993, 2735, 3354, 3355, 3358, 3357, 3356, 2966, 2962, reading, blog, posts, the, today, a, and, inspiring, General on Feb 21st, 2008 Comments Off
The Intro. to New Media Studies class today was pretty explosive. I had assigned excerpts in The New Media Reader from McLuhan’s Gutenberg Galaxy and The Medium is the Message. I was up this morning about 5, reading some insightful and tremendously inspiring blog posts from the class. A couple of the posts were especially […]
Posted in 3316, 3315, 3314, 3317, 3318, 3321, 3320, 3319, 3313, 3312, my, farther, General, and, 3308, 3311, 3310, 3309, Wordpress on Feb 16th, 2008 Comments Off
Catching up on my back blog reading, when what to my wondering eyes should appear than this magnum opus from Alan Levine. What’s one level up from alpha dog? Whatever it is, he is it.
For anyone who wants a thorough and wonderfully graded approach to customizing WordPress, look no farther. Alan’s come up with some […]
Posted in 3266, 3265, 3264, 3263, 3267, 3268, 3271, 3270, 3269, 3262, 3261, and, session, the, 2910, 2955, 2735, 2966, 2962, General on Feb 13th, 2008 Comments Off
ELI’s just published an interview with me and Serena Epstein at the ELI 2008 Annual Meeting, held in San Antonio just a few weeks ago. Interviewer/producer Gerry Bayne did an amazing job of corralling me into coherence, both during the interview and (especially) in post-production. My thanks to him, and also to Serena Epstein (heard […]