Posted in 3491, 3492, 3493, 3494, 3490, 3489, the, a, 3458, General on Aug 1st, 2008 Comments Off
Inspired (nudged, prompted) by a recent e-mail from Janet, I’m trying to catch up with that builder and curator of a cabinet of wonders who calls himself Michael Wesch. Watching him and his work is like watching a time-lapse photograph of the Empire State Building going up. Every morning a new story appears. Amazing.
So this […]
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 , General on Jul 9th, 2008 Comments Off
A little over a month ago I was privileged to attend and speak at the 2008 SUNY Conference on Instructional Technologies, splendidly hosted this year by SUNY-Genesee Community College. (You’ll need to use IE to get to the program pdfs; at least, I did.) The theme was “Are We There Yet? Teachers and Learners in […]
Posted in 3472, 3471, 3470, 3469, 3473, 3474, 3477, 3476, 3475, 3468, 3467, a, the, my, , 2722, 3466, 3465, 3464, General on Jul 6th, 2008 Comments Off
Final at UMW under my supervision, that is. It may happen again at my next post, and for all I know the Miltonist who succeeds me at the University of Mary Washington may be just ambitious, idealistic, and nutty enough to want to keep the tradition going. Time will tell. (Yes, I will blog about […]
Posted in 3460, 3461, 3462, 3463, 3459, 3405, my, office, the, 3043, General on Jun 27th, 2008 Comments Off
Dr. Elizabeth Phillips in her office in Trible Hall at Wake Forest University. I’m not sure when the photograph was taken, but this is how I remember her from my first class with her in the fall of 1975. Whatever I say here will be too little or too much or not quite right. I […]
Posted in 3450, 3451, 3449, 3448, 3447, 3452, 3453, 3457, 3458, 3456, 3455, 3454, 3446, 3445, marathon, a, conference, the, my, 2892, 3099, 3444, 3443, 3442, 3314, General on Jun 14th, 2008 Comments Off
Inspired by Alan’s post–and amazed he’s not in a coma after the high-energy marathon of the NMC annual conference just concluded–I offer my own Wordle del.icio.us tag cloud. Jonathan Feinberg has built a compelling visualization tool that can generate a tag cloud from del.icio.us or a word cloud from any text. (I just saw an […]
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. […]
This weekend, I went to not one, but two Italian cities! Here’s the obligatory photo of the leaning tower of Pisa:
I think this picture looks like it could be on a postcard- the weather was so beautiful when I took it! But as the next photo shows, the weather was pretty variable that day:
Yes, it really does lean that far! Pisan architects have […]
Posted in General on May 29th, 2008 Comments Off
You watched me as a I, a bewildered freshman, slowly learned how to adapt to university life. Now why not join me for a month in Siena, Italy, as I learn to function in italian daily life! I’m going to use this blog to post photos and share events that could happen Only in Italy (OI). It’ll […]