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 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 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 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 3283, 3282, 3279, 3278, 3285, 3288, 3294, 3291, 3290, 2860, 2970, the, my, brian, today, i, 2735, 2879, a, General on Feb 14th, 2008 Comments Off
Interesting two days, in this respect anyway: I did a presentation on Brian Wilson for Elderstudy yesterday, then explored “I Get Around” all the way through “Caroline No” for my Rock/Soul/Progressive class today. From senior citizens (I really don’t like that term much) to 18-19 year-olds. Brian spoke to all of them. This of course […]
Posted in 3234, 3232, 3230, 3227, 3236, 3238, 3245, 3243, 3241, 3239, 3226, 3223, 2940, and, the, my, 2745, 2962, 3207, 2752, 2735, General on Feb 12th, 2008 Comments Off
I’m in the midst of A. S. Byatt’s Possession in my Intro. to Literary Studies class, working up to assignment one, which asks students to work with symbolism in Byatt’s romance. The idea of symbolism is quite complex (the etymology alone is intricate and fascinating). Students are accustomed to talking about imagery, themes, character, even […]
Posted in 3130, 3131, 3132, 3129, 3128, 3125, 3126, 3127, 3133, 3134, 3139, 3140, 3141, 3138, 3137, 3135, 3136, 3124, 3123, the, keynote, speakers, my, school, twitter, precious, and, an, 3120, 3121, 3122, 3119, 3118, 3116, 3117, General on Feb 3rd, 2008 Comments Off
For days now, I’ve been mulling over this session, and the Twitter response to it while it was happening. (I was there and in that Twitter stream.) Jim’s post and the extraordinary set of comments it elicited have catalyzed my own efforts at response here.
It turns out that I have very conflicting responses. I’m sure […]