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 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. […]
Posted in 3415, 3414, 3413, 3416, 3417, means, 3419, 3418, 3412, 3411, a, the, Audio, 3406, 3407, 3410, 3409, 3408, General on May 19th, 2008 Comments Off
Promising new functionality from ITConversations: one can build a URL that will excerpt a portion of the recorded audio. I’m testing it here:
[audio clip]
The only hitch in the get-along is the requirement to specify a start time “after the intro.” As a former ITConversations post-production audio editor, I reckon this means after the show theme, […]
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 […]