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- SUNY-CIT 2008
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Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:33:54 +0000
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 [...] - Twelfth and final Paradise Lost All-Night Readathon
Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:50:34 +0000
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 [...] - My beloved English professor, Elizabeth Phillips (2mb)
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:51:00 +0000
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 [...] - Following the CogDog with a Wordle of my own
Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:17:28 +0000
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 [...] - Charles Marowitz on ?Company Sense?
Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:44:35 +0000
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. [...] - Delectable and useful juxtapositions
Thu, 29 May 2008 09:22:35 +0000
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 [...] - Excerpting audio from ITConversations (1mb)
Mon, 19 May 2008 22:20:57 +0000
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, [...] - Computers as Poetry
Mon, 19 May 2008 02:37:20 +0000
Let’s see. I think I remember how to do this…. There was a continental divide of sorts in my semester this spring, neatly marked by Spring Break. The Thursday before break, I did the Coleridge reading detailed in the preceding post. It seems to me now that I may have sensed how much was about [...] - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:28:00 +0000
I was privileged to read several lyrics by Coleridge this past Thursday as part of the University of Mary Washington’s venerable “Thursday Poems” series. The idea is simple: gather on Thursday afternoon to hear someone read thirty minutes worth of poetry. No lectures, minimal commentary, mostly just great verse. My colleague and mentor Bill Kemp [...] - I Shook Hands With William F. Buckley, Jr.
Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:21:37 +0000
WFB in 1984, about six years after I met him. Photo from NY Times story here. Strange but true: I shook this man’s hand. It’s strange because I never enjoyed the two or three episodes of “Firing Line” I watched when I was a high school debater and eager to learn more about the dark [...]
