Posted on March 18, 2012 by thowe Come to this workshop session at ASECS! We’ll go over the basics of Omeka, an open-source tool developed by the Roy Rosensweig Center for History and New Media that allows you to construct descriptive archives of resources from images, to websites, to videos, and more. What’s better, our …
Some Omeka Tips and Tools
What is Omeka? Essentially, Omeka is an open-source and extensible software tool that allows you to create digital archives and collections of resources. For instance, a museum might want to create an accessible web-based repository of some of their collections in a way that makes research (or just more information) about them possible without being …
Electronic workshopping with google docs
In the past several years, I've tried many, many different workshop methodologies--the full class single-paper workshop one day, followed by small-group workshops the next; round-robin workshops; lightning critiques; the simple exchange/read/comment; send your draft to a peer through email and use Word to comment/merge; in-class electronic workshopping with a peer; in-class polishing at the computer …
Scholar’s Day 2012: Beware Women!
Tomorrow, I'll be leading a Scholar's Day mock classroom event with 9 newly-admitted students who received high academic awards. My presentation is titled "Beware Women! Jonathan Swift and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu on Women and Writing in the 18th Century." I love to teach these classes, particularly because they offer us an opportunity to start …
Found it!
Todorov, Literature and Signification, quoted in Jameson, The Prison-House of Language: A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism (1972, Princeton): Every work, every novel, tells through its fabric of events the story of its own creation, its own history... The meaning of a work lies in its telling of itself, its speaking of its …
Electronic Texts and Tacit Persuasion Patterns
Teaching critical theory last night, I was pleasantly surprised by a passage in Richard Lanham's 1983 Analyzing Prose, excerpted in Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan's anthology Literary Theory as "Tacit Persuasion Patterns." Somehow it jumped out in a new way this term, and it sparked an interesting discussion of how student blogs can work to …
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From formalism to rhetoric
To open discussion today, I want to start with a quote from Brooks' "The Formalist Critics" that seems to offer an excellent transition into a useful consideration of rhetorical analysis: Literature is not inimical to ideas. It thrives upon ideas but does not present ideas patly and neatly. It involves them with the "recalcitrant stuff …
ProfHacker: Teaching Carnival 5.05
Teaching Carnival 5.05 By Prof. Hacker JANUARY 9, 2012 ORIGINAL POST [January’s Teaching Carnival was compiled by Tonya Howe, Assistant Professor of English at Marymount University. You can reach her via email or on Twitter. ProfHacker has become the permanent home of the Teaching Carnival, so each month you can return for a snapshot of the most recent thoughts on teaching …
Working Assignment: Digital Gomatos Collection
This March at ASECS, I'm presenting my work on the development of a collaborative digital assignment for graduate students (which could also work for advanced undergraduates) organized around the creation of items in an Omeka collection. The idea is to work together to define and populate a subcollection of materials housed in our small special …
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Formalism, Using Blogs in Class
I just received the MLA edition on teaching contemporary theory to undergraduates I ordered in preparation for my courses this term, and on a quick browse, it looks less useful than I thought it would be--that is, more theoretical. Which is not bad, but telling.... Why do we assume that if a text like this …
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