My first meeting of Literary Theory and Practice is today at 12:30, and I'm super excited about it! I've taught the class once before, using the same basic materials, and this term I'm fleshing it out a bit more with some excerpts from primary theoretical sources. FSG also recently republished the collected poems of Elizabeth …
Teaching Carnival 5.05 (in progress!)
At the end of November, the UC Davis pepper spray fiasco dramatized the intersection of politics, student life, and academia, and several bloggers considered the place of the OWS movement in the classroom. Jay Dolmage thinks--and writes--about how OWS “has been shaped through unique genres of writing and visual rhetoric,” focusing on sousveillance and the …
Oxford conversion of ECCO
Oxford conversion of ECCO texts, freely available as ePUBs! Joy! There's no real finding guide, and you won't get the facsimile pages, but it's a happy day for those of us without institutional access to Eighteenth-Century Collections Online. Use CTRL-F to find authors, titles; download the Firefox ePUB addon for easy viewing.
How to Regularize Good Discussion Participation
So, I've been thinking about my courses for Fall 2011 (yes, I know, the summer's just started...), and given the energy residue from THATCamp CHNM, I wanted to get some ideas jotted down in a more accessible space than my moleskine. There was a lot of discussion about backchannels this weekend, and while I'm thinking …
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Better Googling – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Better Googling May 23, 2011, 8:00 am By George Williams One of the greatest strengths of the world’s most widely used Internet search engine is also one of its greatest weaknesses: comprehensiveness. For example, a search using the keyword poverty results in almost 90,000,000 results, which is far too many for any individual person to …
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