metablogging
As I mentioned in this post, ever since I started the 4/4 teaching load I’ve neglected my blog, offering only embedded video and a quick comment or two and rarely a “long thought.” This semester is different though because I’m finally requiring UW-Stout students to blog, specifically my graduate students and my 1 directed study [...]
i can haz kitteh?
All week I’ve had a list of stuff to blog about, primarily how I’ve been teaching with and talking about blogs to undergrad and grad students, but a grant application distracted me. And then I met this guy. In brief, my fabulous friend Fabulous Lorraine found this lil guy Friday morning while walking the dog. [...]
tv on DVD
A major benefit to being done with the dissertation is that I can pay more attention to pop culture. Otherwise stated, I don’t have to feel guilty for watching television. I’ve already mentioned my love of Don Draper and MadMen, but there are all sorts of shows that I’ve recently discovered. Thanks to DVDs and [...]
speaking of dance videos…
Why didn’t this kind of stuff happen when I lived in Boston? See here and here for additional examples of Sound of Music-related flash mobs. Even if Julie Andrews doesn’t know about this phenomenon, Mashable does! And, somehow, all of that reminds me of this from 2007, which Henry Jenkins eloquently discussed in his post, [...]
video driven evolution of skills
I’ve been teaching for 1 week now, and much of my planning and reading for my ENG 101 class has been related to literacy, particularly “What it means to be literate” nowadays. Teaching on a laptop campus has its challenges, but the best part is projection in every classroom. That way, I can show videos [...]
back to school; back to blogging
In case you haven’t noticed, ever since I started my job at UW-Stout in 2008 I’ve hardly blogged. The dissertation [on blogs of all things] consumed me and even though I defended in March, formatted in April, skipped the Tampa graduation in May, and finally received the diploma in the mail in July, I took [...]
GAGA
From LADY GAGA I have had the great fortune to see Lady Gaga’s Monster Ball twice now. Once last December in NOLA and then this week in St. Paul. [Thanks again @fablor!] Both times were amazing and I truly love her music, but despite her appeals to her fans AKA little monsters to be themselves [...]