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Tweets
- @lrainie As it is, each time I start a class session with "Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin..." fewer and fewer recognize it. 2 days ago
- @lrainie It's hard for me to do anything menacingly, and I'd try it for a classroom entrance, but I suspect the reference would be lost... 2 days ago
- @lrainie That is my new goal! Channel Omar more often :). 2 days ago
- @lrainie Reducible in part to "who said it wasn't already all a game"? :) 2 days ago
- Word or two length predictions for social media game-changers over next decade? Me: Goggles, Badges, Social Sensors #gamechangers 2 days ago
- One more on the "higher ed is newspapers" meme. David Brooks: http://t.co/bUsz8sXA 2 days ago
- My students know I am not a fan of Flash. Rare exception: http://t.co/1ElX1Q8E 3 days ago
- More updates...
Archives
Monthly Archives: July 2004
Incitement
I wonder how far the Alabama ban extends.
Convention, blogging, yada-yada
Hey, did you hear? Apparently there are bloggers at the convention. Oh, you did hear? That’s good. Went to a party last week and managed to correctly identify a guest’s accent as Georgian. She noted that such an ability, along with an academic study of blogging, meant I “should be appearing in an Us Magazine [...]
The September Project: An Invitation to Get Involved
this is not alex, it’s david silver. alex: thank you for letting us in and thanks for lending your brains throughout. michael berube rules. his blog entry, written with soul, got Chuck Tryon and E. David Morgen to organize something, offline, in atlanta, on saturday, september 11. beautiful. does anyone have a contact with the [...]
September People
Just a quick heads up for my six regular readers. I have not developed a multiple personality disorder. I’ve invited David Silver and Sarah Washburn of The September Project to make use of this blog in whatever way they see fit. I’ve posted on the September Project before, but an overview may also be found [...]
Zatoichi & Bombay Dreams
Last weekend, I had the chance to see a Broadway show in the guise of a movie and a movie that cries out to be made into a Broadway show. On Friday, after a visit to a local churrascaria, Jamie and I went to see Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new Bombay Dreams. The premise is simple [...]
Re-theorizing the core class
I have a love-hate relationship with syllabi. I am envious of teachers who feel comfortable assigning a single text and “teaching the text.” In some ways I wish I could do this without being bored to death. I have a feeling at least some students would thank me for doing so. I am charged with [...]
Public Spaces + The September Project