Tweets- halavais: RT @FakeAPStylebook: Remember that the word "synesthesia" is spelled with a silent freshly mowed grass odor.
- halavais: RT @brainpicker: Trailer for Last Call, the first interactive horror movie where audience can interact with protagonist http://ow.ly/1gzPm
- halavais: Not cool enough for #sxsw this year. But *am* strategizing for chaperoning some grad students next year.
- halavais: These notes, taken by @TreborS when I was a guest in his classroom, should look familiar to former students: http://is.gd/aeoq1
- halavais: Quick chat makes people unhappy, while deep conversations make them happy. ∴ Twitter = Sad. http://is.gd/a9tgg
- halavais: RT @willrich45: Double wow...the #netp actually refers to students as "networked learners." I'm feeling faint.
- halavais: I am blue: http://splash.clubdevo.com/colorstudy/
- halavais: RT @tombarrett: The Pacific Northwest tree octopus (Octopus paxarbolis) can be found in temperate rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula h ...
- halavais: @laughingsquid I've always enjoyed Mattelart & Mattelart, as a brief supplemental overview.
- halavais: New post on the future of ebooks: http://alex.halavais.net/ipad-goes-back-to-the-future
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 [...]
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 enough: [...]
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 providing [...]
Public Spaces + The September Project