Just when you thought Canada was a nice and friendly place, here is McSweeney’s list of “Reasons to Fear Canada”
English 005 podcast now available at iTunes!
The first podcast for my English 005 class is now available at iTunes. It’s a short test podcast that I did to make certain the feed was working, but I’ll be following it up in a day or two with a longer podcast describing the course. I’m hoping to make that podcast a chaptered one [...]
Paris is my kind of town….
Caught the link to this AP story over at the Quill and Quire blog. How great is this? PARIS – Readers craving Homer, Baudelaire or Lewis Carroll in the middle of the night can get a quick fix at one of the French capital’s five newly installed book vending machines. [. . .] Stocked with [...]
Here’s the book I’m hoping they don’t choose to read this fall
One of the things I’m doing this fall in my contemporary Canadian literature course is having the students propose and, by election, select the final book that we will study in the course. The great thing about this exercise is that it will oblige them to start looking to see what’s out there. The other [...]
“Technology and the Pseudo-Intimacy of the Classroom”: online versus face-to-face teaching
Via a link on someone else’s blog that I forgot to note, I came across this interesting interview with Gerald Graff, author of Professing Literature (1987), a book I like a great deal, and Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind (2003), a book I’ve been meaning to take a look [...]
How’s this for a national symbol?
Mona and I spent a great weekend in Ottawa so that I could do some research and preparation for my TAP class’ trip to Ottawa in October. We visited many of the most important sites and I snapped a bunch of digital photos that I’ll be using as part of a chaptered podcast about our [...]
iPods in the classroom
I am happy to announce officially that in my TAP class this fall UVM will be lending all of the students 20g color iPods. This is the result of a $5000 Instructional Incentive Grant I received earlier this spring from the Center for Teaching and Learning, which is enough for iPods and iTalk microphones for [...]
The Dr. Is In….
If you’re looking for some help with blogging at UVM, I’m happy to help. In fact, later this week I’ll be putting in a few hours at the Center for Teaching and Learning offices in the Bailey/Howe Library to do exactly that. Here are the times at which I will be there and the slots [...]