One of my heroes! The real deal.
Web 2.0 Storytelling: A New Genre
27-Jul-09
Web 2.0 Storytelling: Emergence of a New Genre
EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 43, no. 6 (November/December 2008)
Fabulous article and collection of links.
Stanley Fish’s article on the controversy.
via Henry Louis Gates: Déjà Vu All Over Again – Stanley Fish Blog – NYTimes.com.
I think of a novel as wandering through a forest. You’re supposed to get lost, and make sense of the layout, until another novel/forest comes along. Oates says it’s important to look at the novel by the big picture.
A novel’s strategy reveals itself in structure and process, not in isolated passages or speeches, however striking. Any complex work that aspires to a statement about something larger than the experiences it depicts must be understood as a proposition on two levels: that of the immediate, or present time (the shared fiction of the “immediate” as it is evidently experienced by both participant and reader, simultaneously), and that of the historical (in which the fiction of the simultaneous experience of participant and reader is dissolved, and the reader emerges, ideally, at least, with a god’s-eye view of the novelist’s design).
Poem of the Day
22-Jul-09
If You Forget Me
I want you to know
one thing.
You know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch
near the fire
the impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of the log,
everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals,
were little boats
that sail
toward those isles of yours that wait for me.
Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.
If suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.
If you think it long and mad,
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
and you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember
that on that day,
at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
to seek another land.
But
if each day,
each hour,
you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
climbs up to your lips to seek me,
ah my love, ah my own,
in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine.
Quote of the Day: Sarah Palin: Poet?
20-Jul-09
“A great poet needs to leave open the door between the conscious and unconscious; Sarah Palin has removed her door from its hinges.”
A lovely collection of Palin’s erudition, at the link.
LiveBinders – Making search useful
20-Jul-09
Stephen Lester recommended this site, a nifty tool for organizing research and/or curriculum.
Your 3-Ring Binder for the Web
Gathering information for a project or client?
Where are you going to put it?
Quickly and simply organize your finds into binders.
- Save time
- Keep organized
- Look great
Best of all, it’s free!
Just part of his trigger list:
* Whose input do we need?
* Whose input could we use?
* Has anything like this been done before?
* What mistakes can we learn from?
* What successes can we learn from?
* What resources do we have?
* What resources might we need?
via Project Management Tip: Project Planning Checklist By David Allen.
Computers Disrupt
18-Jul-09
Great article on Fluid Learning and how disruptive computers can be.
Our greatest fear, in bringing computers into the classroom, is that we teachers and instructors and lecturers will lose control of the classroom, lose touch with the students, lose the ability to make a difference. The computer is ultimately disruptive. It offers greater authority than any instructor, greater resources than any lecturer, and greater reach than any teacher.