August 2008
2 posts
MySpace or Facebook: That Is the Question →
Who remembers that in our techstitute in July, perhaps ever so fleetingly, a conversation meandered toward the question of “If one were to have a social networking site page, do professional adults…
More Still Skeptical →
Thinking about the connectivity angle and the EdTalk conversation Wednesday night, I’m wondering about the issue of e-conversation or e-feedback. In our July tech institute, we barely had time to…
Still Skeptical →
Continuing to learn about technology, this week at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, a week-long “Storycentric” workshop for K-12 teachers about film and story, my skepticism survives….
July 2008
27 posts
Missing you all... →
…okay, honestly, it was no problem filling the hours from 9-2 last week, what with my favorite 2 1/2-year-old in our cabin (trucks! fire engines! sound-enabled fire-engine puzzles! yesss!!), but…
My tumblr project →
I focused my tumblr project on the question of how more effectively to help my academic writing students find and articulate a research question that is individual and meaningful. It has seven parts…
The exactly appropriate day to read this poem... →
THE DAY LADY DIED By FRANK O’HARA It is 12:20 in New York a Friday
three days after Bastille Day, yes
it is 1959, and I go get a shoeshine
because I will get off the 4:19 in East Hampton
at 7:15 and…
Spending the day writing a research paper with...
Co-writing via Skype chat is not on my syllabus...yet.
Musings about discoveries, thinking about Henry...
Watch
“…whenever we use language, whether written or oral, we are joining an...”
– Elbow, Peter and Pat Belanoff. “Ruminations and Theory: the Ongoing Conversation.” A Community of Writers: A Workshop Course in Writing. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995: 354-55.
WatchOn the night my Academic Writing students turned in their research papers, “complete and ready for grading,” I asked them to write and then talk about what the process of completing and turning in their papers (all drafts attached) felt like. Here are some of their responses.
“The essence of man is a question.” —Martin Heidegger”
– qtd. by Milan Kundera. “Preface.” The Unbearable Lightness of Being. New York: Harper & Row, 1984.
“More than one philosopher has noted that asking the right questions is often...”
– Elbow, Peter and Pat Belanoff. “Ruminations and Theory: The Ongoing Conversation.” A Community of Writers: A Workshop Course in Writing. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995: 354-55.
“[Matisse] said his portraits uncovered much that he could not have suspected at...”
– Spurling, Hilary. “Preface.” The Unknown Matisse. New York: Knopf, 1988: xix.
“…The essayist wears proudly the confusion of an independent soul trying to...”
– Lopate, Phillip. “In Search of the Centaur: The Essay-Film.” Totally Tenderly Tragically: Essays and Criticism from a Lifelong Love Affair with the Movies. New York: anchor/Doubleday, 1998: 282.
What I Hope My Students Learn about Academic...
In my fifteen-week Academic Writing course, tomorrow will be the fourteenth class, and students will write an in-class essay summarizing what they’ve tried that has worked for them, their personal summaries of the course. I could phrase their essay question “What have you learned about academic writing” though its current iteration is “Which writing process and documented...
"Seeing Academic Writing with a New 'I'" by... →
On my mind... →
…is the time-space conundrum. Ha. That sounds pretty impossible. But as many things as I’ll be busy with next week (little 2 1/2-year-old Avery Wen-Er, arriving late Wednesday night ready to tuck…
Two Too Noo Tools →
“Sneaking away” just now to check email and then mapquest the location of the meeting I’ll head toward after we finish our workshop today, my mapquesting reminds me: once upon a time, this was new…
New York City Writing Project Helps Teen... →
A Voice That is Heard: Living the Writing Project... →
“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.”
– Mark Twain (via insomniatic)
The New Yorker →
NYT > NYTimes.com Home →
How this impacts on my thinking as a teacher →
The first two weeks of this techstitute have been thoughtfully paced, with not quite (never quite) enough but a regular amount of f2f discussion to hear everyone’s connections and questions. A…
“Yet at the same time Matisse was acutely aware of something that art historians...”
– Flam, Jack. Matisse: the Man and his Art 1869-1918. Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, 1986: 12.
TenQs about myself, about the world
Is my eyesight damaged from excessive computer use?
Is it permanently endangered?
How can I strengthen the research-question-finding component of my academic writing course?
What experiences are missing from my syllabus?
How can I respond more technifficiently to the writing students submit in the online section of academic writing?
How can I be as productive every day as I’d like to...