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Keeping Your Classroom C.R.I.S.P.: Unity Of Purpose As An Organizing Principle, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Hal Blythe

Are you and your millennial students losing your focus in the classroom? Here's a solution that works.

Popes In The Pizza: Analyzing Activity Reports To Create And Sustain A Strategic Plan, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe, E,J. Keeley, Ben Forsyth

Hal Blythe

This article presents a practical methodology for creating and sustaining strategic planning, the task analysis. Utilizing our Teaching & Learning Center Strategic Plan as a model, we demonstrate how working with a weekly status report provides a comprehensive listing of detail necessary to analyze and revise the plan. The new methodology is accurate, thorough, on-going, and flexible.

The Writing Community: A New Model For The Creative Writing Classroom, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Hal Blythe

After creating a taxonomy of classroom approaches to the teaching of creative writing, the authors discuss a current practice they have employed, the writing community. The authors detail its success, place it within current pedagogical research into small-group and team-based learning, and suggest possible applications to allied fields.

Keeping Your Classroom C.R.I.S.P.: Unity Of Purpose As An Organizing Principle, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Charlie Sweet

Are you and your millennial students losing your focus in the classroom? Here's a solution that works.

International Terrorism:Role ,Responsibility And Operation Of Media Channles, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr

Ratnesh Dwivedi

"Terrorism" is a term that cannot be given a stable defintion. Or rather, it can, but to do so forstalls any attempt to examine the major feature of its relation to television in the contemporary world. As the central public arena for organising ways of picturing and talking about social and political life, TV plays a pivotal role in the contest between competing defintions, accounts and explanations of terrorism. Which term is used in any particular context is inextricably tied to judgemements about the legitimacy of the action in question and of the political system against which it is directed. …

The Value Of Man, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

No abstract provided.

Martinalia, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

No abstract provided.

Try To Change The Mutilated World, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

No abstract provided.

Berkeley Rep Does Arabs, Mojgan Behmand

Mojgan Behmand

Siting Speech: The Politics Of Imagining The Other In Meera Syal’S Anita And Me, Leila Neti

Leila Neti

No abstract provided.

Thoughts On Copyediting, Outsourcing, And The Technical Communication Profession, Russell Willerton

Russell Willerton

This discussion reminded me that technical communication is one of the many facets of the global economy, and that technical communication tasks can be done from any spot on the globe. Wherever we find ourselves, we must demonstrate and articulate the value we bring to our employers and their consumers. Standing still will ensure we get left behind.

Informal Catechesis And The Hereford Mappa Mundi, Daniel Terkla

Daniel Terkla

No abstract provided.

Early Modern Digital Scholarship & Deep: Database Of Early English Playbooks, Zachary Lesser, Alan B. Farmer

Zachary Lesser

This paper discusses recent trends in digital resources for early modern literary studies, as well as the implications of these resources for research and scholarship. In addition to comparing the use by scholars of print reference works and online databases, the essay analyzes the recent shift from 'first-generation' digital resources, such as the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) and Early English Books Online (EEBO), to newer 'second-generation' resources like DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks. Rather than strive for comprehensive coverage of early modern print culture, as ESTC and EEBO do, these 'second-generation' sites typically aim for in-depth coverage of …

Bazaar Justice: Framing Citizenship And Capabilities In An Online Community, Adrianne Wadewitz, Tamsin Lloyd

Adrianne Wadewitz

No abstract provided.

Popes In The Pizza: Analyzing Activity Reports To Create And Sustain A Strategic Plan, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe, E,J. Keeley, Ben Forsyth

Charlie Sweet

This article presents a practical methodology for creating and sustaining strategic planning, the task analysis. Utilizing our Teaching & Learning Center Strategic Plan as a model, we demonstrate how working with a weekly status report provides a comprehensive listing of detail necessary to analyze and revise the plan. The new methodology is accurate, thorough, on-going, and flexible.

Playing For His Side: Kipling’S ‘Regulus,’ Corporal Punishment, And Classical Education, Emily A. Mcdermott

Emily A. McDermott

Rudyard Kipling’s short story, “Regulus,” revolves around the flogging of a student who has let loose a mouse in the drawing classroom of a turn-of-the-century British public school. The first part of the story is devoted to a fifth-form Latin class’s line-by-line explication of Horace’s fifth Roman ode, in which the story’s title character is presented as a paradigm of manly virtue; the remainder is given over to narration of the mouse-miscreant’s progress toward punishment, in thematic counterpoint to the Regulus exemplum. Within that idiosyncratic framework, the story tackles as ambitious a topic as the purposes of education, with particular …

Wiki-Writing: Collaborative Writing On And Off The ‘Pedia, Adrianne Wadewitz

Adrianne Wadewitz

No abstract provided.

Political And Cultural Battles In A Postcolonial Picture Book From Wales, Petros Panaou

Petros Panaou

Nationalistic projects and bloody conflicts around the world testify to the nation's determination to fight the forces that threaten its sovereignty. The present discussion reads Cantre'r Gwaelod (1996) – a Welsh book from the European Picture Book Collection – as an attempt to defend the idea of national identity. The colonial and postcolonial cultural battles that have been taking place in Wales, and elsewhere, for the duration of centuries have not left children, or children's literature, unaffected. When the Welsh picture book is situated in its local environment, it becomes apparent that it advocates resistance to `foreign invasion'. The waves …

What I Didn’T Do On My Summer Vacation, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.

Stegner’S Sensational Pedagogy: Regional Literacy For Mind And Body, Tara Penry

Tara Penry

No abstract provided.

Tears, Fears, And The Dreaded Five-Paragraph Essay: Encouraging Your Students To Write In English, Susan Adams

Susan Adams

Presentation at the TESOL Regional Conference, May 2008.

Body Doubles, Babel's Voices: Katie Mitchell's Iphigenia At Aulis And The Theatre Of Sacrifice, Kim Solga

Kim Solga

What happens to a body when circumstance demands it enact its own forgetting? What reaction in turn does a body in the process of violent self-erasure prompt in its spectators? These and related questions propel my investigation of Katie Mitchell's 2004 National Theatre production of Euripedes' Iphigenia at Aulis. Mitchell's chilling representation of Iphigenia's final moments, during which the young girl speaks with apparently patriotic fervour her willingness to be murdered for her nation's sake, embeds the very loss that such a performance of sacrifice typically elides. The result: two bodies collide on stage before our eyes - the compliant, …

Love’S Time And The Reader: Ethical Effects Of Nachtraglichkeit In Toni Morrison’S Love, Jean Wyatt

Jean Wyatt

No abstract provided.

Bisclavret, Linda Marie Zaerr, Corey Mcknight, Gail Vaughan, Aage Nielsen

Linda Marie Zaerr

The 12the century lai Bisclavret (The Werewolf) will be performed in dramatic narrative and period instrument performance by Boise’s new interdisciplinary Medieval performance group, Virelai des Bois. Bisclavret (The Werewolf) is a lai (poetic narrative used by Northern French poets and storytellers) by 12th century author Marie de France. The story will be told in Middle and Modern English narrative with music on period instruments such as the doucaine (Medieval double reed instrument), vielle (Medieval fiddle) and recorder with countertenor voice.

The Line, The Crack, And The Possibility Of Architecture: Figure, Ground, Feminist Performance, Kim Solga

Kim Solga

How and where do architecture and performance collide? Theatre studies has been, over the course of the last decade, increasingly interested in the relationship between stage and space; that inter- est, however, has primarily been figured by marrying theories of human geography with studies of theatrical performance. “The Line, the Crack, and the Possibility of Architecture” asks what it might mean to explore the spaces of performance through the lens of another plastic art—the art of building—and investigates what the discourses of architecture theory, both classical and (post)modern, might have to say to those of us who study the vicissitudes …

Harry Potter, Censorship, The Librarian, And The Book, Mary Freier

Mollie Freier

No abstract provided.

The Jerry Springer Show: A Viewer‘S Final Thought, Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

Part of the "Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, and Personal Narrative" presentation series.

Coming To See Myself As A Vernacular Intellectual, Peter Elbow

Peter Elbow

A short essay taken from remarks at the annual 2007 convention on getting the Exemplar Award. I look back over my career as an ongoing attempt to democratize writing--operating from the stance of a "vernacular intellectual" (a concept coined by Grant Farret).

Have Fun With Poetry, Sugeng Purwanto

Sugeng Purwanto

This unpublished book on 'poetry studies' may be of some use to those who are new to English Literature. Written in simple English, it is particularly aimed at helping foreign students of English to somehow learn about poetry. Of course, it is not meant for detailed studies of poetic works. Better still, it is a very simple introduction to poetry studies.

Latino, Juan, 1516-1606, Chukwuma Azuonye

Chukwuma Azuonye

A bio-bibliographical profile of an African exile of Guinea (West African) origins who flourished in Spain in the 16th century where he was a university professor, composed heroic and epic poetry in classical Latin, and was well-connected in Spanish aristocratic circles into which he married.