Posted by: parrishka on: January 27, 2006
poking around on the website of the guy who did the grandaddy video takes me to another project of his, 100 objects to Represent University.
i post it here because I’ve been reading up on Freirian (sp?) models of the composition classroom, and this project could be a powerful and very playful way to have students [...]
Posted by: parrishka on: January 27, 2006
some dancing letters appealing to a 30 something’s sense of nostalgia:
this music video for the grandaddy song “jed’s other poem,” created on an apple II.
my grand daddy taught me a bit o’ coding in basic when I was 12 and we had an Apple II in the basement where he and I would alternately retreat [...]
Posted by: parrishka on: January 26, 2006
and then, we realize that perhaps it *is* possible to teach grade 11s something about composition in 4 months.
I marked one set of final projects last night (18 down, 140 to go). Most struggled, but there was at least a sense of what they were supposed to do creeping in and around there. And then… [...]
Posted by: parrishka on: January 25, 2006
so all those feelings of lightness I was experiencing yesterday went out the freakin window, freakily, after I entered the term marks into the freakin ass marks program the board in all its wisdowm decided to adopt even though it is hopeless underdeveloped for macs which means i must do my mark entry at school [...]
Posted by: parrishka on: January 24, 2006
last full day of classes for semester one. Got all my term marks done (mostly). Nothing to do but mark the summative projects and exams.
dum dee dum dee dum.
what is this strange feeling of weightlessness?
It’s not like I have nothing to do- 80 odd pieces of marking X 2 between now and next monday.
but i [...]
Posted by: parrishka on: January 24, 2006
There are at least two reasons why the situation of poetry matters to the entire intellectual community. The first involves the role of language in a free society. Poetry is the art of using words charged with their utmost meaning. A society whose intellectual leaders lose the skill to shape, appreciate, and understand the power [...]
Posted by: parrishka on: January 22, 2006
“I don’t want to lose this anger. ‘Reconciliation’ is a word that makes me want to vomit an ocean of blood. “Conflict resolution” is a phrase that makes me want to step on the heads of the snakes that hiss it. I sit in my living room so I can see all the colors that [...]
Posted by: parrishka on: January 21, 2006
sometime, somewhere, ( it WILL come to me), I read a fascinating article about a study of the way that boys and girls play computer games. the study revealed that girls are just as interested in playing computer games as boys are- but that they play the games so differently, that in a mixed social [...]
Posted by: parrishka on: January 19, 2006
after what spiraled into a frustrating dynamic in my grade ten gifted class, I found new hope and purpose in playing to their interests, which happily coincided with my strengths- we went cyborg.
after showing them cronenberg’s existenz, and discussing its implications re: subjectivity, the nature of reality, nature vs civilization, etc
I had them for their [...]
Posted by: parrishka on: January 19, 2006
oh my.
there’s enough food for thought in the archives of Vitia to keep me going all semester- and this guy is still actively posting.
back when I was actively working on my M. Ed, (apparently I have until august of this year to finish it), I learned about the four C’s conferences (composition, computing, college? something, [...]
