I’ve moved
Posted by ungooglable on July 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment
For all you non-existent followers out there, you can now non-follow me at majoringinmeta.commons.gc.cuny.edu. Maybe not as mellifluous off the tongue, but way snazzier and more plugged in. And it’ll be even better once I get around to restoring the banner art I’d chosen…
Category course-related · Tagged with self-justification, transcendence
more adventures in webcomics
Posted by ungooglable on March 9, 2009 · 1 Comment
Category course-related · Tagged with posthumanity, webcomics
i’m sure there’s an easier way
Posted by ungooglable on December 20, 2008 · 1 Comment
I had a slight level increase when I realized that I could treat blogrolls a little like Works Cited lists…
Category course-related · Tagged with efficiency, experience, lists, methods
sipping from the firehose
Posted by ungooglable on December 17, 2008 · Leave a Comment
For the past several days, I’ve been trying to cram my cranium full of thoughts on the use of interactive/information technology in writing classes. I think I must have stuffed it over-full.
Category course-related · Tagged with efficiency, malfunctions, metaphor, reading, time
Posted by ungooglable on December 3, 2008 · 8 Comments
Ungooglable is going to try to get off his midnight rant kick
Category course-related
Gee Whiz
Posted by ungooglable on December 3, 2008 · 4 Comments
Maybe it’s that I play a lot of video games, but on nearly every page of James Paul Gee’s What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy, I found myself underlining happily, writing “Yes!” in the margins, or – often – simply smiling at the fact that someone in the Establishment was … Continue reading →
Category course-related · Tagged with curriculum design, experience, games, metaphor
queery
Posted by ungooglable on November 26, 2008 · 1 Comment
What do we make of Lessig’s use of the verbal “queering”? cf. Free Culture 167, in a critique of the war on drugs: “When you add together the burdens on the criminaljustice system, the desperation of generations of kids whose only real economic opportunities are as drug warriors, the queering of constitutional protections because of … Continue reading →
Category course-related · Tagged with reading
still reading, but
Posted by ungooglable on November 26, 2008 · Leave a Comment
it strikes me that Lessig’s Free Culture reads very much like an oral presentation: many call-backs to previous ideas, often worded in very similar ways, and especially many repeats of his central claims or meta-claims. cf. page 139: “my point is not that the derivative right is unjustified. My aim just now is much narrower: … Continue reading →
Category course-related · Tagged with metatext, oral rhetorics, reading, written rhetorics
crystal’s chrysalis
Posted by ungooglable on November 19, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Apologies for the late, brief post. Schedule willing tomorrow, I’ll update and expand this. I just want to say how – is frustrating the word? perhaps alienating? – it’s been, reading Crystal’s analysis of “Netspeak.” He just doesn’t seem to be describing, for the most part, the way I interact with most of my friends … Continue reading →
Category course-related · Tagged with rants, reading, writing
questions
Posted by ungooglable on November 4, 2008 · 1 Comment
1. What are Stein’s motives, I wonder, in searching for a continued role for editors and publishers, and in postulating a professional class of taggers (a job also presaged by Vannevar Bush)? Is it merely reasonable to ask, as he does, What is the role of the publisher and the editor? Do the answers to … Continue reading →
Category course-related · Tagged with childhood, publishing, reading, role-playing
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