Category Archives: School

Blowing Out the Corneas

3/9/2010 – 2:05 pm

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Right, so I’m taking a brief moment during a baby nap to post what I’ve been up to. Which is reading.
Since my last post I’ve banged through two excellent collections published by the MacArthur Foundation for Digital Media and Learning, specifically The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning and Digital Youth, [...]

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Reading and Thinking While Playing Fallout 3

2/26/2010 – 7:16 pm

I’m almost done with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of the Four, which is his second novel that features Sherlock Holmes. I had a free trial for Audible and couldn’t find anything I really wanted (sadly), and I’ve been thinking about doing some detective/noir reading. I also wanted the most bang for the buck [...]

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Some Humuments

2/23/2010 – 11:24 am

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As part of the poetry unit in my Intro to Creative Writing class we take a look at some examples of visual poetry. This includes some calligrams, some collage poetry, and Tom Phillips’ remarkable A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel. Wikipedia gives a

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Pedagogical Musings and the Return of the Champs League!

2/16/2010 – 2:32 pm

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Yes, so I’ve been reading and thinking and teaching. Quite often I’m reading about teaching or thinking about teaching and even reading about thinking. Most of what I’ve been reading (and thinking) has to do with my prelim area of digital pedagogy, or how to effectively incorporate computers into instruction. The strong [...]

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Plodding Away

2/8/2010 – 12:58 pm

Man, the start of the spring semester is a slog (and full of alliteration). I find critiquing my creative writing students’ poetry to be one of the most time consuming tasks on the planet; I also give a lot of assignments to my research writing class early in the semester, so between reading and commenting [...]

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Yet Another Format Change, Spurs’ True Colors, and Reflections on XBox 360 Games

1/23/2010 – 4:27 pm

Awhile back I changed the name of the site from “The Always Insightful Insights of Trent Hergenrader” (a name I never particularly liked) to “A Propensity for Unstable Realities, ” which is another name I didn’t particularly like. My goal at that time was to create a more professional-looking site and take it away from [...]

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2,010 Updates

1/13/2010 – 11:02 pm

Geez, two weeks since I last posted an entry? Shows you where blogging is on my list of priorities. So, what have I been doing?

Reading, mostly. I finished my ninth book in three weeks tonight. If you’re interested to see what I’ve been reading, count backwards on this list (or everything between Gordon Henry’s The [...]

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2009 – A Retrospective

12/31/2009 – 6:30 pm

2009 flew past, didn’t it? Quite a bit better than 2008 I must say, and I’m looking forward to what 2010 has in store.

Well, first things first. 2009 was definitely, beyond a shadow of a doubt, dominated by the one we call G-Man, G-Money, the gooch, the goon, Mr. Moo, and every so often we [...]

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English Graduate Studies – A Very Short Introduction

12/18/2009 – 11:51 am

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Oxford University Press has a series of books called Very Short Introductions and they’re quite good. Two years ago in a class I took on visual narratives we started the course by reading Dada and Surrealism – A Very Short Introduction. In a separate course, another instructor strongly recommended we read the VSI [...]

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Big, Big Weekend in Football Action and Picks

11/27/2009 – 12:07 pm

Whoa Nelly, it’s a big one this weekend. The Merseyside Derby, Ars*nal versus Chelski, and Villa versus Spurs. These games are big for different reasons. Everton need a win to move into a more comfortable spot in the table, and Liverpool need a win to get a foot back in the top four spots. [...]

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