November 23, 2008
How do you teach Web 2.0? With elit, of course. This post offers an elit work for each tool.A number of my colleagues (myself included) attempt to teach courses around Web 2.0 technologies. The idea is that if you can just get students to blog, bookmark, twitter, annotate, wiki, wink, and aggregate, they’ll be ready for the bold new world of networked software applications– building on their existing propensity for social networking, facebooking, IMing….What these skill and tool-based courses miss is an opportunity to enrich this education with some electronic literature.
Elit 2.0 (a guide to literary works on social software) at WRT: Writer Response Theory
And here are are a few more suggestions from the comments section at Mark Marino’s Writer Response Theory:
Twitter:
1. s[p]erver[se]_: 404 poetry_ [2007]
[also in: http://www.youownmenow.net/exhibition.php]
2. [started today] New Media Scotland’s new Twitterist-in-residence [2008]
http://twitter.com/mediascot
3. _Poetic Game Interventions [V.1]_ entitled _Twittermixed Litterature [2007]
http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/elit/elit_software.html#mez
http://groups.google.com/group/leanmp/browse_thread/thread/a0fd5a15177c964d
Blogging:
1. cross.ova.ing ][4rm.blog.2.log][
http://netwurker.livejournal.com/ [since 2003]
2. ______dis[ap]posable_
http://disapposable.blogspot.com/ [2007]
Facebook:
1. _Tag Platform Poetry_ [2007]
[A Poetic/Social Network/ MMO/Visual Mashup where character screenshots of
of World of Warcraft Characters are imported into the Facebook. The photos in the respective albums are then tagged with poetic descriptions in the areas normally reserved for traditional photo labelling. These description lines are then aggregated at the bottom of each album to create a type of cross-plaform tagged poetry.]
Logos:
Antisocial Notworking: http://project.arnolfini.org.uk/projects/2008/antisocial/index.php
November 11, 2008
Power Moby-Dick, the Online Annotation — Chapter 1
Moby Dick annotated in a very accessible way. Incredibly useful full-text search, extra resources for students, wallpaper, and lots of extras.
May 25, 2008
Dear All…
Jeff Fearnside has accepted a position to teach at Prescott College (in Prescott, Arizona), where he will also become the managing editor of their really fine literary journal Alligator Juniper (winner of the 2000 and 2003 AWP Prize for undergraduate literary magazines). Way to go, Jeff!
P.S. WKU writers will, well, be sending a piece or two the way of Alligator Juniper!
April 17, 2008
From Dale,
Dear All…please mark your calendars for 7 pm on May 1 for the
FANTASTIC gala to be held in support of Rise Over Run–check out the attached news
release to see what I mean!
Good Afternoon Creativewriting-list!
My name is Monique Gooch and I am Rise Over Run’s PR Coordinator. We have scheduled an event for May 1st and would like for everyone to be
in attendance! I am attaching a press release with this e-mail.
Thank you so much for your support of ROR! Have a great day!
~Monique Gooch~
VP of Membership Services
January 22, 2008
From Dale Rigby via the Creativewriting listserv:
Per a welcome back, I want to share the good news that two WKU undergraduate poets have
work that will be appearing in the next edition of GRAB-A-NICKEL:
Corey Bewley, “The Smell of Mothballs” & “Classical Music”
Sarah Durr, “What You Will See”
Also from Dale,
The following writing students have had one or more works accepted for
presentation at the the
International Sigma Tau Delta Convention this spring.
1. Ed Rogers–”Frequency”–a collection of poems.
2. Renee Davidson–”After Great Pain” (drama) and “Rearranging Beauty”
(creative non-fiction)
3. Bobby Deignan–”After Charlie” (fiction) and “Hawthorne’s ‘The Celestial Railroad’: (critical essay)
4. Brooke Shafar–”Spring Cleaning” (fiction)
Like with the pic of Yao Ming on the cover of the current Newsweek, you could say that we are fast becoming a university with, yep, just as our PR folks remind us, “international reach”!
All painful puns the responsibility of Rigby and not the management.
November 13, 2007
This note from Dale Rigby:
Dear All…
Everybody who submitted was a winner. The judges choose the
following three
submitters for the top prizes this Sunday at our 11th Annual Jim Wayne
Miller
Celebration of Writing:
1st place: Cody Tucker
2nd place: Corey Bewley
3rd place: Bobby Deignan
November 12, 2007
If you haven’t already, you should check out the new zine in town, Rise Over Run.
They have a Facebook presence.
and a MySpace page, and blogs, too
Give a look and contribute.
May 12, 2007