Greetings, Class Community.
Are you considering a study abroad experience?
Yours truly,
Dr. Hill
Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Are You Thinking about Studying Abroad???
Greetings, Class Community.
Are you considering a study abroad experience?
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Talks about the Intersections between Technology and Creativity
Greetings, Class Community.
I have posted the videos we reviewed in class along with some we did not have a chance to view together.
View and/or review the videos. They may give you pointers for your presentations that begin next week.
I have posted the videos we reviewed in class along with some we did not have a chance to view together.
View and/or review the videos. They may give you pointers for your presentations that begin next week.
Friday, October 18, 2013
Book Trailer Genre, Remix Theory, and YouTube Technology
Greetings, Class Community.
Below you will find a 'book trailer'. This new genre, 'book trailer', is clearly a modification of the 'movie trailer'. In kind, the genre of the 'book trailer' is a YouTube medium.
Please watch the book trailer and consider what we have discussed about the intersections of remix theory and creative writing. Also consider the popularity of YouTube and the associated technologies on the creation of this genre.
Do you think that a 'book trailer' is a new genre or a modification of previous promotional genres related to the marketing of books and/or information? How are techniques associated with scrapbooking and remix evident?
Dr. Ruth Nicole Brown is a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is releasing a new
book on Black Girlhood Studies entitled Hear Our Truths: The Creative Potential of Black Girlhood.
This is an ideal book for any of you that might be interested in the
intersections of gender studies, education, creativity and African AmericanStudies.
Intersections in Creative Writing, Music, and History
Greetings, Class Community.
I wanted to take a moment to share an interview between poets and professors, Randall Horton and Tyehimba Jess. Horton and Jess discuss persona poems, language, titling complete works, McKoy (The Two-Headed Nightingale) Sisters, freak show, and researching as a writer.
Arts@UNH Interview with Tyehimba Jess
Randall Horton
I wanted to take a moment to share an interview between poets and professors, Randall Horton and Tyehimba Jess. Horton and Jess discuss persona poems, language, titling complete works, McKoy (The Two-Headed Nightingale) Sisters, freak show, and researching as a writer.
Arts@UNH Interview with Tyehimba Jess
Randall Horton
Randall Horton is an associate professor of English at the University of
New Haven in Connecticut and the author of The Definition of Place (2006) and
The Lingua Franca of Ninth Street (2009). He is the recipient of the Gwendolyn
Brooks Poetry Award, the Bea González Poetry Award, and a National Endowment of
the Arts Literature Fellowship. Randall is a fellow of Cave Canem and a member
of the Affrilachian Poets, two organizations that support African American
poetry; and a member of the Symphony: The House That Etheridge Built, a reading
collective named for the poet Etheridge Knight. An excerpt from Horton’s
memoir, Roxbury, is newly released as a chapbook.
Tyehimba Jess bridges slam and
academic poetry. His first collection, leadbelly (2005), an exploration
of the blues musician Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter’s life, was chosen for the
National Poetry Series and was voted one of the top three poetry
books of the year by Black Issues Book Review. A reviewer for Publishers
Weekly noted that “the collection’s strength lies in its contradictory
forms; from biography to lyric to hard-driving prose poem, boast to song, all
are soaked in the rhythm and dialect of Southern blues and the demands of
honoring one’s talent.”
TedxNashvlle - Tyehimba Jess - Syncopated Sonnets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmtH0A5mVnANational Day of Writing - Like to Write?
Greetings, Class Community.
Pearl James, Faculty Sponsor
Sigma Tau Delta--UK Chapter
Today, Friday, is the National Day of Writing. Writing booths will be set up all over Lexington. Some University of Kentucky - Sigma Tau Delta members and faculty from English and WRD will be at the tables just outside of Starbucks in the Student Center from 10 AM until 2 PM -- come write with us... A phrase, a sentence, a paragraph... Whatever you are inspired to write.
We hope our booth produces the best and longest chapter city-wide.
We hope our booth produces the best and longest chapter city-wide.
Come join us!
Pearl James, Faculty Sponsor
Sigma Tau Delta--UK Chapter
FACEBOOK.COM/UKSIGMATAUDELTA
Follow us on Twitter: @UKSIGMATAUDELTA
Follow us on Twitter: @UKSIGMATAUDELTA
instagram: UKSIGMATAUDELTA
Join Penny Kittle (@pennykittle) and Katherine Sokolowski
(@katsok) on Sunday, October 20, at 8 p.m. ET, for a Twitter Chat (#nctechat)
celebrating the National Day on Writing! They’ll spend the first half of
the chat on how we write to connect with technology (in honor of Connected
Educators Month #ce13) and the second half on how to write to
connect across the curriculum K-20.
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Student Contribution (Elizabeth Angell) - Memory Kart Events
Greetings, Class Community.
Thank you for adding this information Elizabeth Angell. I will be sure to spread the word about Memory Kart.
This community will also have different NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, events. If you would like more information, email or chat with Elizabeth.
Dr. Hill
Thank you for adding this information Elizabeth Angell. I will be sure to spread the word about Memory Kart.
This community will also have different NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, events. If you would like more information, email or chat with Elizabeth.
Dr. Hill
Student Contribution (Ashly Pennington) - Poet Misspells 'Father'
Greetings, Class Community.
I would like to begin by thank you Ashly Pennington for sharing this interactive spoken word poem by Marshall Davis with us. This example is taken from an article entitled "Video: Poet 'misspells' the word 'father' in a spelling bee & why" by Anne Sewell.
In addition to admiring the poem for its literary complexities, consider the ways the poem is remixed and/or enhanced by new technologies.
Enjoy!
Dr. Hill
Check out Digital Journal - http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/356136
Check out Marshall Davis - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFX2LrNE3VI
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Virtual Seminars and Interviews on Poetry and African American Literature
Please join the Project onthe History of Black Writing for a virtual seminar (webinar) with poet NikkiGiovanni on Wednesday, October 16th, 2013 at 10AM CST. Moderator
will be Professor Opal Moore (Spelman College). Click on the
link for information on how to join the virtual seminar:
This event is the first in
a series of virtual seminars to be held this fall as follow-up to the summer's
NEH Institute "Don't Deny My Voice: Reading and Teaching AfricanAmerican Literature."
Please mark
your calendars and plan to attend ALL of the upcoming virtual seminars:
Wednesday,
October 16th, 2013
11 AM EST
Tuesday,
October 22, 2013
1 PM EST
Wednesday,
November 6th, 2013
3 PM
Friday,
November 15th, 2013
5 PM EST
Tuesday,
November 26, 2013
2 PM EST
December
2013, Date and Time TBA
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