Alan Levine walks to the platform. “Hi there,” he says, confessing to his email habit, the one that’s filled our email inboxes. Then suddenly, in true CogDog fashion, he introduces the speaker and quickly takes a seat. A truly modest … Continue reading →

Will Richardson writes yet another great post, this time on Kindles, social reading, social writing, social annotation–well, go read it yourself, then come right back. Now, strap in for more ironies and connections. I came to the Steven Johnson article … Continue reading →

Regarding Mike Caulfield’s latest thoughtful post: On one level, I couldn’t agree more. I write this post after long silence not to refute Mike’s ideas, wonderfully expressed, deeply encouraging. But I’m driven to respond because the matter is not simply … Continue reading →

More blogging, particularly about my own work in the classroom and about books I’m reading. I’ll be back in the classroom in mid-January, but I have some catching up to do with work I did in 2006, including the last … Continue reading →

Last week Kevin Creamer, Liaison Coordinator for the University of Richmond’s Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology, sat me down for a quick chat about information technologies in education. As you’ll hear in this podcast, Kevin was interested in some … Continue reading →

I was about to write that “The Flea,” one of Donne’s most famous, even notorious libertine seduction poems, changes its character radically when a woman reads it, but I don’t think that’s true. I think the poem stays the same. … Continue reading →

In today’s Donne Seminar podcast, Charlotte Naas reads one of Donne’s less-well-known poems, “Witchcraft by a Picture.” Such is Donne’s sharply marked poetic character, though, that you could probably tell it was one of his even if I hadn’t told … Continue reading →

Here’s Zac Smith reading Donne’s “Elegy 3: Change.” Donne’s elegies (in the Renaissance, “elegy” could mean any discursive or meditative poem, and could include even bawdy, Romanesque poems, as Donne demonstrates) are particularly interesting as indications of his wit and … Continue reading →

Here’s the second of the Donne Seminar podcasts from the class I led last semester. In this one, Emily Williams reads “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning.” I don’t want to comment on any of these readings in particular: the students already … Continue reading →

I need to get caught up here. Reading: Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke. No one does a music biography as well as Peter Guralnick, and this is a wonderful follow-up to the acclaimed two-volume Elvis biography. So far … Continue reading →