Mar 21Dangerous Pedagogy: Preoccupied Prewriting (part 3): “Ugh! Taxes!”This post is part of the Dangerous Pedagogy Series. Links below. While writing may be the application of the seat of one’s pants to the seat of a chair, especially for us pantsers, I find that some of my best writing happens not when I set my mind to the…Teaching Writing5 min read
Jan 23Settling into The Nest: Rich Immersive Theater in an LA Storage Lockera no-spoilers review of one of LA’s coolest (and priciest) experiences. When you arrive at the immersive theater experience The Nest, the email explains, you should stand on the sidewalk graphic of a cassette tape, the well-suited logo of the project, and ring the doorbell, which is also suitably chosen…Immersive Theatre8 min read
Oct 28, 2021Fire Season took my breath away“When I am a desert, will it matter who loved me? Will my bones, bleached by the radiation of this white-hot fire remember the currents that contracted, extended, relaxed, as fingers touched by skin?” So says the voice in my ears, as I joined a few hand fulls of fellow…Immersive Theatre6 min read
Aug 19, 2021How to Fork a Book: The Radical Transformation of Publishingby Sarah Ciston and Mark C. Marino In software development, particularly free and open source software programming, creators place versions of their programs in repositories where others can download, clone, and fork them. When someone forks a piece of software, they change it in some way, perhaps customizing it for…Publishing8 min read
Jul 30, 2020Stop Making Students Stare at the ScreenAh, Zoom. How I love thee. But to those who use Zoom to teach, I say: So, I’ve already written a bit about Zoom, like how to Zoom with a smile. And I remember the beginning of quarantine, when I first tried all cameras off, feeling like the class didn’t…Zoom3 min read
May 21, 2020Dangerous Pedagogy: Ambling InventionA writing lesson that takes writers out of the classroom — Most people will tell you they come up with some of their best ideas by walking. But most of the time when we teach writing, we force students to sit in their seats and stare at the expanse of the blank page or screen. …Teaching Writing4 min read
Mar 24, 2020Dangerous Pedagogy: Preoccupied Prewriting (Part 2)How can doing other activities help us write? How do we generate ideas for writing? Do we sit staring at a blank page? I don’t know about you, but most of my best ideas come to me…Writing5 min read
Mar 17, 2020Zooming with a smileVideoconferencing your best YOU in the Coronavirus moment. — Over the past week and a half, I, along with much of the world, have been moving from in person teaching teleconferencing, but I find that it is a little exhausting. (I know I’ve already said how sad it makes me.) Oh, and by exhausting, I mean it feels like…Video Conferencing3 min read
Mar 12, 2020What just happened? The Leap to Online Instruction during the Coronavirus CrisisCan we take a second and talk about the emotional toll of switching to all online instruction? So, dutifully, my fellow instructors moved our courses online. Suddenly, we were Zooming (and otherwise teleducating). We went from highly engineered chair-desks to the futons and couches and deskchairs of our homes. …Corona2 min read
Mar 11, 2020Dangerous Pedagogy: Preoccupied Prewriting (Part 1)Have you ever noticed how many ideas you get while doing other things? — Have you ever noticed how hard it is to think of ideas to write about while you are staring at a blank page but how many ideas you get as you sit down to do some basic math, like paying your taxes. Or how when you are doing some small…Teaching6 min read
