and reddit/r/ELATeachers just now.
Spontaneous Publicity
This is just the sort of spontaneous publicity that will get me noticed” Navin Johnson. introduction
Things not to say to your prof, and other advice.
I expect all of my comp 1 students to have read Mary Pat McQueeney’s “Information for Dual Enrolled High School Students,” and Matthew Schmeer’s “A Few Notes about This Class and How I TEach it” and Dave Davis’s “10 things…
Bridge of Birds
A brilliant and tasteful aunt bought me Bridge of Birds when I was in my late teens or early 20’s, Shortly after when the book came out. She’d turned me on to Shel Silversteen, and this book had even greater impact.…
Dream of the Red Chamber: the Story of the Stone
One thing I love about camping, is that it will get me started on a piece of great literature that might not compete well against all the distractions of modern edutainment. I finally read The Dream of the Red Chamber.…
10 Words: literature by Yu Hua
Read 10 Words (link to Amazon) by Yu Hua last summer for the ASDP China summer institute. I expected it to be practical introduction to the Chinese language and linguistics, but the thoughtful and personal recollection and exploration of Chinese…
relevant meme
http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3tuij1/
Movie night: The World of Suzie Wong
The ferries in Hong Kong hadn’t changed much from 1960 when this movie was made, until I visited in the mid-to-late 90’s. I remember picking up the book in a hotel lobby, or got from a fellow expatriate. I’ve been…
Movie night: Nanking
Found a handful of movies on or about China in the JCCC library, and started with Nanking, a documentary with real footage and photos, and interviews with people – Chinese civilians and Japanese soldiers. Some serious actors read letters and…
Library research
There have been some cool library research orientation guides. They are free and sharable across most platforms. Rutgers has some great animations on citing sources, avoiding inadvertent plagiarism, and the like. Library of the Living Dead the free…