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Ken Burns interview redux

An experiment in audio restoration, at Jon Udell’s suggestion. I finished taking out the mechanical clicks (this was a manual process, oy) and then turned my efforts to ameliorating the high-pitched hum in the background. Working in Sound Forge, I ended up with a parametric EQ notch of -6.5 db and a bandwidth (or “Q”) [...]...

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[ Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:52:20 +0000 ]

Interview with Ken Burns, February 2003

Four years ago, and what seems like a lifetime away, I was fortunate to be able to speak with filmmaker Ken Burns just before his Fredericksburg Forum appearance at the University of Mary Washington (then Mary Washington College). The interview was published some time ago, but in my newly urgent dedication to getting my archives [...]...

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[ Sat, 10 Mar 2007 21:50:33 +0000 ]

Lyrics by Robert Herrick

Sometimes I wonder: what would it be like if I blogged almost everything?Today, then, I’d blog about a Milton seminar class in which I did most of the talking and ended rather dispirited, only to find via the class syllabus wiki that one very attentive student had not only taken it all in but transformed [...]...

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[ Wed, 14 Feb 2007 03:23:47 +0000 ]

Milton podcast: Ode on the Morning of Christ�s Nativity

I’m teaching my Milton seminar this spring for the first time in a couple of years, and I want to try podcasting some of Milton’s poetry and prose as (I hope) aids to comprehension. As always, I find that recording the words forces a certain kind of attention that I might not otherwise find. This time, [...]...

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[ Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:24:56 +0000 ]

�God�s World,�by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Betsy at “It’s All Connected” shared this sonnet with me in a comment on the Keats podcast below. The poem spoke to me, and I wanted to try to read it aloud. I’d like to hear Betsy do it, and I’d like to hear my beloved English professor Elizabeth Phillips read it too (she very [...]...

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[ Thu, 19 Oct 2006 02:26:43 +0000 ]

�To Autumn,� by John Keats

For the past few days I’ve spied Jack Frost on the grass around my house. The tang of fall is in the air, and in honor of the season, I read “To Autumn,” by John Keats. ...

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[ Mon, 16 Oct 2006 01:38:21 +0000 ]

First UR Podcast: Extending the Class

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 of the larger thinking behind my enthusiasm for particular technologies such as blogs and wikis. [...]...

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[ Fri, 25 Aug 2006 02:16:14 +0000 ]

Faculty Academy 2006 Podcast: What is Web 2.0?

So far I’ve been doing all the post-production on these Faculty Academy podcasts. That will change–time to share the joy–but it has been a tremendous learning experience for me, and it puts me in the mind of an assignment for students. A seminar format would be perfect. What if each presentation were recorded to be [...]...

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[ Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:29:09 +0000 ]

Faculty Academy 2006 Podcast: Jon Udell Keynote Address on 21st Century Literacy

About fifteen months after Jerry Slezak introduced me to the wonders of Jon Udell, I was standing before a capacity crowd in Combs 139 introducing Jon as the keynote speaker for Faculty Academy 2006. Now, almost two months after that introduction, you too can enjoy this moment. Beginning with Teilhard de Chardin and Doug Engelbart, [...]...

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[ Mon, 10 Jul 2006 04:41:59 +0000 ]

Faculty Academy 2006 Podcast: Rachel Smith on Gaming in Education

The next podcast from the University of Mary Washington’s Faculty Academy 2006 features Rachel Smith of the New Media Consortium. Her topic: “Gaming in Education.” Rachel has inspired a number of changes in my life, including some recent investigations into Second Life. That exploration has had several effects: some impassioned conversation, sometimes a little less sleep [...]...

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[ Tue, 27 Jun 2006 02:42:54 +0000 ]

Faculty Academy 2006 Podcast: A Conversation on Blogging at UMW

Our first Faculty Academy 2006 session after the general welcome was a plenary panel discussion/presentation on blogging at UMW. Session leader Steve Greenlaw enticed, coaxed, and otherwise motivated a whole raft of bloggers from many disciplines and both campuses into sharing how they’ve used (or in one case, refused to use) blogs in their teaching [...]...

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[ Fri, 09 Jun 2006 10:43:15 +0000 ]

Faculty Academy 2006 Podcasts begin: A Fantastico Expedition

I don’t have a very elegant beginning crafted here. That’s a shame, but it would be an even bigger shame not to begin at all, so here’s the first podcast from the 2006 UMW Faculty Academy on Instructional Technologies. This lunchtime session on May 17 was entitled “A Fantastico Expedition: Massive Web Innovation on $6.95 [...]...

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[ Mon, 05 Jun 2006 19:17:48 +0000 ]

Jessica Rigel reads�The Flea�

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. What changes, at least to some extent, is one’s horizon of expectations with regard to [...]...

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[ Fri, 12 May 2006 13:00:37 +0000 ]

Charlotte Naas reads�Witchcraft by a Picture�

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 you. Try the experiment: play the poem for your nearest English major or poetry lover, [...]...

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[ Wed, 10 May 2006 13:42:15 +0000 ]

Zac Smith reads �Elegy 3: Change�

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 his skill at arguing several sides of the same issue, sometimes all at once. “Elegy [...]...

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[ Tue, 02 May 2006 12:56:33 +0000 ]

Emily Williams reads �A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning�

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 know my evaluation of their work, and listeners can form their own judgments. I will [...]...

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[ Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:34:28 +0000 ]

Podcasts from the Donne Seminar

Last fall I led a seminar on the poetry and prose of John Donne here at the University of Mary Washington. As part of my preparation for the seminar, I began my “Donne a Day” podcast series in the summer. As part of the culmination of the seminar, I recorded student readings of Donne’s work [...]...

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[ Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:01:48 +0000 ]

UMW�s Claudia Emerson Awarded 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry

My friend and colleague Claudia Emerson received some thrilling news this afternoon: her third book, Late Wife, has been awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. The Pulitzer site doesn’t permit easy linking to specific pages, so here’s the Arts and Letters list as published this afternoon: Letters, Music and Drama Awards FICTION March by Geraldine Brooks [...]...

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[ Mon, 17 Apr 2006 21:57:34 +0000 ]

The Power of Podcasting in Teaching and Learning

Here’s a podcast of my presentation last Sunday at the “E-Learning Futures” pre-conference workshop for the 2006 University Continuing Education Association conference. The occasion represented a number of firsts for me. It was my first presentation for this organization. I hope it won’t be my last, as I found my colleages at the conference to [...]...

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[ Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:12:46 +0000 ]

Podcast at Long Last: Andrew Marvell

As a prelude to the next podcast series on Gardner Writes, here’s a reading I did a couple of weeks ago of poetry by Andrew Marvell. The reading was part of our UMW “Thursday Poems” series, a marvelous tradition begun by now-professor-emeritus Bill Kemp. The idea is to congregate at 5 p.m. on Thursday afternoons [...]...

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[ Sat, 18 Feb 2006 20:27:12 +0000 ]

A Deficit of Joy

Podcasts a part of the read/write Web? You bet they are. But that’s an argument for another post. Right now I want to share a snippet of an inspiring podcast I found via The University Channel. Dr. David Orr, Professor and Chair of the Environmental Studies Program at Oberlin College, spoke on “The End of Education” [...]...

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[ Tue, 07 Feb 2006 13:27:34 +0000 ]

A Donne A Day 25: The Relique (First Take)

My first set of attempts at recording and commenting on “The Relique” was spoiled by a technical problem: I thought I was using one microphone, but in fact was using the built-in microphone on my tablet PC. I redid the recording to get a better-sounding podcast. So why podcast the spoiled attempt? Because I think [...]...

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[ Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:07:17 +0000 ]

A Donne A Day 24: The Relique

As so often happens, I began this reading with great admiration for the poem and ended more than a little awestruck by it.Some thoughts on that awe. A successful or at least meaningful performance demands commitment, in time; a committed process or a process of commitment, in other words. And from that commitment, vital [...]...

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[ Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:53:29 +0000 ]

A Donne A Day 22: Holy Sonnet 14

A dark epiphany at lunch today. I hope it’s an example of lifelong learning.The audio isn’t as polished as usual. Perhaps that’s apt. I wanted the iron-fresh odor before it dissipated, so I rushed the recording. But not the reading....

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[ Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:06:54 +0000 ]

?There?s Something in the Air: Podcasting in Education?

I’m at the 2005 EDUCAUSE convention and getting ready for tomorrow’s pre-conference workshop on digital assets management. I’m also looking forward to a reunion with some friends–friends I didn’t know just two years ago, when I first came to EDUCAUSE.I’ve already heard from one of those friends, Bryan Alexander, who tells me the advance [...]...

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[ Tue, 18 Oct 2005 02:44:52 +0000 ]

Tablet PC Congratulations Screencast

There's so much inspiration and wonder in what Will Richardson does in his job, and generously shares with us on Weblogg-ed, that it feels a little odd to single out one thing. But this little treasure is so compelling that I want to try to explain a little bit of its power over my imagination [...]...

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[ Fri, 09 Sep 2005 09:08:51 +0000 ]

Repost of?Valediction: of the Booke?

Apparently the RSS feed didn't kick in for some reason, at least in my iTunes subscription. Apologies for the repost....

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[ Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:41:39 +0000 ]

A Donne A Day 17: Twicknam Garden

"Twicknam Garden" both celebrates and subverts the Renaissance garden as a place of refuge from city life, a place that recalls the harmonious union of art and nature that was lost when Adam and Eve were expelled from Paradise, the original garden. As you'll hear, there are some unpleasant moments of self-aggrandisement and bitterness in [...]...

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[ Sun, 21 Aug 2005 23:12:26 +0000 ]

Claiming my Odeo Channel

So much research, so little time: My Odeo Channel (odeo/52b27e7ec884eae7).Thanks for listening....

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[ Wed, 03 Aug 2005 21:30:39 +0000 ]

A Donne A Day 16:?A Valediction: of My Name, in the Window?

Quite a philosophical romp this time, as well as an unusually long ADAD podcast: upwards of fifteen minutes (you have been warned). The poem takes up most of that time, though I confess I found myself warming to the explication as I went along. You may be the judge of whether that process produces more [...]...

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[ Tue, 02 Aug 2005 23:10:50 +0000 ]

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