Comments on: http://htmlgiant.com/snippet/19742/ the internet literature magazine blog of the future Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:25:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Amy McDaniel http://htmlgiant.com/snippet/19742/comment-page-2/#comment-40854 Amy McDaniel Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:07:10 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=19742#comment-40854 thanks so very much everyone. i will let you know how what i choose from this lovely list goes over with my class. thanks so very much everyone. i will let you know how what i choose from this lovely list goes over with my class.

]]> By: Amy McDaniel http://htmlgiant.com/snippet/19742/comment-page-1/#comment-128003 Amy McDaniel Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:07:00 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=19742#comment-128003 thanks so very much everyone. i will let you know how what i choose from this lovely list goes over with my class. thanks so very much everyone. i will let you know how what i choose from this lovely list goes over with my class.

]]> By: Amy McDaniel http://htmlgiant.com/snippet/19742/comment-page-1/#comment-128004 Amy McDaniel Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:07:00 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=19742#comment-128004 thanks so very much everyone. i will let you know how what i choose from this lovely list goes over with my class. thanks so very much everyone. i will let you know how what i choose from this lovely list goes over with my class.

]]> By: Tim Horvath http://htmlgiant.com/snippet/19742/comment-page-1/#comment-40853 Tim Horvath Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:01:35 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=19742#comment-40853 I teach a class called Unruly Fictions and make it a point to throw some experimental stuff at my students whatever the class is called, even if it's something like "Unabashedly Conventional Linear Narratives about Characters Firmly Entrenched in Reality" or something along those lines. Anyway, a few pieces have worked particularly well for me. One is a piece by Sandy McIntosh from <i>Alimentum</i> issue 8, entitled "A Partial Menu of Dishes Returned to the Kitchen by a Former Girlfriend," which is done in the form of a chart listing the venue, the item, and circumstances of dish-dismissal. It is hilarious and generates discussion about the story and characterizations implied in the interstices, and best of all can be readily emulated with parallel categories. Another good one is Matt Bell's piece, "An Index of How Our Family Was Killed," up at http://www.conjunctions.com/webcon/bell09.htm. I've had students burn through this like a Dan Brown novel. Also, Italo Calvino's invisible cities have worked well in inviting the invention of other cities. In general, I find that by writing something in the same form or spirit, they are able to access the work more authentically and engage it. Not doing so is akin to going to a museum filled with mindblowing stuff kept under glass as opposed to one of those interactive museums where you flip over rocks, perform open heart surgery, commandeer the space shuttle and such. I teach a class called Unruly Fictions and make it a point to throw some experimental stuff at my students whatever the class is called, even if it’s something like “Unabashedly Conventional Linear Narratives about Characters Firmly Entrenched in Reality” or something along those lines. Anyway, a few pieces have worked particularly well for me. One is a piece by Sandy McIntosh from Alimentum issue 8, entitled “A Partial Menu of Dishes Returned to the Kitchen by a Former Girlfriend,” which is done in the form of a chart listing the venue, the item, and circumstances of dish-dismissal. It is hilarious and generates discussion about the story and characterizations implied in the interstices, and best of all can be readily emulated with parallel categories. Another good one is Matt Bell’s piece, “An Index of How Our Family Was Killed,” up at http://www.conjunctions.com/webcon/bell09.htm. I’ve had students burn through this like a Dan Brown novel. Also, Italo Calvino’s invisible cities have worked well in inviting the invention of other cities. In general, I find that by writing something in the same form or spirit, they are able to access the work more authentically and engage it. Not doing so is akin to going to a museum filled with mindblowing stuff kept under glass as opposed to one of those interactive museums where you flip over rocks, perform open heart surgery, commandeer the space shuttle and such.

]]> By: Tim Horvath http://htmlgiant.com/snippet/19742/comment-page-1/#comment-128001 Tim Horvath Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:01:00 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=19742#comment-128001 I teach a class called Unruly Fictions and make it a point to throw some experimental stuff at my students whatever the class is called, even if it's something like "Unabashedly Conventional Linear Narratives about Characters Firmly Entrenched in Reality" or something along those lines. Anyway, a few pieces have worked particularly well for me. One is a piece by Sandy McIntosh from <i>Alimentum</i> issue 8, entitled "A Partial Menu of Dishes Returned to the Kitchen by a Former Girlfriend," which is done in the form of a chart listing the venue, the item, and circumstances of dish-dismissal. It is hilarious and generates discussion about the story and characterizations implied in the interstices, and best of all can be readily emulated with parallel categories. Another good one is Matt Bell's piece, "An Index of How Our Family Was Killed," up at http://www.conjunctions.com/webcon/bell09.htm. I've had students burn through this like a Dan Brown novel. Also, Italo Calvino's invisible cities have worked well in inviting the invention of other cities. In general, I find that by writing something in the same form or spirit, they are able to access the work more authentically and engage it. Not doing so is akin to going to a museum filled with mindblowing stuff kept under glass as opposed to one of those interactive museums where you flip over rocks, perform open heart surgery, commandeer the space shuttle and such. I teach a class called Unruly Fictions and make it a point to throw some experimental stuff at my students whatever the class is called, even if it’s something like “Unabashedly Conventional Linear Narratives about Characters Firmly Entrenched in Reality” or something along those lines. Anyway, a few pieces have worked particularly well for me. One is a piece by Sandy McIntosh from Alimentum issue 8, entitled “A Partial Menu of Dishes Returned to the Kitchen by a Former Girlfriend,” which is done in the form of a chart listing the venue, the item, and circumstances of dish-dismissal. It is hilarious and generates discussion about the story and characterizations implied in the interstices, and best of all can be readily emulated with parallel categories. Another good one is Matt Bell’s piece, “An Index of How Our Family Was Killed,” up at http://www.conjunctions.com/webcon/bell09.htm. I’ve had students burn through this like a Dan Brown novel. Also, Italo Calvino’s invisible cities have worked well in inviting the invention of other cities. In general, I find that by writing something in the same form or spirit, they are able to access the work more authentically and engage it. Not doing so is akin to going to a museum filled with mindblowing stuff kept under glass as opposed to one of those interactive museums where you flip over rocks, perform open heart surgery, commandeer the space shuttle and such.

]]> By: Tim Horvath http://htmlgiant.com/snippet/19742/comment-page-1/#comment-128002 Tim Horvath Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:01:00 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=19742#comment-128002 I teach a class called Unruly Fictions and make it a point to throw some experimental stuff at my students whatever the class is called, even if it's something like "Unabashedly Conventional Linear Narratives about Characters Firmly Entrenched in Reality" or something along those lines. Anyway, a few pieces have worked particularly well for me. One is a piece by Sandy McIntosh from <i>Alimentum</i> issue 8, entitled "A Partial Menu of Dishes Returned to the Kitchen by a Former Girlfriend," which is done in the form of a chart listing the venue, the item, and circumstances of dish-dismissal. It is hilarious and generates discussion about the story and characterizations implied in the interstices, and best of all can be readily emulated with parallel categories. Another good one is Matt Bell's piece, "An Index of How Our Family Was Killed," up at http://www.conjunctions.com/webcon/bell09.htm. I've had students burn through this like a Dan Brown novel. Also, Italo Calvino's invisible cities have worked well in inviting the invention of other cities. In general, I find that by writing something in the same form or spirit, they are able to access the work more authentically and engage it. Not doing so is akin to going to a museum filled with mindblowing stuff kept under glass as opposed to one of those interactive museums where you flip over rocks, perform open heart surgery, commandeer the space shuttle and such. I teach a class called Unruly Fictions and make it a point to throw some experimental stuff at my students whatever the class is called, even if it’s something like “Unabashedly Conventional Linear Narratives about Characters Firmly Entrenched in Reality” or something along those lines. Anyway, a few pieces have worked particularly well for me. One is a piece by Sandy McIntosh from Alimentum issue 8, entitled “A Partial Menu of Dishes Returned to the Kitchen by a Former Girlfriend,” which is done in the form of a chart listing the venue, the item, and circumstances of dish-dismissal. It is hilarious and generates discussion about the story and characterizations implied in the interstices, and best of all can be readily emulated with parallel categories. Another good one is Matt Bell’s piece, “An Index of How Our Family Was Killed,” up at http://www.conjunctions.com/webcon/bell09.htm. I’ve had students burn through this like a Dan Brown novel. Also, Italo Calvino’s invisible cities have worked well in inviting the invention of other cities. In general, I find that by writing something in the same form or spirit, they are able to access the work more authentically and engage it. Not doing so is akin to going to a museum filled with mindblowing stuff kept under glass as opposed to one of those interactive museums where you flip over rocks, perform open heart surgery, commandeer the space shuttle and such.

]]> By: aL http://htmlgiant.com/snippet/19742/comment-page-1/#comment-40852 aL Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:53:42 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=19742#comment-40852 Jack Spicer, Kim Hyesoon, Kenneth Koch, Aram Saroyan, Jean Valentine. Maybe some vizpo, sound poetry and conceptual stuff. I bet the kids'd love some flarf. I've always wished I had had more exposure to how far the poetry world really extends. Poetry education generally seems severely lacking in that regard as far as I've seen. Jack Spicer, Kim Hyesoon, Kenneth Koch, Aram Saroyan, Jean Valentine. Maybe some vizpo, sound poetry and conceptual stuff. I bet the kids’d love some flarf. I’ve always wished I had had more exposure to how far the poetry world really extends. Poetry education generally seems severely lacking in that regard as far as I’ve seen.

]]> By: aL http://htmlgiant.com/snippet/19742/comment-page-1/#comment-127999 aL Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:53:00 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=19742#comment-127999 Jack Spicer, Kim Hyesoon, Kenneth Koch, Aram Saroyan, Jean Valentine. Maybe some vizpo, sound poetry and conceptual stuff. I bet the kids'd love some flarf. I've always wished I had had more exposure to how far the poetry world really extends. Poetry education generally seems severely lacking in that regard as far as I've seen. Jack Spicer, Kim Hyesoon, Kenneth Koch, Aram Saroyan, Jean Valentine. Maybe some vizpo, sound poetry and conceptual stuff. I bet the kids’d love some flarf. I’ve always wished I had had more exposure to how far the poetry world really extends. Poetry education generally seems severely lacking in that regard as far as I’ve seen.

]]> By: aL http://htmlgiant.com/snippet/19742/comment-page-1/#comment-128000 aL Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:53:00 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=19742#comment-128000 Jack Spicer, Kim Hyesoon, Kenneth Koch, Aram Saroyan, Jean Valentine. Maybe some vizpo, sound poetry and conceptual stuff. I bet the kids'd love some flarf. I've always wished I had had more exposure to how far the poetry world really extends. Poetry education generally seems severely lacking in that regard as far as I've seen. Jack Spicer, Kim Hyesoon, Kenneth Koch, Aram Saroyan, Jean Valentine. Maybe some vizpo, sound poetry and conceptual stuff. I bet the kids’d love some flarf. I’ve always wished I had had more exposure to how far the poetry world really extends. Poetry education generally seems severely lacking in that regard as far as I’ve seen.

]]> By: mimi http://htmlgiant.com/snippet/19742/comment-page-1/#comment-40845 mimi Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:50:01 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=19742#comment-40845 I feel compelled to add one more thing to this thread: Whenever I feel "confused" "forgetful of" what I'm doing in the classroom or when providing staff development to other educators, I return to this (to me) simple and meaningful quote: "The teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination, and patience, to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning. "
 - Nathan M. Pusey, Former President of Harvard University I feel compelled to add one more thing to this thread:

Whenever I feel “confused” “forgetful of” what I’m doing in the classroom or when providing staff development to other educators, I return to this (to me) simple and meaningful quote:

“The teacher’s task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination, and patience, to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning. “

- Nathan M. Pusey, Former President of Harvard University

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