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Monthly Archives December 2009

Small-group Skyping

Today one of my reading groups started “small-group Skyping” (thanks for the phrase, @bjnichols) with some of Karin Perry’s (@kperry) students. The students met on Skype and then watched three book trailers before settling on Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies as the novel they wanted to read and discuss together after winter break. I thought the [...]

Posted 17 December 2009 † Chad § Blog post ‡ Comments (5) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Bus. Insomnia. Windows.

Last week during a bout of insomnia, I watched The Remains of the Day twice in a row. I had never seen it before or read the book, though I dearly love and frequently sniffle while reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. The Remains of the Day follows Mr. Stevens, a butler, who serves [...]

Posted 17 December 2009 † Chad § Blog post ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , , , , ,

Giant Hershey Bar

In response to this post by Shelly Terell (@shellterrell), Philly Teacher Mary Beth Hertz (@mbteach) shared her own reflections on lessons learned from great educators and then  tagged me to do the same.  Here goes (with all due apologies to Alan Moore, who, along with Anne Carson, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Haruki Murakami, and Vladimir Nabokov, taught [...]

Posted 11 December 2009 † Chad § Blog post ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , ,