Category Archives: Reading

More Reading, More CW Pedagogy, More Gaming

8/10/2010 – 2:06 pm

Reading upon reading upon reading on creative writing pedagogy and gaming. I’ve got at least three decent paper ideas that I should start writing any day now (one on creative writing pedagogy in the digital age, one on role-playing games and CW, and one on video games and CW) and there are plenty more bubbling [...]

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Things I Have Been Doing That Aren’t Blogging

7/29/2010 – 11:33 am

It’s funny: with the World Cup over and the limericks drying up, I’ve hardly visited this space in almost three weeks. Considering that I’m the author of this blog, I should probably remedy that. But baby-watching takes up a lot of time and I’ve been busy with other pursuits. In order, they are: Reading. Very [...]

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The Neglected Blog and a Great 72 Hours for Spurs

3/24/2010 – 9:50 pm

/ So the reading continues in prep for my exam at the end of April. I switched gears away from my minor area of digital pedagogy and to my main area entitled “Unstable Realities: Magical Realism, Science Fiction, and the Fantastic in Postmodern World Literature.” The titles I’ve knocked down are Rhetorics of Fantasy by [...]

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Blowing Out the Corneas

3/9/2010 – 2:05 pm

/ Right, so I’m taking a brief moment during a baby nap to post what I’ve been up to. Which is reading. Since my last post I’ve banged through two excellent collections published by the MacArthur Foundation for Digital Media and Learning, specifically The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning and Digital Youth, [...]

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Reading and Thinking While Playing Fallout 3

2/26/2010 – 7:16 pm

I’m almost done with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of the Four, which is his second novel that features Sherlock Holmes. I had a free trial for Audible and couldn’t find anything I really wanted (sadly), and I’ve been thinking about doing some detective/noir reading. I also wanted the most bang for the buck [...]

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Pedagogical Musings and the Return of the Champs League!

2/16/2010 – 2:32 pm

/ <broken record> Yes, so I’ve been reading and thinking and teaching. Quite often I’m reading about teaching or thinking about teaching and even reading about thinking. Most of what I’ve been reading (and thinking) has to do with my prelim area of digital pedagogy, or how to effectively incorporate computers into instruction. The strong [...]

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Plodding Away

2/8/2010 – 12:58 pm

Man, the start of the spring semester is a slog (and full of alliteration). I find critiquing my creative writing students’ poetry to be one of the most time consuming tasks on the planet; I also give a lot of assignments to my research writing class early in the semester, so between reading and commenting [...]

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Yet Another Format Change, Spurs’ True Colors, and Reflections on XBox 360 Games

1/23/2010 – 4:27 pm

Awhile back I changed the name of the site from “The Always Insightful Insights of Trent Hergenrader” (a name I never particularly liked) to “A Propensity for Unstable Realities, ” which is another name I didn’t particularly like. My goal at that time was to create a more professional-looking site and take it away from [...]

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2,010 Updates

1/13/2010 – 11:02 pm

Geez, two weeks since I last posted an entry? Shows you where blogging is on my list of priorities. So, what have I been doing? Reading, mostly. I finished my ninth book in three weeks tonight. If you’re interested to see what I’ve been reading, count backwards on this list (or everything between Gordon Henry’s [...]

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2009 – A Retrospective

12/31/2009 – 6:30 pm

2009 flew past, didn’t it? Quite a bit better than 2008 I must say, and I’m looking forward to what 2010 has in store. Well, first things first. 2009 was definitely, beyond a shadow of a doubt, dominated by the one we call G-Man, G-Money, the gooch, the goon, Mr. Moo, and every so often [...]

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