http://www.trenthergenrader.com/wordpress Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:05:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en / 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, ... http://www.trenthergenrader.com/wordpress/2010/03/09/blowing-out-the-corneas/ 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 ... http://www.trenthergenrader.com/wordpress/2010/02/26/reading-and-thinking-while-playing-fallout-3/ / As part of the poetry unit in my Intro to Creative Writing class we take a look at some examples of visual poetry. This includes some calligrams, some collage poetry, and Tom Phillips' remarkable A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel. Wikipedia gives a http://www.trenthergenrader.com/wordpress/2010/02/23/some-humuments/ Hey! Athena turns six years old today! She's done a good job dealing with the radical change we've all been tolerating for the last nine months or so. We love you Bean and think that you've been handling your demotion in the family pecking order pretty well. On the menu ... http://www.trenthergenrader.com/wordpress/2010/02/20/athena-turns-six/ / <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 ... http://www.trenthergenrader.com/wordpress/2010/02/16/pedagogical-musings-and-the-return-of-the-champs-league/ Good Lord, the midweek Premier League games couldn't have been more disappointing for me. I'm so very tired of Spurs spurning every opportunity to make a run at fourth, especially when it's against poor opposition. I can honestly say my hopes never rose while Spurs occupied their top three/four ... http://www.trenthergenrader.com/wordpress/2010/02/11/midweek-disappointment/ 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, ... http://www.trenthergenrader.com/wordpress/2010/02/08/plodding-away/ / I got an email last night that Mondadari Publishing, which Wikipedia says is the largest publishing company in Italy, is reprinting The Best Horror of the Year #1. It contains my story "The Hodag," which first appeared in the UK magazine Black Static. I can hardly wait to tell ... http://www.trenthergenrader.com/wordpress/2010/02/04/the-italian-job/ 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 ... http://www.trenthergenrader.com/wordpress/2010/01/23/yet-another-format-change-spurs-true-colors-and-reflections-on-xbox-360-games/ 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 ... http://www.trenthergenrader.com/wordpress/2010/01/13/2010-updates/