Getting to know me...

[cmt2779]

Here's a fairly interesting meme aimed at finding out more about your friends. If you want to play, too, here's how it works: Comment on this post asking for me to meme you, and I will choose seven interests from your profile. Then you make a post where you explain what those seven interests mean to you, why you are interested in them, and so on.

Comments

[mckitterick]

Thanks for accepting the challenge! Neat stuff.

Speaking of fascinating cephalopods, have you read the book, Typhon's Children, by "Toni Anzetti" (aka Ann Tonsor Zeddies)? Lots of great cephalopod action, plus a really good book overall.

Geeks really are the best *g*

Sounds like I should check out this House of Leaves!

See, now the way you talk about pedagogy makes it sound like a good thing *g* - my experience with it in academia had reduced it to a stuffy, dusty notion in my mind. Thanks for reminding me that just thinking about teaching and how to do it better counts as the p-word.

Your ongoing self-photography is fun. You are so photogenic, clearly loving playing with the camera. I think it would be great and hilarious and ironic if you were to put this to your own financial gain and become a model for extra buckies while working on your degree!

Chris

[cmt2779]

Thanks for the book recommendation! I haven't read Typhon's Children, but now I want to. It sounds really interesting.

Most of my experiences with "pedagogy" in academia have been fairly stuffy, too (with the exception of one class aimed at preparing graduate students who had already been teaching freshman writing to teach sophomore literature courses), but my less formal conversations with other teachers have typically been wonderful and educational. Over the summer, while I was teaching American literature, other grad students came in to observe my course as part of their Literary Pedagogy class. The conversations I had and feedback I got from them was great. I'd love to have more experiences like that, talking with peers about ideas and problems, but it's hard to get together with other grad students. Busy, busy.

And thanks for the compliment on my photography project! It really is fun and I'm getting better at the photography as I continue.