TeacherLife: Living Multimodally

One of the passages in Schmidt and Kruger-Ross’ chapsters on integrated multimodality hit me powerfully this week…”the way that we live our lives day-to-day is typically multimodal,” (Schmidt and Kruger-Ross, P. 117). To be Trinidadian (or Trini, as we say it) during Carnival week anywhere but home is like water for chocolate…thinner, paler, colder. My […]

Teacherlife: Visual Literacies

Visual literacies appear to have a hierarchy in the traditional classroom. Text over images, some images over others, and all static things over shifting things in terms of what is more or less constructed as “valid” source material for education. We keep coming back to Bloom’s revised taxonomy in the exploration of different types and […]

Teacherlife: Technology, modern literacies, and the nature of childhood.

I love being part of NCTE. The National Council of Teachers of English is a plural, thoughtful, scholarly group of researchers and practitioners, and this is evident in their conference and across their publications. They interrogate and interpret literacies as communication practices oriented within society. The communication landscape I grew up in is vastly different […]

That feeling when…

I’ve been wanting to write this one for a number of years greater than ten. I don’t even know how many. It’s a coming out of the closet post, and those are always hard. The problem I struggle with regarding compartmentalization is I needed to break apart the intimate struggles of life to get through […]

8 years later: The List

The first list: Share or support one of these or things like these (vet them and check their mission and masthead first). If you have better versions of any of these sources or community supports, please let me know. If you have resources for the next batch, let me know that too, please, and I’ll […]

Anthropology of wine basics

Paper for my Anthro of Wine Course, for the first exams. 1. Origin and development of wine from earliest to modern form. Dendrochronology indicates vineyards existed in forests along the southern shore of the Caspian sea as early as the Pleistocene era and continued through the Neolithic in farming communities. Despite the wild proliferation of […]

President Obama marked the first 100 days of his tenure at the helm of the country on Wednesday. The road has been rocky, both from the legacy of partisanship and economic malfeasance of the last administration as well as various new unfolding crises. Yet the new president has met the challenge with relative honesty, and […]