Here's that Lakoff site, Kate.

Here's another one: http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15414

And another one: http://www.wwcd.org/issues/Lakoff.html

It's a very interesting field. I like that he took Chomsky on and whupped his ass.

Laughing Lou Reed: " Everything is permitted; nothing is true." Definition of postmodernism, like it or not.

The Elusive Butterfly: "This little discussion started with an inquiry by a group of mathematician friends at Santa Clara University. They noted the curious fact that the word for 'butterfly' was different for every European language, including those most closely related--such as Spanish and Portuguese. I later found that the 'butterfly problem' is one of those linguistic curiosities that has lurked at the edges of scholarship for some time without much in the way of a full research effort--the linguistic equivalent of the study of yawning by biomedical researchers."

Life is still full of mystery. Great yawping mystery.~Terry

Shaun, its moot. Sally used a title that I gave her strictly as space filler until we came up with one of our own. She ran with it. I hope you folks don't mind the title. But as Lindsey reminded me in the hall just a few minutes ago with the wide imploring eyes of a deer in the headlights--we need to get things together. I will be writing to Dale Rigby because he expressed an interest in the weblog to Lindsey. I will try to get Laura and Lindsey up to speed on this weblog thing. What next?

Let's meet in "meatspace" as well as cyberspace. We all have LeNoir's rhetoric class, let's get together an hour or so before class next Thursday. We could (should?) meet before then, just make suggestions. Lindsey says she will be "scripting" her portion of the presentation. Not a bad idea. I suggest that we also do a "run-through" in Garrett 100 if we can before we present. A dress rehearsal of sorts? I am spouting. Help me out here.


Is it to be Tues at 4 we meet now? I know we were discussing this last night on break.
Carrie

I, Faker, by Paul Maliszewski: "I have a confession to make."


Thus Paul Maliszewski begins his piece about journalistic fakery and satire. It is a wicked act to spoof the "truth", but sometimes it is the only way to the Truth. Maliszewski's article is one of the best reads I have had in a long time. It chronicles the various personae he donned while a reporter at a business newspaper in central New York. While you're at it find a copy of Boob Jubilee, a collection of articles from Maliscewski's magazine, The Baffler.

OK. We are set for Nov 3d at 2:30 for the PP presentation. Would anyone like to write a quick blurb for the advertisement the CTL wants to make? It would answer this question: in a smallish nutshell, what is the presentation about?

Any takers? Also, we need to meet either digitally or in meatspace to discuss. What'll it be?

~Terry

Terry, I make the case for something simple. I don't want to come up with a supergood title that will make people think there will be a multimedia presentation and a sing along. I would rather it sound straightforward. My suggestion:
"The Courage to Teach: Lessons on Learning from Parker Palmer's work. A foray into the identity and integrity of the self that teaches." Or something around that. Anyone else have a good idea? Maybe we should put "punch and pie" on there too, more people will show up if they think there's gonna be punch and pie.
Shaun

Hmmmmmm. Punch and pie. (Homer gargle) Howsabout this based upon what Shaun suggested above "Parker Palmer's The Courage to Teach": Identity, Integrity and the Self that Teaches." OR "Identity, Integrity and the Self that Teaches: Parker Palmer's The Courage to Teach" ~Terry

I think number two sounds better Terry. - Shaun

"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment" ~Rumi

How do you teach a student to write an argumentative paper? this Ozzie has some great ideas. Contents

Finally, you may access the short notes from the Parker Palmer meeting last Tuesday here.

I will be talking to Sally Kuhl (aw heck Im tired of spelling that long name) tomorrow.

Bowling for Columbine : Library : Teacher's Guide

What every self-respecting, radically subversive, grad assistant wants---a teacher's guide for one of my favorite movies (along with, of course, The Big Lebowski) Bowling for Columbine. ~Terry

Have you got a personality? If not, yo daid. Does your personality spill over into your classroom? I should hope so. Here's a passle of tests. Try a few.

SimilarMinds.com > Free Personality Tests and Community

To those of you looking for the notes from yesterday's PP meeting: I am working on it. Slowed down by a touch of the rockin' pneumnia or the boogie-woogie flu, can't say which for sure. Post will happen today though.

Note: everybody who is a member can also edit or comment upon another persons weblog within the post. You should be able to see a little "edit" link next to each post. Let me know if you have problems with this. I am looking for some commenting software so that anyone who wants to can visit the site and comment on any post.

Sometimes you run across a new word that is just too damned cute. Yet, it is apt. To quote Churchhill: "First, we shape our structures. Then, our structures shape us."

Don DeLillo does a number on the obvious: reality is better than fiction. But he does it so damn beautifully.



abuddhas memes: "'A single seraphic word.

You can examine the word with a click, tracing its origins, development, earliest known use, its passage between languages, and you can summon the word in Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and Arabic, in a thousand languages and dialects living and dead, and locate literary citations, and follow the word through the tunnelled underworld of its ancestral roots ...

And you can glance out the window for a moment, distracted by the sound of small kids playing a made-up game in a neighbor's yard, some kind of kickball maybe, and they speak in your voice, or piggy-back races on the weedy lawn, and it's your voice you hear, essentially, under the Glimmerglass sky, and you look at the things in your room, offscreen, unwebbed, the tissued grain of the deskwood alive in light, the thick lived tenor of things, the argument of things to be seen and eaten, the apple core going sepia in the lunch tray, and the dense measure of experience in a random glance, the monk's candle reflected in the slope of the phone, hours marked in Roman numerals, and the glaze of the wax, and the curl of the braided wick, and the chipped rim of the mug that holds your yellow pencils, skewed all crazy, and the plied lives of the simplest surface, the slabbed butter melting on the crumbled bun, and the yellow of the yellow of the pencils, and you try to imagine the word on the screen becoming a thing in the world, taking all its meanings, its sense of serenities and contentments out into the streets somehow, its whisper of reconciliation, a word extending itself ever outward, the tone of agreement or treaty, the tone of repose, the sense of mollifying silence, the tone of hail and farewell, a word that carries the sunlit ardour of an object deep in drenching noon, the argument of binding touch, but it's only a sequence of pulses on a dullish screen and all it can do is make you pensive -- a word that spreads a longing through the raw sprawl of the city and out across the dreaming bourns and orchards to the solitary hills."

Shaun is off the dime. My section was on fear in teaching. The connection to identity is obvious. Parker's point is that we reach identity by passing through and beyond fear, that fear is not to be shoved aside. If we do so, then we do it at our peril. Anybody else have a take on Identity as a theme in your chapter?

Issues and challenges for Non Formal Education

Very interesting how others handle the problem of more fairly distributing "higher ed". I especially noted the breadth of community involvement:

"Therefore, IGNOU, started imparting education to the professional managers, primary and secondary school teachers, computer professionals, construction-workers, medical and health personnel, Panchayat (local bodies) members, host of NGO activists. IGNOU is endeavouring to reach out to all sections and stratas of masses, who otherwise, would have remained deprived of higher education."

They are bringing the mountain to Mohammed unlike the U.S. where we say, "Get a student loan, kid."

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Check this out. Group brainstorming is out as the mind tool of choice. Get out the knives, let's carve up another sacred cow. Homer says, "Hmmmmmmmmm. Sacred cow." My take on it is that is not always the optimal tool, but combined with individual brainstorming and the "good" social dynamic it helps create, it is still going to be in my tool box.

I love it when paradigms are turned on their heads, don't you?

Time to get off the dime on the Parker Palmer Project (PPP) (No relation to the musician Robert Palmer who died this week, way too young.) I had emailed Dr. Oakes asking if she could get us a review copy of this cool documentary about Palmer's work. She took that for a liftoff on the project and emailed Sally Kuhlenschmidt (do I get a cookie for spelling it right?) who in turn emailed me. Voila!

Here's the email I sent to her. If I left anybody out, apologies to your anonymous self. If I mispoke, tell me so I can correct it.

As I see it a first step can be any step, preferably an easy one. How about a tentative title for our project along with a brief description?

This one for Lindsey, wanna be grammah queen. The Book of Grammar.

Here's anothah, at the OWL.