George R.R. Martin visits my classes at UIC. He was so kind to do so, and there were some major fans in the group; the students seemed to really enjoy it. I think I’ve got a little more teacher cred now. Maybe they’ll all do the reading for Monday. 🙂
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Waiting to meet George and take him to my UIC classes. My hair was due for a change, so I dyed it ‘dragon fuchsia’ in his honor. (That was the actual name on the box.)
Thought some of you might want to see the next several weeks of the 200-level speculative literature (fantasy) course I’m teaching. (Previously posted the first four weeks.) This section continues to draw from Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer’s _The Big Book of Classic Fantasy_, which ends with Tolkien. In the last third of the course,
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Question — one of my writing students has an adult romantic fantasy (romantasy?) that she’s finished and is ready to start pitching. She did some research, but so far, the kinds of conferences she’s found for pitching seem pretty scammy to me — not just a registration charge, but a $30 / pitch fee, too.
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George is going to be in Chicago briefly and contacted me and another SF writer friend about getting together for dinner. I, greatly daring, asked whether he might also be willing to stop by UIC and chat with my students. He said yes, which is awfully sweet of him to squeeze into his tight schedule.
I think their heads might actually explode. Read More »
My Blackboard IT problem is finally fixed, by a very nice student worker who came to my office and was very patient. It was somewhat my fault that it wasn’t fixed faster — apparently, I submitted a ticket to the ‘BIG’ IT department, instead of my college IT department. Although you’d think they could’ve told
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Gah — my mind is a sieve. There’s an author, who writes very short stories mostly (or possibly entirely?) in dialogue. I’m pretty sure he’s male, and I keep wanting to say it’s Donald Barthelme, but I don’t think it is, but maybe it’s a similar name? Help? I’m teaching dialogue in class today, and
Who am I thinking of, here? Read More »
Thinking about yesterday’s post about e-learning — I didn’t say this in the original post, but on sleeping on it all and considering the comments in the various parent groups I also posted in, I’ll also note that I suspect many of us (if not all of us) are also dealing with unresolved trauma from
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I’m teaching a new course this semester, a 200-level speculative literature class, and I’m focusing it on fantasy. (I did SF last semester). Thought some of you might like to read along — I may post notes occasionally. So far, I think the students are liking the material, but a bit bewildered by the juxtaposition
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Sigh — my car won’t be repaired until tomorrow, and I was going to take the train in, but tech issues delayed me enough this morning that I had to get an Uber instead, to make it in time for the first day of classes. Apparently it’s going to be THAT kind of semester.
It’s going to be THAT kind of semester. Read More »
