"Collaboration in the Writing Classroom: Can Pedagogy and Technology Get Along?" is now available via Google Docs. The slideshow is part of a teaching demonstration RBM delivered to The Denver Writing Project in June.
In all seriousness, sometimes I wonder if big symposiums on this topic really do anything. Don't you think we just need to start getting a few tenured professors on the tech bandwagon in order to legitmize the practice of using new media in the classroom? Otherwise, it's just a bunch of fresh-minted MA or Ph.D.'s talking about how things need to change. Or maybe those youngbloods should be the ones to just, like, you know, do it. Try something new. Fuck the consequences. If it's something you believe in, do it now and deal with the potential institutional explanations later. That's just, like, my opinion, though. Such as.
I know a couple of professors, here and elsewhere, aiming for the goalposts in the manner you suggest. But in being a new media hero you do risk flashy, untimely death.
RBM recently delivered a reading and talk on Transmigration and the Fictional Essay—adapted from his creative dissertation, The Land of Infinite Variety, a collection of linked prose—at the 55th annual conference of the Western Literature Association. One of the collection's stories has received the WLA's creative writing award for 2020.
RBM has joined the editorial board of The Liminal: Interdisciplinary Journal of Technology in Education, based at the University of Denver's digital commons. The journal's first issue asked how #highered should respond to "fake news" in a post-truth world. Our current CFP (due Sept. 15, 2020), focusing on higher education's role in the development of smart cities, can be found here.
The Society of Professional Journalists Western Washington chapter named RBM its 2019 Journalism Educator of the Year. He and other honorees delivered remarks at the Northwest Excellence in Journalism Awards Party in July at Optimism Brewing Company in Seattle.
Having concluded his doctoral work at the University of South Dakota, RBM no longer edits nonfiction for South Dakota Review, but remains a loyal subscriber. Among other fond memories: celebrating SDR's 50th anniversary in Seattle and presenting a panel on creative writing pedagogy with former managing editor Sara Henning at the 2014 AWP Conference: "Teaching Brief, Sudden, Flash, and Very Short Prose."
RBM currently teaches English at Clark College as an affiliate faculty member. From 2015-19, he also served as Washington State University Vancouver's first adviser dedicated to student media. In an open letter to the Student Media Board, he explained his resignation, effective Dec. 6, 2019. He lives in Portland with his partner and daughter and a red canoe of ridiculous dimensions.
In all seriousness, sometimes I wonder if big symposiums on this topic really do anything. Don't you think we just need to start getting a few tenured professors on the tech bandwagon in order to legitmize the practice of using new media in the classroom? Otherwise, it's just a bunch of fresh-minted MA or Ph.D.'s talking about how things need to change. Or maybe those youngbloods should be the ones to just, like, you know, do it. Try something new. Fuck the consequences. If it's something you believe in, do it now and deal with the potential institutional explanations later.
ReplyDeleteThat's just, like, my opinion, though. Such as.
I know a couple of professors, here and elsewhere, aiming for the goalposts in the manner you suggest. But in being a new media hero you do risk flashy, untimely death.
ReplyDeletei regret that i have but one life to give to my discipline.
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that was a dumb comment. i'm at the dregs of my wit, i had to sell raffle tickets at a benefit yesterday. that kind of constant charm is EXHAUSTING.
Just remember Liz: it takes a village, not a hero.
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