by Dr Davis on January 21, 2010
I finished the class. I had all the folders up. I had all the assignments in the folders up. I even had pictures on some of the assignments and folders. I created a class.
It’s a class I am proud of and one that I think will work out well for my students.
The class started off with a bang. Four women posted the first day, practically the first hour the class was open.
I’ve looked and seen that many people went to the assignment, but few went to the introduction. Maybe I’ll have to give a quiz on that next time.
And it had its glitches. First, I wrote a six paragraph post and it disappeared into thin air. I’m sure that will happen to the students too.
And I still wasn’t sure how to do grades… Plus, there were no classes for teachers scheduled yet for this semester.
I took great solace in the fact that it was up and looked good though. Even if I had to grade everything individually and by hand.
by Dr Davis on January 21, 2010
There’s a new journal out from Palgrave called postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies that sounds interesting to me.
The journal will work to develop a present-minded medieval studies in which contemporary events, issues, ideas, problems, objects, and texts serve as triggers for critical investigations of the Middle Ages. Further, we are concerned to illuminate the deep historical structures–mental, linguistic, social, cultural, aesthetic, religious, political, sexual, and the like–that underlie contemporary thought and life, and therefore, we are also interested in attending to the question of the relation of the medieval to the modern (and vice versa) in different times and places. We want to also demonstrate the important value of medieval studies and the longest possible historical perspectives to the ongoing development of contemporary critical and cultural theories that remain under-historicized. Finally, we will advocate for and support the continuing development, from any and all disciplinary directions, of historicist, materialist, comparatist, and theoretical approaches to the subjects of the Middle Ages.
found via Studies of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
