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Trumix.com listings available of Gardner Writes Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Excerpting audio from ITConversations Promising new functionality from ITConversations: one can build a URL that will excerpt a portion of the recorded audio. I’m testing it here: [audio clip] The only hitch in the get-along is the requirement to specify a start time “after the intro.” As a former ITConversations post-production audio editor, I reckon this means after the show theme, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Samuel Taylor Coleridge I was privileged to read several lyrics by Coleridge this past Thursday as part of the University of Mary Washington’s venerable “Thursday Poems” series. The idea is simple: gather on Thursday afternoon to hear someone read thirty minutes worth of poetry. No lectures, minimal commentary, mostly just great verse. My colleague and mentor Bill Kemp [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A conversation with Errol Morris This is my 500th blog post. To mark the occasion, I’m podcasting an interview I did with filmmaker Errol Morris back in March, 1997. The audio, alas, isn’t very good. I hadn’t planned to put the audio out at all, actually; the tape recorder was there as a backup to my notes, just as it was [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website M-Learning Presentation at the Virginia Library Association 2007 Conference Since I took up this work in 2003, I’ve met some great, great people. One of them is Liz Kocevar-Weidinger, Instruction and Reference Services Librarian at Longwood University. Liz is a very creative and imaginative person who understands the power of metaphor and has an uncommonly interesting strategic sense of how libraries can become vital [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Structures and Emergence The new term begins in ten days, and I’m thinking about how to prep the sandbox for the fifteen weeks that follow. Truthfully, “thinking” is too mild a word. “Yearning” is more like it: yearning for the inspiration and insight into form, tempo, and activities that will give my students their best chance at surprising [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Windhover Photo from A Different Voice, a thoughtful blog I discovered while searching for this image. Here’s a poem I’ve treasured for thirty years. I remember vividly my first encounter with Hopkins, at the end of a Victorian Poetry class with Dillon Johnston at Wake Forest University. We’d gone through Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold–Arnold who [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Introduction to John Milton The John Milton Cottage, where Milton wrote the final parts of “Paradise Lost.” From time to time, I teach a course called British Literature to 1800, usually with another professor or two so we can distribute expertise, keep the sections smaller, and do some tag-team lecturing at the Big Lecture Moments during the course. I’ve taught [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Deschool, Reboot, Real School Like everyone else in the known universe, I’m finishing up a grant application this weekend. I’m on the last piece, a two-page version of my curriculum vitae, and I’m citing URLs where audio of my recent presentations can be found. As I do so, I realize I need to bring audio from my February, 2007 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Digital Imagination (Take One) The calm before the storm, as conference attendees settle in and get ready to hear me hold forth on “The Digital Imagination,” my keynote talk at yesterday’s opening of the fourth annual Teaching and Learning With Technology Conference at James Madison University. My thanks to Jim, Andrea, and Mary Ann for being such wonderful [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From every shire’s ende … With apologies to V. A. (Del) Kolve, whose pronunciation I am trying hard to imitate (listen to number six here for an example of Mr. Kolve’s reading), and Terry Kennedy, our dynamic medievalist-in-residence, who will no doubt differ with me on certain details (philologists! ach, du lieber!), I offer here a recitation of the first [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My Computer Romance Reading Brian’s post on his splendid EDUCAUSE Review mashup article (go read it right this red hot second–you will thank me, I promise), I realize I have yet to blog on my essay in the Sept/Oct. issue, or post a link to the podcast, or give my thanks. Although this post cannot begin to express [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Apt Numbers, or, Sense Variously Drawn Out Monday I was honored to deliver the keynote address for the 2007 Kemp Symposium here at the University of Mary Washington. The event is named for Bill Kemp, a Shakespearean who taught at UMW for over 30 years, and it showcases work done by students in English, Linguistics, and Speech courses.A few notes about [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An encore you may ignore Shannon over at Loaded Learning asked for a copy for her iPod, so here it is: a hi-res newly mastered mp3 of my one brief shining moment of low-level metro pop radio accomplishment: “My Favorite Town.” Hard to believe it’s been two years since I first posted the tune. A lifetime ago in many respects. For [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Life Online 2007: The Students Speak L-R: Gardner Campbell (moderator), Shannon Hauser, Serena Epstein, Ben Vigeant, Adam Turner Last Saturday UMW’s Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies hosted its fourth annual Student Academy on Information Technologies. Like last year, this year’s event closed with a student panel speaking to the general topic of “Life Online.” Acting DTLT Director Martha Burtis invited me [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Readathon soundscape Yes, this time I had to eat the apple. (Photo credit: Serena Epstein.) I feel like my circadian rhythms are nearly back to normal, but before I altogether lose that all-night altered consciousness, I thought it might be good silly fun to podcast some poignant readathon moments from this year’s event. In order, you’ll hear the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ken Burns interview redux An experiment in audio restoration, at Jon Udell’s suggestion. I finished taking out the mechanical clicks (this was a manual process, oy) and then turned my efforts to ameliorating the high-pitched hum in the background. Working in Sound Forge, I ended up with a parametric EQ notch of -6.5 db and a bandwidth (or “Q”) [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with Ken Burns, February 2003 Four years ago, and what seems like a lifetime away, I was fortunate to be able to speak with filmmaker Ken Burns just before his Fredericksburg Forum appearance at the University of Mary Washington (then Mary Washington College). The interview was published some time ago, but in my newly urgent dedication to getting my archives [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lyrics by Robert Herrick Sometimes I wonder: what would it be like if I blogged almost everything?Today, then, I’d blog about a Milton seminar class in which I did most of the talking and ended rather dispirited, only to find via the class syllabus wiki that one very attentive student had not only taken it all in but transformed [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Milton podcast: Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity I’m teaching my Milton seminar this spring for the first time in a couple of years, and I want to try podcasting some of Milton’s poetry and prose as (I hope) aids to comprehension. As always, I find that recording the words forces a certain kind of attention that I might not otherwise find. This time, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website “God’s World,”by Edna St. Vincent Millay Betsy at “It’s All Connected” shared this sonnet with me in a comment on the Keats podcast below. The poem spoke to me, and I wanted to try to read it aloud. I’d like to hear Betsy do it, and I’d like to hear my beloved English professor Elizabeth Phillips read it too (she very [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website “To Autumn,” by John Keats For the past few days I’ve spied Jack Frost on the grass around my house. The tang of fall is in the air, and in honor of the season, I read “To Autumn,” by John Keats. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website First UR Podcast: Extending the Class Last week Kevin Creamer, Liaison Coordinator for the University of Richmond’s Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology, sat me down for a quick chat about information technologies in education. As you’ll hear in this podcast, Kevin was interested in some of the larger thinking behind my enthusiasm for particular technologies such as blogs and wikis. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Faculty Academy 2006 Podcast: What is Web 2.0? So far I’ve been doing all the post-production on these Faculty Academy podcasts. That will change–time to share the joy–but it has been a tremendous learning experience for me, and it puts me in the mind of an assignment for students. A seminar format would be perfect. What if each presentation were recorded to be [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Faculty Academy 2006 Podcast: Jon Udell Keynote Address on 21st Century Literacy About fifteen months after Jerry Slezak introduced me to the wonders of Jon Udell, I was standing before a capacity crowd in Combs 139 introducing Jon as the keynote speaker for Faculty Academy 2006. Now, almost two months after that introduction, you too can enjoy this moment. Beginning with Teilhard de Chardin and Doug Engelbart, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Faculty Academy 2006 Podcast: Rachel Smith on Gaming in Education The next podcast from the University of Mary Washington’s Faculty Academy 2006 features Rachel Smith of the New Media Consortium. Her topic: “Gaming in Education.” Rachel has inspired a number of changes in my life, including some recent investigations into Second Life. That exploration has had several effects: some impassioned conversation, sometimes a little less sleep [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Faculty Academy 2006 Podcast: A Conversation on Blogging at UMW Our first Faculty Academy 2006 session after the general welcome was a plenary panel discussion/presentation on blogging at UMW. Session leader Steve Greenlaw enticed, coaxed, and otherwise motivated a whole raft of bloggers from many disciplines and both campuses into sharing how they’ve used (or in one case, refused to use) blogs in their teaching [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Faculty Academy 2006 Podcasts begin: A Fantastico Expedition I don’t have a very elegant beginning crafted here. That’s a shame, but it would be an even bigger shame not to begin at all, so here’s the first podcast from the 2006 UMW Faculty Academy on Instructional Technologies. This lunchtime session on May 17 was entitled “A Fantastico Expedition: Massive Web Innovation on $6.95 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jessica Rigel reads“The Flea” I was about to write that “The Flea,” one of Donne’s most famous, even notorious libertine seduction poems, changes its character radically when a woman reads it, but I don’t think that’s true. I think the poem stays the same. What changes, at least to some extent, is one’s horizon of expectations with regard to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Charlotte Naas reads“Witchcraft by a Picture” In today’s Donne Seminar podcast, Charlotte Naas reads one of Donne’s less-well-known poems, “Witchcraft by a Picture.” Such is Donne’s sharply marked poetic character, though, that you could probably tell it was one of his even if I hadn’t told you. Try the experiment: play the poem for your nearest English major or poetry lover, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zac Smith reads “Elegy 3: Change” Here’s Zac Smith reading Donne’s “Elegy 3: Change.” Donne’s elegies (in the Renaissance, “elegy” could mean any discursive or meditative poem, and could include even bawdy, Romanesque poems, as Donne demonstrates) are particularly interesting as indications of his wit and his skill at arguing several sides of the same issue, sometimes all at once. “Elegy [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Emily Williams reads “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” Here’s the second of the Donne Seminar podcasts from the class I led last semester. In this one, Emily Williams reads “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning.” I don’t want to comment on any of these readings in particular: the students already know my evaluation of their work, and listeners can form their own judgments. I will [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcasts from the Donne Seminar Last fall I led a seminar on the poetry and prose of John Donne here at the University of Mary Washington. As part of my preparation for the seminar, I began my “Donne a Day” podcast series in the summer. As part of the culmination of the seminar, I recorded student readings of Donne’s work [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website UMW’s Claudia Emerson Awarded 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry My friend and colleague Claudia Emerson received some thrilling news this afternoon: her third book, Late Wife, has been awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. The Pulitzer site doesn’t permit easy linking to specific pages, so here’s the Arts and Letters list as published this afternoon: Letters, Music and Drama Awards FICTION March by Geraldine Brooks [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Power of Podcasting in Teaching and Learning Here’s a podcast of my presentation last Sunday at the “E-Learning Futures” pre-conference workshop for the 2006 University Continuing Education Association conference. The occasion represented a number of firsts for me. It was my first presentation for this organization. I hope it won’t be my last, as I found my colleages at the conference to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast at Long Last: Andrew Marvell As a prelude to the next podcast series on Gardner Writes, here’s a reading I did a couple of weeks ago of poetry by Andrew Marvell. The reading was part of our UMW “Thursday Poems” series, a marvelous tradition begun by now-professor-emeritus Bill Kemp. The idea is to congregate at 5 p.m. on Thursday afternoons [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Deficit of Joy Podcasts a part of the read/write Web? You bet they are. But that’s an argument for another post. Right now I want to share a snippet of an inspiring podcast I found via The University Channel. Dr. David Orr, Professor and Chair of the Environmental Studies Program at Oberlin College, spoke on “The End of Education” [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Portmanteaublog all over again I need to get caught up here. Reading: Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke. No one does a music biography as well as Peter Guralnick, and this is a wonderful follow-up to the acclaimed two-volume Elvis biography. So far Sam’s still with the Soul Stirrers, but he’s watching Little Richard burn up the charts with “Tutti [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Donne A Day 25: The Relique (First Take) My first set of attempts at recording and commenting on “The Relique” was spoiled by a technical problem: I thought I was using one microphone, but in fact was using the built-in microphone on my tablet PC. I redid the recording to get a better-sounding podcast. So why podcast the spoiled attempt? Because I think [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Donne A Day 24: The Relique As so often happens, I began this reading with great admiration for the poem and ended more than a little awestruck by it.Some thoughts on that awe. A successful or at least meaningful performance demands commitment, in time; a committed process or a process of commitment, in other words. And from that commitment, vital [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Donne A Day 22: Holy Sonnet 14 A dark epiphany at lunch today. I hope it’s an example of lifelong learning.The audio isn’t as polished as usual. Perhaps that’s apt. I wanted the iron-fresh odor before it dissipated, so I rushed the recording. But not the reading. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ?There?s Something in the Air: Podcasting in Education? I’m at the 2005 EDUCAUSE convention and getting ready for tomorrow’s pre-conference workshop on digital assets management. I’m also looking forward to a reunion with some friends–friends I didn’t know just two years ago, when I first came to EDUCAUSE.I’ve already heard from one of those friends, Bryan Alexander, who tells me the advance [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tablet PC Congratulations Screencast There's so much inspiration and wonder in what Will Richardson does in his job, and generously shares with us on Weblogg-ed, that it feels a little odd to single out one thing. But this little treasure is so compelling that I want to try to explain a little bit of its power over my imagination [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Repost of?Valediction: of the Booke? Apparently the RSS feed didn't kick in for some reason, at least in my iTunes subscription. Apologies for the repost. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Donne A Day 17: Twicknam Garden "Twicknam Garden" both celebrates and subverts the Renaissance garden as a place of refuge from city life, a place that recalls the harmonious union of art and nature that was lost when Adam and Eve were expelled from Paradise, the original garden. As you'll hear, there are some unpleasant moments of self-aggrandisement and bitterness in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Claiming my Odeo Channel So much research, so little time: My Odeo Channel (odeo/52b27e7ec884eae7).Thanks for listening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Donne A Day 16:?A Valediction: of My Name, in the Window? Quite a philosophical romp this time, as well as an unusually long ADAD podcast: upwards of fifteen minutes (you have been warned). The poem takes up most of that time, though I confess I found myself warming to the explication as I went along. You may be the judge of whether that process produces more [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Donne A Day 15:?The Anniversarie? Not to be confused with "The First Anniversarie," a completely different poem, "The Anniversarie" celebrates what I take to be the first anniversary of Donne's marriage to Ann Donne. No one knows which, if any, of Donne's Songs and Sonnets are addressed to or inspired by his wife, so perhaps I may be forgiven my [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Donne A Day 14:?Breake Of Daye.? Of the many poems in Donne's Songs and Sonnets, this is the only one written from the point of view and in the voice of the female beloved. Lyrical, pragmatic, accusatory, and poignant, this poem demonstrates Donne's self-awareness as he imagines the charges his beloved could bring against him.Enjoy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Donne A Day 13:?Aire and Angels? There's lots to argue about and mull over in this famously difficult lyric. My commentary advances one view, and I hope it's coherent and plausible, but I'm sure it is not definitive. The enigmas will outlive us all.Parallelism, or chiasmus? You be the judge. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Donne A Day 12:?A Feaver? The tone in this lyric is tricky. Not because it's ambiguous: the anxiety and grief are palpable throughout. No, the tone is tricky because even in the keening pitch of sorrow, the poet sends the emotion through very tangled syntax that demands careful attention, and such syntactic manipulation seems somehow antithetical to a rush of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Donne A Day 11:?The Legacie? This one's a toughie. As in "Sweetest Love," Donne imagines every parting as a kind of death. True to form, he takes that "death" as another chance to analyze what it means to be in love. Parting is a kind of test case, then, that allows him a peculiarly intense opportunity for reflection. And the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Donne A Day 10:?Song: Sweetest Love, I Do Not Go? I should try to find a musical setting of this poem, if not for the podcast (it's not "podsafe" music, I'msure) then for the class I'll teach in the fall. For all his intellectual fireworks, Donne can be intensely lyrical, as I hope my reading demonstrates. He's never just lyrical, or not for long, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Donne A Day 9:?Lovers?Infiniteness? Donne fully indulges his love of paradox in this poem. At his best, though, Donne lights on a paradox he seems to have invented, but in reality has only discovered. Listen carefully to this poem, several times, and if my reading holds up you'll gradually become aware that a fundamental question of identity, commitment, and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website