Comments on: Librarians Rule! Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb http://bavatuesdays.com/librarians-rule-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-learned-to-love-the-bomb/ a "b" blog Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:14:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: jimgroom http://bavatuesdays.com/librarians-rule-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-learned-to-love-the-bomb/comment-page-1/#comment-1502 jimgroom Tue, 31 Oct 2006 04:04:09 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/?p=227#comment-1502 Thanks Matt, Jack is as enthusisatic as they come, and my class caught the bug instantly. When I met with the students the following class, they were all talking about the daisy ad and how they had seen the new GOP version on the internet. It gave us all a lot to talk about, as you can imagine. As for the research project, it all grew somewhat organically from the book I am using, <em>Ways of Reading</em>, on Mikhail's recommendation. And while the readings are intense and the subject matter is often times difficult, I find that we are all a lot more engaged during discussion and when framing the paper assignments. I am going to document some of the wiki/blog work I have been doing with this class on bavatuesdays very soon. Thestudent's blogs have really blown me a way, and I have to start showcasing there work here very soon. They more than deserve a shout out! In fact, I recently experimented with a virtual workshopping class using the wiki, and I have to say that I was pretty impressed with the possibilities of using some of these tehnologies to frame a very focused, yet distributed,writing workshop model. 101 was never this much fun! Thanks Matt,

Jack is as enthusisatic as they come, and my class caught the bug instantly. When I met with the students the following class, they were all talking about the daisy ad and how they had seen the new GOP version on the internet. It gave us all a lot to talk about, as you can imagine. As for the research project, it all grew somewhat organically from the book I am using, Ways of Reading, on Mikhail’s recommendation. And while the readings are intense and the subject matter is often times difficult, I find that we are all a lot more engaged during discussion and when framing the paper assignments.

I am going to document some of the wiki/blog work I have been doing with this class on bavatuesdays very soon. Thestudent’s blogs have really blown me a way, and I have to start showcasing there work here very soon. They more than deserve a shout out! In fact, I recently experimented with a virtual workshopping class using the wiki, and I have to say that I was pretty impressed with the possibilities of using some of these tehnologies to frame a very focused, yet distributed,writing workshop model. 101 was never this much fun!

]]> By: Matt http://bavatuesdays.com/librarians-rule-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-learned-to-love-the-bomb/comment-page-1/#comment-1448 Matt Sun, 29 Oct 2006 05:16:40 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/?p=227#comment-1448 Great post (Jack sounds wonderful) -- and great research assignment! Great post (Jack sounds wonderful) — and great research assignment!
]]> By: jimgroom http://bavatuesdays.com/librarians-rule-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-learned-to-love-the-bomb/comment-page-1/#comment-1344 jimgroom Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:33:16 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/?p=227#comment-1344 Interesting you should say that Mikhail, because when I saw the Daisy ad for the first time Monday night all I could think about while watching the little girl picking petals from the flower was the scene from <em>Frankenstein</em> you're talking about. This vision of innocence from a classic film reframed for nuclear annhilation may have been a more apparent allusion in '64 than it is today -making the visual rhetroic of that commercial that much more powerful in its historical context. I am really struck by the aesthetic differences between the two ads, the 60s ads is visually so much more gripping and affective than the current iteration. Seems to me that the GOP has seen one too many music videos!:) Interesting you should say that Mikhail, because when I saw the Daisy ad for the first time Monday night all I could think about while watching the little girl picking petals from the flower was the scene from Frankenstein you’re talking about. This vision of innocence from a classic film reframed for nuclear annhilation may have been a more apparent allusion in ‘64 than it is today -making the visual rhetroic of that commercial that much more powerful in its historical context. I am really struck by the aesthetic differences between the two ads, the 60s ads is visually so much more gripping and affective than the current iteration. Seems to me that the GOP has seen one too many music videos!:)
]]> By: Mikhail http://bavatuesdays.com/librarians-rule-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-learned-to-love-the-bomb/comment-page-1/#comment-1342 Mikhail Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:04:17 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/?p=227#comment-1342 Great post, Jim. Doesn't the Goldwater ad take something from Frank Whale's 1933 Frankenstein or ia that just a coincidence? Just thought I'd throw that in. Great post, Jim. Doesn’t the Goldwater ad take something from Frank Whale’s 1933 Frankenstein or ia that just a coincidence? Just thought I’d throw that in.
]]> By: Roy Strohl http://bavatuesdays.com/librarians-rule-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-learned-to-love-the-bomb/comment-page-1/#comment-1315 Roy Strohl Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:22:31 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/?p=227#comment-1315 Thanks Jim. You captured the enthusiasm that Jack brings to all of his classes. He is a great spokesman for what is so exciting in the contemporary library and the use of the new information techonologies. Thanks. Roy Thanks Jim.

You captured the enthusiasm that Jack brings to all of his classes. He is a great spokesman for what is so exciting in the contemporary library and the use of the new information techonologies.

Thanks.
Roy

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