http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ogde0004/blogden/ What a tangled web (log) we weave en-us 2006-05-09T10:31:04-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ogde0004/blogden/045716.html An archive of our Oral Memoirs is compiled here in mp3 format: mitch.mp3 7:20 10.1 MB megh.mp3 5:48 8.0 MB katie.mp3 4:58 6.9 MB cyndy.mp3 3:50 5.3 MB aaron.mp3 4:08 5.7 MB talia.mp3 3:59 5.5 MB mikee.mp3 3:53 5.0 MB... EngL 3741: Literacy ogde0004 2006-05-09T10:31:04-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ogde0004/blogden/038246.html Entrance into a new technology necessitates exposure to jargon. To the extent that we can keep track of that jargon and remember what the host of acronyms, coinages, and technical appropriations mean, we can keep up with a technological discourse... EngL 3741: Literacy ogde0004 2006-02-14T10:31:28-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ogde0004/blogden/037834.html I've asked you (EngL 3741 students) to set up a blog and to post your initial and tentative ideas for your public project this semester. I thought I might just muse on what I would do if I was in... EngL 3741: Literacy ogde0004 2006-02-09T20:00:41-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ogde0004/blogden/037827.html My incompletes were resolved in December. I started shaping my reading list immediately. Now I have a tentative exam date: April 25. The oral exam will follow on May 12. Four of five committee members have confirmed. Here's hoping for... Toward a PhD ogde0004 2006-02-09T19:58:04-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ogde0004/blogden/031839.html Although we practice literacy on a constant, recurring basis (I am doing it now. You are too.), we generally neglect a serious investigation of it. Literacy is tacitly assumed for (and practiced by) the intended audience of this course description.... EngL 3741: Literacy ogde0004 2005-11-09T15:51:06-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ogde0004/blogden/030814.html Twice a year we graduate students get giddy. It happens sometime in October and April each year when our teaching assignments are released. The most recent reveal has just occurred and I admit I am a bit distracted from other,... Toward a PhD ogde0004 2005-10-26T15:00:04-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ogde0004/blogden/030217.html These many months later I have just finished my presentation/paper for the IWCA conference in Minneapolis tomorrow. Given the fact that my incompletes still dangle and my reading list exists only as the flicker of an idea, I begrudge having... Toward a PhD ogde0004 2005-10-19T15:16:23-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ogde0004/blogden/025385.html Wrapping up a week that saw some progress on my incompletes, I'm feeling pretty satisfied with what I've done. I know, however, that I won't be completed with either paper before my brother gets off the plane tomorrow. He has... Toward a PhD ogde0004 2005-08-05T15:48:58-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ogde0004/blogden/025372.html The summer has rushed by. My primarily academic goal has been to finish two incompletes by completing two seminar papers. I have had plenty of time to do it, yet I'm not sure how close I am to finishing. I'm... Toward a PhD ogde0004 2005-08-05T10:02:02-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ogde0004/blogden/025374.html Today, without notice, I decided I'd start to document my progress towards finishing my PhD in English at the University of Minnesota. My friend Dave just submitted his completed draft of his dissertation to his committee earlier this week and... Toward a PhD ogde0004 2005-08-04T10:08:36-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ogde0004/blogden/012388.html One of the primary modes/models of learning in our class has been the practice of reflecting in advance on a defined topic and then reflecting together in a small group in the classroom. Given how much time we spent in... Literacy and Identity ogde0004 2004-12-16T11:59:53-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ogde0004/blogden/012263.html I realize that all of my response are simply my way of talking about what I read. These thoughts come without excessive premeditation, and so they resemble Carver’s narrative in the ordinary, around-the-kitchen-table banter central to it. This is what... Literacy and Identity ogde0004 2004-11-10T22:57:00-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ogde0004/blogden/012264.html If there is a guilty pleasure in my media consumption, it is the reality TV shows that have been promulgated on prime time television over the past years. I’m talking about the shows that, while they share a certain ancestry... Literacy and Identity ogde0004 2004-11-04T13:08:33-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ogde0004/blogden/008930.html It is the first election in which I find myself a father. I brought my boy, together with my wife, to our local polling place at the Tuttle School in Minneapolis. It was probably the first public, civic moment of... Community Engagement ogde0004 2004-11-02T11:49:26-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ogde0004/blogden/008667.html Since the beginning of the term I have been certain that I wanted to devote my case study to Mai Neng Moua. Mai Neng is the founder and long-time editor of Paj Ntaub Voice, the only literary arts journal for... Literacy and Identity ogde0004 2004-10-28T13:50:42-06:00