I teach at a small university in rural Texas and have begun teaching all of my courses online. As a writer and a teacher, I wish my students to experience writing in real life situations. While most of their original work in process will be uploaded to our class platform, I have decided to begin assigning reflecting and reading journals online.
The first course I will be using blogger for is my graduate creative writing workshop during our first summer term in 2008. Students will not have an assigned textbook; instead, I am compiling lists of poetry resources online (which I will eventually post here), and asking students to find their own. Additionally, some of the assignments will allow students to experiment with creating poetry to be read solely in an electronic environment. I always participate in the experiments I assign students, and will included my own posts reading and reflecting on poetry.
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- Robin
- I teach creative writing and critical theory at a small university in Texas. I am currently teaching all my courses online and will be assigning students to blog for a number of my classes. I am a writer of original poetry and fiction as well as fan fiction. My scholarship includes work on women and sf, Tolkien, Jackson, and fandom.
Two Trees
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Why name tamarisk and terebinth?
SW 'invasive' "salt tamarisk"? and pistacia terebinthus, the tree from which early modern 'turpentine' was derived?
I'm sorry--I'm not logged in, and cannot remember how after all this time.
"Tamarask and terebinth" are two of the trees in Tolkien's first description of Ithilien, my favorite place in the novel, The Lord of the Rings. I'm not sure his are the same as the ones you mention here--but I always liked the names and the pictures I found were lovely.
Robin
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