One more batch of photos from Jessica

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Photos--Miscellaneous

Pictures

If anyone would like me to email a specific picture to them, please do not hesitate to contact me. traceyanne81@yahoo.com 

You can also click on the image you like to view it in its full version, and then right-click to save it to your computer. :)

Poem.

I got sentimental tonight. I admit it. I took my ice cream from J.P. Licks and I went and sat in front of Widener and then I wrote something while I was thinking about our time here. I am going to miss this place!

<3 Tracey

Wanna Skype?

I'm working on my paper (cough, cough) but I really want to throw this out to the world before I forget, before we all leave, before we all return to our various lands of educational happiness: LET'S SKYPE!

It's free. It's fun. It's fabulous!

I'd love to work with one of your classes. Even if it's on one poem, or one short story, or even if you just want your kids to say "hey" to mine, let's make some cross-country-collaboration magic happen!

Jenni

PUNK'D BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Today's "Pearls Before Swine," courtesy of my Dad

The Gutenberg Project

On Project Gutenberg's website, you can download over 33,000 full-text, free e-Books for any digital reader or computer. Many of these titles might be relevant to your research now-- I'm finding the Old/New Testament useful because it's searchable for keywords on my Mac and I'm looking for passages relevant to my Emily Dickinson research. There's also Shakespeare's complete works, among tons of others.

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page 

1966 Facsimile edition of Leaves of Grass (1855)

1966 Facsimile edition of the 1855 first edition of Whitman's Leaves of Grass on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Leaves-Grass-Eakins-Press-facsimile/dp/B001HBUVJG/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280167720&sr=8-4

Widener family home...

Saw this on the yahoo front page today and thought you might be interested in it...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100726/ap_on_re_us/us_faded_mansion


--Jenni

Whitman Archive

On The Whitman Archive website, you can view every edition published of Leaves of Grass during Whitman's lifetime. There are also e-texts, information, and page images of each edition, most notably the 1855 first edition (we saw one at the Houghton Library last week). Another page shows his manuscripts, notebooks from the Library of Congress, and some helpful guides.  Also, reviews & criticism, resources (including ideas for lesson plans), and images of Whitman and the recording we heard in the poetry room. The conditions and terms of use are only for publication, so these tools are available for our use as teachers in our classrooms. I'm hoping to use them to simulate the experience we've had at Harvard with my students.

Whitman Assignment? & etc.

Since I missed class Thursday, I'm wondering if anyone can send me their notes on the seminar?

Also, anyone care to explain the Whitman assignment to me?

Much obliged <3

Tracey
traceyanne81@yahoo.co

Exhibit A

There are no words.

Very Punny

Joel: Isn't Milton making a pun on twitching?
Helen: Don't go there.
Milton: She's right, I'm not funny like that.

Stopping by death on a rainy afternoon

This is my blog... Death stopped for this little critter in emily dickinson's garden

http://harvardyarddog.blogspot.com/2010/07/emily-dickinson-as-flower-looming-over.html

OMG

Look what I found: a website with videos of Helen lecturing on Yeats' "Among School Children": a total of 48 minutes which look (at first glance) to be similar to what we heard today:

1. Introduction to the Poem (3:15)

2. Three Greek Philosophers (6:00)

3. Yeats' Philosophical Thoughts (6:08)

4. Reading of Stanzas I through IV (9:23)

5. Reading of Stanzas V through VII (7:31)

6. Reading of Stanza VIII (12:51)

7. Conclusion (1:46)

8. Student's Comments on Professor Vendler (1:45)

Look homeward, angels

I find it useful to have someone who knows what the hell he's saying read Milton to me. So here is a link to someone doing just that:

http://ecaudio.umwblogs.org/milton-lycidas-read-by-tom-obedlam/

It takes about ten minutes to hear the whole thing.

Cheers!!
Liz

Facebook

Hi everyone,

I'm getting sentimental already. Let's hook up on Facebook!!! (No, seriously.) Look for me under 'Tracey Poole' or my email address traceyanne81@yahoo.com. Chris, Ayers, Matt and I are already Facebook friends, aren't you jealous?!?

http://www.facebook.com/tracey.poole

the fish

Hey yall,

Here is that marianne moore poem the fish.
Analysis of the grave was very helpful.
psst... moore is considered a brooklyn poet.

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-fish-6/

Books on Teaching w/ Web 2.0

This is Tracey again.

These are some great books I've read through my work with the San Joaquin Valley Writing Project. They all address the use of technology in the classroom beyond just computers and PowerPoints.

Troy Hicks The Digital Writing Workshop

Will Richardson Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts

and my personal favorite, William Kist The Socially Networked Classroom

You can see how the SJVWP is attempting to encourage the use of Web 2.0 technology in the central valley of California on our Ning: www.sanjoaquinvalleywritingproject.ning.com

Check out my SJVWP Ning blog to see my notes on Kist's book here.

Registered Users/Writers

I promise I'm not taking over the blog--especially since, until today, I have been but a faithful lurker. But I thought it might be nice if we had our own login instead of a communal one.

I am happy to set this up. Just leave a comment on this post with your name and I'll send the info to your email on our distribution list.

Or, if you'd like to take care of it yourself, log in with the communal log in, go to Dashboard, then....um...something else...possibly "Permissions" and add your email. :)

Jenni

Links from Tracey

Julie and I (Tracey) were talking about teaching yearbook today, and two of my favorite (free!) photo editing resources came up. I promised her I'd share them here, even though they're SO off topic!

Pixlr (free web-based, Photoshop-like tool) http://www.pixlr.com/editor/

Picasa (free Google software) http://www.picasa.google.com

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For anyone who wants to see/read my blog on our July at Harvard that I'm writing for my friends, family and colleagues, you can access it here: http://www.traceyatharvard.blogspot.com

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If you're wondering what I'm always giggling to myself during breaks about, you can look at these sites:

http://icanhascheezburger.com

http://failblog.org

http://thereifixedit.com

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The best place(s) ever to find awesome one-day deals:

http://www.woot.com

http://shirt.woot.com

http://kids.woot.com

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The best (and most original) blogging site on the web, where I've written daily (and anonymously) since 1999:

http://www.opendiary.com

Dickinson Homestead Pictures

Frost Artifact Pictures