• Of Censorship and Interactive Fiction, and much else besides

    I decided to take an online course from The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research for the October/November session this year. If I could clone myself, I would take three of their courses for every session. They’re short (four weeks) and intensive (3 hr sessions, with some serious required reading) and no tests or certificates. Just…

  • AI in education- things are progressing, fast!

    Last Friday, one of our PA sessions was devoted to the Role of AI in the classroom. Yes, yes it was! It was led by a staff committee, 1/2 of which were teacher librarians. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, you want to find people in a high school who are most…

  • curators and caretakers

    The past couple of weeks have been so busy, (and zombifyingly hot), that I am only now getting to writing about my experiences at ELO 2025, a conference organized by the Electronic Literature Organization. In Friday morning’s keynote, Scott Rhettberg, one of the founders of the organization and the first executive director, told an “unexpurgated…

  • dis word

    I began my first class of this semester, as I almost always do, with an exploration of Lillian Allen’s poem, “dis word.” dis word dis word breeds my rhythmdis word carries my freedomdis word is my hand: my weapon I supplied my students with a biography of Lillian Allen early on in our encounter. I…