I’ve been invited to talk about study abroad at the Cultural Journeys undergraduate conference. I decided to use music and images to convey my enthusiasm. So, I put together a video of my photography from my 2009 and 2011 travels.
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Mysterious Monsters
Back in the seventies, from what my brain remembers, there was a fascination with what was then termed “mysterious monsters.” I distinctly remember films about Bigfoot, and they frankly scared the shit out of me.
The New Kindle 3
This looks like something that every one of my students would enjoy. Finally, a technology to get even the most apathetic student reading. What can’t digital technology accomplish? I also like their tagline: “So advanced, even illiterates can use it!”
Prop 8: The Musical
This video just points out the absurdity of Proposition 8 and ideologies that inform referenda like it. It reminds me of something the late, great George Carlin said (and I paraphrase poorly): right-wing anti-abortionists should be pro-gay. Who has less abortions than homosexuals?
Don’t Need Anything
I’ve got gardens growing, got quiet days / clothes on my back, food on my plate / got friends to help me if I call for them / don’t need anything I don’t have
Giroux on Education
Henry Giroux states, in “Obama and the Promise of Education“: As I’ve learned during the past eight years: democracy cannot be fruitful without an educated, engaged citizenry. Perhaps we can finally put the time of anti-intellectualism behind us.
To P-town
This video is a few shots I took with the Flip on the drive out to Provincetown last month for the Norman Mailer Society Conference. I took the Flip meaning to film much more of what will probably be my last time in Provincetown, but I only remembered to use it on the way in. My bad. I did get photographs.
