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Spring 2009
Spring is in the air and I have been out doing some serious bush-walking in and around where I live. A few days ago I plunged down to the base of Lyre-Bird Gully behind my place and caught the morning mist rising off the confluence of fresh water and sea down near Berowra waters. This…
Hello All
This is the beginning of the next stage of our venture into using a Blogging tool to extend our experience of literature together. I feel optimistic that WordPress is going to provide all that LiveJournal did and more. Please explore all its functions and let me know if you have any problems. It is a…
e-Portfolio
Hi all- I am the proud completer of my very first e-Portfolio. Having set so many of you the task of producing the same I thought it high time that I should follow suit- especially since we are all migrating to Word-Press next semester and I thought I should get my hands dirty. The experience…
Happy Birthday Pablo
Hi Pablo- hope all is going well out at UWS… keep in touch when you have time. I will be teaching down at MIssion Australia from September Michael
First WordPress Test Post for MG Literature and Life
So this is where i am going to experiment with the pros and cons of WordPress. Really interested to see how it stacks up with LiveJournal.
Hello world!
Welcome to WordPress.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it and start blogging!
Third Year Trawl- the best of the bunch (and there are more!):
http://john-mahoney.livejournal.com/ http://elisriture.livejournal.com http://aussielatina.livejournal.com/ http://reilly88.livejournal.com/ http://stever1.livejournal.com http://geebusd.livejournal.com/ http://rebeccabragg.livejournal.com http://katdaly.livejournal.com/ http://callie-acu.livejournal.com/ ENJOY MG
Nominate Me to the LiveJournal Advisory Board
Hi all- I am looking for support in my nomination to the LiveJournal Advisory Board. If you want to give me this support then please click on: http://community.livejournal.com/lj_election_en/30022.html and simply make a supportive comment about the benefits of using LJ under my guidance.
Second Year Trawl Completed
Check out some of these extraordinary contributions to LJ Autumn 2009 (PS that’s me 3rd from the right before I had my beard shaved recently!) : http://8-tigerlily-8.livejournal.com/24334.htmlhttp://manubis-alfonzo.livejournal.com/11906.htmlhttp://bomsaii.livejournal.com/17349.html http://beckyluvsty.livejournal.com/ http://bubb26.livejournal.com/ http://melissacalleja.livejournal.com/ http://ndelmas.livejournal.com/ http://emilygray33.livejournal.com http://mathsnerd.livejournal.com/ http://lucy2311.livejournal.com/ http://kellyscutts.livejournal.com/ http://hallatia.livejournal.com/ http://nickwhittard.livejournal.com/ http://naffs.livejournal.com/ Enjoy MG… and thank you all for your creative efforts!
First Year Trawl Completed
Here are the top 6 first year LJs for the first half of 2009: http://agoodventure.livejournal.com/ http://clopez-87.livejournal.com/ http://summi91.livejournal.com http://chrisoneill.livejournal.com/ http://moniquea289.livejournal.com/ http://nspells.livejournal.com/ http://ashlee-stevens.livejournal.com I would just like to share with you also this reflection from one of you (who I will leave as anonymous –unless he or she wants to be publicized- ). I thought this…
Great Entries from Autumn 2009
I am doing my grand T R A W L through LJ Autumn/Winter 2009. Here is a growing stock pile of some fabulous, thought-provoking entries. I am so pleased that "Blogging" has paid off so handsomely for most of the the literature students engaged in this activity. Next semester (for good or ill) we are all…
Past student visits her home Uni with her (LiveJournal Proficient)students from St Agnes Catholic
justine 1985, former literature student at our uni has just visited her campus with her students from St Agnes Catholic. She was so excited to tell me that she has been using LiveJournal with immense success in her literature classes at school where she -as a direct result of her LiveJournal experience- has become a…
Unsolicited Support for LiveJournal from Third Year Student
Our third year GenY students have had five semesters of LiveJournal in their literature units. This has been an amazing opportunity for students to extend their experience of literature through open source technology. It is directly in line with their own use of such technologies and has enabled them to discover how this technology can…
LIVE JOURNAL MUST STAY- COMMENT FROM LAST YEAR'S 3RD YEAR
This comment has just been posted below by one of our most creative users of LiveJournal. A student of literature for six semesters ghettoman’s LJ is a work of art in its own right. Be sure to havea browse through this amazing LJ . Here is Ghettoman’s reflections on six semesters of LJ: "Live journal…
LIVE JOURNAL MUST STAY- COMMENT FROM LAST YEAR'S 3RD YEAR
This comment has just been posted below by one of our most creative users of LiveJournal. A student of literature for six semesters ghettoman’s LJ is a work of art in its own right. Be sure to havea browse through this amazing LJ . Here is Ghettoman’s reflections on six semesters of LJ: "Live journal…
LIVE JOURNAL MUST STAY- COMMENT FROM LAST YEAR’S 3RD YEAR
This comment has just been posted below by one of our most creative users of LiveJournal. A student of literature for six semesters ghettoman’s LJ is a work of art in its own right. Be sure to havea browse through this amazing LJ . Here is Ghettoman’s reflections on six semesters of LJ: "Live journal…
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Bell Shakespeare News- up and coming
This message just arrived in my inbox. I am sure our Shakespeareans will be interested. Pericles looks especially good (click thrice to see text): This play is another instance of Renaissance “artists” being passionately interested in stories from ancient Greece and Rome. But the play was also inspired by Shakespeare’s interest in legends that had…
First Year Drama Performances!!!!! Loads of Energy…
Here are some collages of fabulous first years in action, working with contemporary play texts by Woody Allen “Death Knocks”, Eugene O’Neill, “The Hairy Ape”, Joyce Carol Oates “Tone Clusters”, Susan Glaspell “Trifles” and Milcha Sanchez-Scott “The Cuban Swimmer”. This is the end of the semester’s work using Schwiebert’s “Reading and Writing from Literature”. Drama…
The Fruits of our Shakespearean Labours
Such a fabulous set of performances of Shakespeare by Year 3 09. Congratulations to all – you managed so beautifully to implement the examples and advice given by our Bell Shakespeare coach, Matt. So good to have Shakespeare mediated into our bodies by someone with such experience. Enjoy the feast of impressions (and remember- click…
Bell Shakespeare Works With Third Year Students
What a fabulous experience we had this week with Matt Edgerton, actor with the Bell Shakespeare Company working with my third year Shakespeare students. For the past 10 weeks I have been preaching the gospel of William Shakespeare, telling about his amazing ideas on life, his fabulous creative power, his extraordinary harnessing of the intellectual…
Shakespeare 09 Best LiveJournal URLs- Showcase….
What an amazing collection of LiveJournals from third years for the first half of this semester. I feel really honoured that you are all using this space so passionately and with a real sense of how it is expanding your creative possibilities. I honestly think that some of the best learning is going on in…
A Fabulous Crop of Literature and Life LiveJournals:
Have just trawled through another batch of LJs and have been blown away by the amazing way in which, overall, you are using LJ as a space to enhance your appreciation of literature, to evoke creative responses in yourself to your reading and to build the LJ community through your thoughtful interactions. Thank you all…
Professor Sam Bernstein's visit from Boston
Prof Bernstein came this week to stay with us and to give my students a fabulous, powerful lecture on Eugene O’Neill’s “The Hairy Ape”, a play that has been called a thought provoking “condemnation of the dehumanizing effects of industrialization” (http://www.enotes.com/hairy-ape). It is a play that managed to attract the attention of the FBI, for…
Professor Sam Bernstein's visit from Boston
Prof Bernstein came this week to stay with us and to give my students a fabulous, powerful lecture on Eugene O’Neill’s “The Hairy Ape”, a play that has been called a thought provoking “condemnation of the dehumanizing effects of industrialization” (http://www.enotes.com/hairy-ape). It is a play that managed to attract the attention of the FBI, for…
Professor Sam Bernstein’s visit from Boston
Prof Bernstein came this week to stay with us and to give my students a fabulous, powerful lecture on Eugene O’Neill’s “The Hairy Ape”, a play that has been called a thought provoking “condemnation of the dehumanizing effects of industrialization” (http://www.enotes.com/hairy-ape). It is a play that managed to attract the attention of the FBI, for…
Dying to oneself- what does it mean???
This resonated loudly for me in the context of our thoughts on Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Illych” and “Master and Man”. How do we all understand this powerful idea? As Shakespeare once put it at the end of his most profound sonnet, sonnet 146- [he is here speaking about the way we recklessly expend…
Comments on Entries-
Sometimes I think it is worth drawing attention to some really interesting entries in the Literature community. So here goes http://czaronias.livejournal.com/3008.html?mode=reply I think you are asking a really important question here Cass… and you think about it with real empathy. It is this kind of thinking that can produce a great story that can in…
Week 9: A Great Week for Drama
Third year are starting to rehearse scenes from “The Tempest”, from “Henry IV Part1” and from “Midsummer Night’s Dream”; First years are starting to rehearse scenes from around 8 short contemporary plays; Second years are deep into Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” and shortly Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest”. What a feast of drama happening…
Drama Resources On-line
All you drama buffs about to launch into Schwiebert’s drama offerings, there are some fabulous resources on drama in uTube. If you want to have a look at a brilliant performance of the closing minutes of Terence McNally’s Andre’s Mother (you should all look at this) check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGR9aIpATgg. If you want to see a…
ePortfolios
For your up and coming assignment on e-Portfolios, this is a vital link: http://electronicportfolios.org/google/index.html explore, enjoy, create! MG
Week 9: LiveJournal Writing Suggestions and Other Matters
LiveJournal is a public site – as you all know. This is part of the attraction of using it in an educational setting, because it allows us to connect with other organizations, other universities even. For example we have been exploring the possibilities of networking with students using Livejournal at the University of Hong Kong.…
Where Have I Been This Week?
I have been at an international conference in Surfer’s Paradise!- Great location- Great Conference. The conference was called “Creative Communities: Sustainable Solutions to Social Inclusion”. I had to present a paper with the title: “Using web-based technologies to empower creativity in literature classes for the homeless and disadvantaged”. Here is the title slide for my…
Emerson with first years this week!
Double click on text to read it clearly! MG
Former Student praises the value of LiveJournal after leaving uni
Any doubts about LiveJournal as a tool for when you leave University. Check out the comment by former student JZ. Go to my entry http://michaelgriffith.livejournal.com/80550.html and look through the comments on this blog. MG
Shakespeare 09 Excursion
Shakespeare 09 specialists went to the Shakespeare Room at the State Library today. This amazing room dedicated to the Bard on the 300th anniversary of his death pays tribute to his presence in Colonial Australia. The stained glass window in the room images the famous “All the World’s a Stage” speech, which is arguably the…
Second Year Art Gallery Visit
We all enjoyed our visit to the halls of the Nineteenth Century (Romanticism and Victorianism) at the NSW Art Gallery visit yesterday. The highlight was Ford Madox Brown’s monumental painting of Chaucer (Geoffrey Chaucer- father of English Literature) reading at the court of Edward III: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Chaucer, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_III_of_England. Madox Brown, one of the great pre-Raphaelite brotherhood,…
Generous Offer from LiveJournal Academic Assistant
As you know we have a list of academic assistants that head up the list of URLS which you will find in the Creativity Portal in the Blackboard site for your unit . These assistants are there to help us improve our LiveJournals in every respect. And remember that the first round of assessments of…
Sick with a heavy head and chest cold
Sick for three days A heavy head cold a streaming nose in bed feverish but strangely it is a blessing I have listened to the crickets and the rain I have watched the night sky steal its way behind the dusk behind the vast gum tree outside my bedroom window I have opened to the…
Travelling to Work by Train
Dawnlight freshens the world anew Cool, orange glow over Olympic Park The river glows Early morning skiffs …Oars …….suspended ……over the glaze ………………………Rest Taking in the morning’s Halo of blessings. MG
Inspiration from Thoreau
End of Week Two
The semester is already in full flight! In Shakespeare we are moving into A Midsummer Night’s Dream; in Nineteenth Century we are moving into Wordsworth, Coleridge, Wollstonecraft and Barbauld; in first year the feast is getting better by the hour! Some wonderful poems by Bukowski, Willams, Young, stories by Maupassant, Joyce, Naylor and others… challenging…
Knock-out performance! Don't Miss It. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" shakespeareonthegreen.com.au
Grand-daughter Leeara and I arrived at 7pm half an hour before the start of the show in time to set up camp and our picnic dinner. It was a fabulous performance getting into a stride just as the sun was setting over the harbour in Balmain. Here “the mechanicals” (dresssed as Parks&Gardens workers) began their…
Knock-out performance! Don't Miss It. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" shakespeareonthegreen.com.au
Grand-daughter Leeara and I arrived at 7pm half an hour before the start of the show in time to set up camp and our picnic dinner. It was a fabulous performance getting into a stride just as the sun was setting over the harbour in Balmain. Here “the mechanicals” (dresssed as Parks&Gardens workers) began their…
Knock-out performance! Don’t Miss It. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” shakespeareonthegreen.com.au
Grand-daughter Leeara and I arrived at 7pm half an hour before the start of the show in time to set up camp and our picnic dinner. It was a fabulous performance getting into a stride just as the sun was setting over the harbour in Balmain. Here “the mechanicals” (dresssed as Parks&Gardens workers) began their…
Hi Shakespereans: Don't Forget!!! Tonight!!!
Don’t Forget Tonight this opportunity to see the play we are studying in the next two weeks. The open-air performance is on tonight and tomorrow at 7.30… but get there at 6.30 if you want to be near the stage. Bring your sandwiches with you!. This is Shakespeare as it would have been performed in…
Hi Shakespereans: Don't Forget!!! Tonight!!!
Don’t Forget Tonight this opportunity to see the play we are studying in the next two weeks. The open-air performance is on tonight and tomorrow at 7.30… but get there at 6.30 if you want to be near the stage. Bring your sandwiches with you!. This is Shakespeare as it would have been performed in…
Hi Shakespereans: Don’t Forget!!! Tonight!!!
Don’t Forget Tonight this opportunity to see the play we are studying in the next two weeks. The open-air performance is on tonight and tomorrow at 7.30… but get there at 6.30 if you want to be near the stage. Bring your sandwiches with you!. This is Shakespeare as it would have been performed in…
A quick word to first years
I know many of you have already posted your first entries into LiveJournal (most of you should have- because it is now the end of week 1- so don’t let yourself get a week behind!). You don’t have to post very much… to get started put in a very short post and a very short…
Michael Griffith: Home Page- Literature and Life Spring 2025 
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