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Benjamin Fraser posted an update on MLA Commons 12 years, 5 months ago
Podcast series on the culture of cities launched with 5 conversational scholarly interviews at urbanculturalstudies.wordpress.com .
Cities discussed run from Madrid to Tokyo to LA/Hollywood to Valencia/Barcelona/Bilbao, and more.Click there on the Urbanculturalstudies Podcasts page or look for us on iTunes and Internet Archive. More to follow!
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Margaret W. Ferguson replied to the topic The Common Core and creative writers in the forum
Common Core Standards Initiative Discussion Group on MLA Commons 12 years, 6 months ago!–[if gte mso 9]>–
Thank you, Cynthia! This is a really interesting new thread! And I’m sure you’re right that the CC standards as currently written could prompt changes in the ways in which students choose […]
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Margaret W. Ferguson replied to the topic narrative complexity in the forum
Common Core Standards Initiative Discussion Group on MLA Commons 12 years, 6 months agoI hope that anyone who’s reading this thread will take a look at what the CC Standards actually say about how to measure textual “complexity” in qualitative and quantitative terms. There is so far no room for […]
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Margaret W. Ferguson changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 12 years, 6 months ago
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Margaret W. Ferguson replied to the topic narrative complexity in the forum
Common Core Standards Initiative Discussion Group on MLA Commons 12 years, 7 months agoThis is a fascinating post and I hope it opens a lively discussion of the kind of brief document the MLA might create to make a statement about what we consider a “complex reading practice.” David Laurence […]
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Benjamin Fraser posted an update on MLA Commons 12 years, 7 months ago
I’ve just started a series of podcasts at:
UrbanCulturalStudies Podcasts
The first one is a conversational interview inspired by scholar Stephen Vilaseca’s recent article “From Graffiti to Street Art: How Urban Artists Are Democratizing Spanish City Centers and Streets,” originally published in the journal Trans…[Read more] -
Hilda Chacón changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 12 years, 8 months ago
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Alex Saum-Pascual posted an update in the group
21st Century Hybrid Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 8 months agoSpecial session, ”New Digital Vanguards in Spanish Literature” has been approved for inclusion in the program for the 2014 MLA convention in Chicago. Elika Ortega (U of Western Ontario), Sergi Rivero-Navarro (Harvard), Marcos Wasem (Bard College) and myself, Alex Saum-Pascual (UC Berkeley) will be discussing emergent digital literature in the His…[Read more]
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Margaret W. Ferguson replied to the topic next steps? in the forum
Common Core Standards Initiative Discussion Group on MLA Commons 12 years, 8 months agoThanks, Stacey! There is going to be a MLA session at the NCTE Convention this coming November, too, with David Laurence and Paula Krebs. I’ll ask them to put up more information, and also ask Michael Holquist to […]
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