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Condition of the Subject Conference - July 2003
- Common Speech, Uncommon Discourse: Whose English is English?
- Professor Ron Carter ( Professor of Modern English Language at the University of Nottingham, England) presents a keynote address at the Subject Centre's inaugural conference.
- Video length: 62min 31secs
- In Defence of Gradgrind
- Professor Jonathan Bate (who at the time was FBA King Alfred Professor of English Literature & Leverhulme Research Professor at the University of Liverpool, England) presents a keynote address at the Subject Centre's inaugural conference.
- Video length: 50min 37secs
- Towards Cultural Criticism
- Professor Catherine Belsey (Chair of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University, Wales) presents a keynote address at the Subject Centre's inaugural conference.
- Video length: 43min 50secs
- The future of English in the American University
- Professor Elaine Showalter (Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English at Princeton University, United States) presents a keynote address at the Subject Centre's inaugural conference.
- Video length: 4min 32secs
- Notes on a Postcolonial Pedagogy
- Dr Ato Quayson (Director of the African Studies Centre and Lecturer in English and Fellow at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, England) presents a keynote address at the Subject Centre's inaugural conference.
- Video length: 41min 32secs
Creating and Assessing Online Discussion Forums - 2005
- Virtual Vikings: Using a VLE to run a team-taught module
- Christina Lee from the University of Nottingham talks about her innovative approach to teaching Viking Studies.
- Video length: 25min 17secs
- Effective and Efficient Management of Discussion Boards
- Matthew Green from the University of Nottingham talks about his approach to managing discussion boards.
- Video length: 29min 28secs
- Towards assessment: Discussion Boards as a tool in drafting and reflective writing
- Heather Conboy & Kathleen Bell from De Montfort University talk about their use of discussion fora in a creative writing course.
- Video length: 23min 49secs
- That strange animal, a push-me, pull-me: considering the hybrid nature of virtual discussions
- Gail Ashton from Manchester University talks about her use of discussion fora in an undergraduate Medieval course.
- Video length: 25min 01secs
Teaching Shakespeare:'Devide, wit, write, pen' - 2006
- Introduction to the 2 Day Event
- Christie Carson, senior lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, introduces the Shakespeare event to delegates.
- Video length: 4min 32secs
- Teaching Shakespeare
- Jonathan Bate is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at Watwick university and at the time of this presentation was the Director of the CAPITAL Centre.
- Video length: 12min 37secs
- Educational undertakings at the RSC
- Roger Mortlock was Director of Communications at the RSC in 2006.
- Video length: 12min 24secs
- Teaching Shakespeare - 2
- Kate McLuskie is Director of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham.
- Video length: 14min 11secs
- Teaching Shakespeare - 3
- Paul Edmondson is head of Education at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
- Video length: 11min 26secs
- Introduction to the CAPITAL Centre
- Jonathan Bate is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at Watwick university and at the time of this presentation was the Director of the CAPITAL Centre.
- Video length: 11min 26secs
Renewals Conference - July 2007
- Teaching Poetry through New Media in Higher Education
- The paper presented by Nigel McLoughlin, University of Gloucestershire, is intended to be one person's thoughts on what they find productive in practice for teaching various elements of poetics within Creative Writing.
- Video length: 14min 37secs
- Teaching PowerPoint poetry
- Poet on the page and collaborative digital poet Judy Kendall is also an English and Creative Writing lecturer at Salford University. This brief presentation looks at the process of developing a poem on the page into a work that can be read digitally, and shows one way in which lecturers can present this transformation and encourage students to experiment with it, a way that avoids prejudicing the class in favour those who have superior knowledge of and access to computer software.
- Video length: 10min 08secs
- Text.Play.Space: Crossing the Critical-Creative Divide
- This talk (with online examples) by Rosie Miles, University of Wolverhampton, focuses on the use of creative role-playing activities in a VLE Forum/Discussion Board space as part of two English Literature modules (both focussed on the Victorians).
- Video length: 13min 19secs
- Spinning the Web: Webspace in Creative Writing Higher Education - part 1
- This presentation, by Kate Horsley, University of Lancaster, was part of three which aimed to open out discussion about three closely related aspects of 'spinning the web'. The focus of this presentation is on creating writers' forums, conferences, virtual research modules and other interactive resources for Creative Writing postgraduates at Lancaster.
- Video length: 6min 28secs
- Spinning the Web: Webspace in Creative Writing Higher Education part 2
- This presentation, by Lee Horsley, University of Lancaster, was part of three which aimed to open out discussion about three closely related aspects of 'spinning the web'. The focus of this presentation is on implementing Lancaster University's online programme within their MA and PhD communities .
- Video length: 5min 11secs
- Spinning the Web: Webspace in Creative Writing Higher Education part 3
- This presentation was part of three which aimed to open out discussion about three closely related aspects of 'spinning the web'. The focus of this presentation is on promoting these virtual learning facilities within the academy - the task of persuasion, the effort to gain acceptance for innovatory virtual research environments, etc.
- Video length: 18min 36secs
- Orb: Creative Tensions, Corporate Images
- In 2007, the University of Hertfordshire launched a creative writing magazine based inside Second Life. This presentation, by Jennifer Young, University of Hertfordshire, will discuss how we use the virtual space. The student and University response to the project will also be explored.
- Video length: 11min 50secs
- From Getting Their Toes Wet to Life Guards--In Just 3 Years: Using Online Critique Circles, Electronic Forums and Other Tech Tools in the Creative Writing Classroom
- Jackie Pieterick & Candi Miller, University of Wolverhampton
- Video length: 21min 16secs
- The Weather in Japan: strange conversations and creative workshops - Part 1
- This presentation by Andrew Biswell, is part of a joint presentation about online CW teaching at MMU, looking at technical aspects including compatibility with external systems, technical support, positives and negatives from the front line. There is an overview of the different roles needed to run a large online programme successfully, the specifics of teaching fiction and poetry online as part of MMU's MA programme.
- Video length: 11min 20secs
- The Weather in Japan: strange conversations and creative workshops - Part 2
- This presentation by Michael Symmons Roberts, is part of a joint presentation about online CW teaching at MMU, looking at technical aspects including compatibility with external systems, technical support, positives and negatives from the front line. There is an overview of the different roles needed to run a large online programme successfully, the specifics of teaching fiction and poetry online as part of MMU's MA programme.
- Video length: 13min 21secs
- The Weather in Japan: strange conversations and creative workshops - Part 3
- Richard Miller (Chair and Professor of English as well as Executive Director of the Plangere Writing Center at Rutgers, State University of New Jersey) presents a keynote address at the Subject Centre's second international conference. .
- Video length: 12min 33secs
Teaching: An Improviser's Art - London & Sheffield - May 2008
- Introduction to the event
- Richard Miller (Chair and Professor of English as well as Executive Director of the Plangere Writing Center at Rutgers, State University of New Jersey) presents a keynote address at the Subject Centre's second international conference. .
- Video length: 1min 50secs
- Session 1
- Part one of a presentation, by Kevin McCarron, University of Surrey, of the connections between performing stand-up comedy and teaching English Literature, as well as the implications arising.
- Video length: 69min 23secs
- Session 2
- Part two of a presentation, by Kevin McCarron, University of Surrey, of the connections between performing stand-up comedy and teaching English Literature, as well as the implications arising.
- Video length: 57min 25secs
- Session 3
- Part three of a presentation, by Kevin McCarron, University of Surrey, of the connections between performing stand-up comedy and teaching English Literature, as well as the implications arising.
- Video length: 57min 25secs
- Session 4
- Richard Miller (Chair and Professor of English as well as Executive Director of the Plangere Writing Center at Rutgers, State University of New Jersey) presents a keynote address at the Subject Centre's second international conference. .
- Video length: 57min 25secs
