There’s a debate going on in fandom right now about warnings. It’s fairly normal for people that write fanfiction to stick a warning onto a fanfic that features rape, sexual assault, etc. so that people who do not want to read something about their favorite characters undergoing those things (canon or not) can avoid them.
Furthermore, [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Warnings and triggers and teaching
Posted in Uncategorized on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
New Media Rollercoaster?
Posted in Uncategorized on June 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Check this out: http://www.thrillnetwork.com/news/2788/hollywood-rip-ride-rockit-details-emerge.html#more-2788
A new rollercoaster to be built at Universal Studios Florida will, for all intents and purposes, be the first ever new media rollercoaster. People who ride the coaster will be able to choose from several different pieces of music to hear (that only they can hear) and switch them and interchange them [...]
Grades grades grades
Posted in Uncategorized on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Both writing programs I have recently worked in (including the one I am currently in charge of, ah!) are highly concerned with grade inflation. In both cases, I sit in meetings about grade inflation with head on one hand, eyebrow politely raised, and either protest a lot (in School B where I have at least [...]
