Teaching Today: Frontiers or Frontlines? An Address to Faculty at the UW Colleges Colloquium I can’t expect to tell you anything new about teaching because you experience it face-to-face routinely whereas the people I inform are mostly unseen, are free … Continue reading
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On May 24, 2017, it was my pleasure to give the keynote address for the UW Colleges colloquium at UW-Fox Valley. The audience of faculty from around the state was lively and attentive. The topic “Teaching Today: Frontiers or Frontlines?” … Continue reading
Listen to Wisconsin Public Radio on Saturday, May 13, from 11 am to noon and Sunday, May 14, from 8 to 9 am Central Time as I match wits with the seasoned panelists of Boston-based Says You! Listen to the … Continue reading
According to a survey of filmgoers, it’s…the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. Is it the green face, the long crooked fingers and hook nose or that raspy but convincing voice? Whatever it was–and is–Margaret Hamilton’s witch wears … Continue reading
The Boston-based public radio show of bluff and bluster, words and whimsy will be recording in La Crosse on Sunday, May 7, and yours truly will be a guest panelist. I was on the show several years ago–you may have … Continue reading
On Friday, March 31, from 11 am to 1 pm, a group of Viterbo University music faculty will perform music from 1917, the year that 9XM, now Wisconsin Public Radio, signed on. It’ll be a special two-hour Midday broadcast complete … Continue reading
On March 3 and 5, 2017, at the Gainesville Woman’s Club: Gainesville, Florida….radio-style dinner theater that invites the audience to come in costume….The Heroes of Bent Fork Bluff: In 1876, when a charismatic con man comes to a drought-stricken Texas town … Continue reading
Plenty of it! And on Thursday, March 30 at 7 pm in the Florentine Room of the Wisconsin Union Theater, I’ll share some notable examples before the Mnozil Brass concert at the UW-Madison’s Shannon Hall. We’ll hear musical shenanigans from … Continue reading
from the website of the Gainesville Woman’s Club: Get out your western boots for the Gainesville Woman’s Club The Heroes of Bent Fork Bluff, an original play written by Norman Gilliland. Doors will open at 6:15 PM on Saturday, March … Continue reading
The Electoral College It’s no school, it confers no degrees, And collects no tuition or fees, And though every four years It draws crowds and prompts cheers, Its “commencement” will also displease. … Continue reading