Just out—this interview with me about my hopes for digital pedagogy. From the host, Trevor Aleo: “In this episode of Conceptually Speaking, I sit down with Dr. Al Filreis, the Kelly Professor at the...
Al Filreis gave the introductory chapter of his forthcoming book to a machine that makes podcasts from text. The result is not perfectly accurate but does give you a fair, informal sense of what...
After Al Filreis led a collaborative close reading of a Gertrude Stein poem with a class of middle-school students in Saigon, they sent us this reel. Fun! What a wonderful group.
David Seelow has published an essay-overview about ModPo. Near the beginning is this: “When the MOOC fanfare exploded around 2012, the platform pitched three appealing features: free cost, unlimited unenrollment, star professors. All three...
Shreya, writing from Oxford in the UK, has posted a blog essay on ModPo. You can find the entire essay HERE. Below are the final paragraphs: One thing I’ve always loved about literature is...
Laura Lippman writes a substack series under the title “Shaved Meats, Piled High.” Her November 7, 2023, essay is about ModPo. Click HERE to read the whole piece. Below are the first few paragraphs:...
Published in the June 2023 issue of the Marsh Hawk Press Review: Al’s notes toward a pedagogy of ModPo. It begins: “Whenever I write these days about poetry I express an intense interest in...
HERE is a link to a new essay co-written by Anna Strong Safford, Davy Knittle, and me, published in a book of essays, Teaching Literature in the Online Classroom, eds. John Miller and Julie...
On January 28, 2021, Al Filreis convened a group of nearly 100 people by Zoom to collaborate on a close reading of Wallace Stevens’s “The Snow Man.” The event was hosted by the Kelly...
This was an argument against massive open online courses (MOOCs) made back in 2014, when this form of learning was relatively new. How does the argument fare today? HERE is a link to a...