Citizen poetics, the book
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...
Category: pedagogy
Teachers: you can use the ModPo method of collaborative close reading in your classrooms!
Are you a teacher searching for a way of enable full participation of your students in the sometimes daunting work of reading and discussing a poem? It might seem obvious, especially in a post...
Overviews and introductions to ModPo all in one view
We’ve organized various introductory videos about ModPo—overviews of the course and our approach—into one easy view. Click HERE and have a look!
David Seelow, “A Good MOOC Is Hard to Find”
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...
Paradise Prose blog celebrates ModPo
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...
Notes toward a pedagogy of ModPo
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...
Interview about ModPo
A new interview with Al Filreis about ModPo (conducted by Ann Cefola) has now been published in Fast Flesh Literary Journal, issue #4 (“Conscious”). The interview can be found here: https://www.fastflesh.net/modpo
New ModPo essay: “Collaborative Close Reading and Global Conversation…”
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...
Filreis leads a “Listening Practice” workshop on February 17, 2021
On Wednesday (Feb 17) Al Filreis will be leading a “Listening Practice” workshop for SpokenWeb, the Canada-based consortium of digital audio archiving. https://spokenweb.ca/events/virtual-listening-practice-guided-by-al-filreis/ [<–click to register]
MOOCs eight (or so) years later — how do anti-MOOC arguments read today?
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...