Earth is trapped in the crossfire of an unwinnable war between two alien civilizations. Its leader is perpetually on the verge of death. And on top of it all, a new drug has just entered circulation a drug that whips its users back and forth across time.
io9 has news about the latest Philip K. Dick adaptation, Now Wait for Last Year. Also in the report: absurd hats are pondered and I’m reminded of the impending Gondry-fication of Ubik. Hoorah!
Well, this semester has soared right past, hasn’t it? How’d we get to December already?!
As I’ve got a bit of a quiet spot in the day, I thought it might not be a bad idea to take a look back at last week’s Scholarly Storytelling workshop at Greater Allegheny. On Tuesday afternoon, I presented with Courtney Young to a group of just four faculty members from Communications, Art, Education and Mathematics. A relatively diverse group, to be sure. The group also included media project veterans and newbies alike, all of them eager to learn how assignments could be made to draw on Library resources to foster more academic final productions.
Though Courtney and I had never presented the materials together, it felt incredibly natural to be talking our way through the slides we were each designated, even if it took a moment to code-switch into Ryan Wetzel and Ann Behler’s thought processes in a few places (the last iteration of the presentation was at Tailgate by my colleague and a UP librarian). The truncated time allotment worked out well and I think the workshop actually gained from losing its hands on component in favor of an open and generous Q&A session with both Media Commons and Library on hand to provide joint answers.
I even booked a Spring class visit out of the deal.<
Learn more about the Scholarly Storytelling workshop and download the materials.