This semester (fall 2016), for the first time, I am teaching a class in creative writing, “un atelier d’écriture” It is a daring experience: I have often written and played with fiction, but I have never participated myself in such workshops, and was never taught how to teach or enable this kind of course. However, after now three sessions passed,… Read more →
Category: Teaching
Proust (2.0) – A 2008 project
(note that this note is updated in 2016, as the web project does not exist anymore !) Created by a French artist named Véronique Auboy, “Le Baiser de la Matrice” (“kiss of the matrix” – unavailable in 2016) was a web project that enable people from all around the world to webcast themselves reading Proust in 2007-2008. Ironically, Aubouy fell… Read more →
Tech-Tools for Literature in the French Language Class (PAMLA)
In the Internet era, when our students use Facebook or Twitter on a daily basis and often have their own blog, literature faces a new challenge in the French language class. How can a text go beyond its fossilized written format and be relevant for our hyper-active, webmastering, multi-tasking students? An answer will be given here, on November 7th. Read more →