Join the Presentation on April 7th in the Greenley Library!

Main Entrance to Library

College administration has asked me to do a presentation to faculty on Thursday, April 7, at 3 pm PCM 311,Introduction to Electronic Writing.  My session Is about 15 minutes. I am inviting students who took the online class during the 2016 intersession to come to the presentation and comment on their positive experiences with the online sessions – what you liked, why it was helpful, or any opinions on the topic that you would like to voice. The session will be in the Greenley Library, second floor, in the CTLT room (across from the Distance Education lab).

about the online class you took last intersession,

Please send me an email and let me know if you can make it.

I hope to see you there!

Professor Gold

 

Henry Goes to High School

"Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere."
Prince Hal speaks to his enemy, Hotspur, on the battlefield. Act 5, scene 4, line 64.

See my piece,
Henry Goes to
High School

Here is a link to my latest published piece, Henry Goes to High School, in the Spring 2016 edition of the journal "Teaching Shakespeare." It is on the Academia portal (pp. 13-16):
https://www.academia.edu/22286794/Teaching_Shakespeare_9  

If you have difficulty opening that site, you can see an "unofficial" copy posted here (pp. 13-16):
https://doc.co/cSnbwf 

This is evidence of my belief that everything we write can be re-purposed for profit or accolade. The published version is an extract of a paper I wrote for a graduate-level English course on Shakespeare. That class was taught by Dr. Clifford Huffman at SUNY Stony Brook, and I am thankful for his support during and after that fall semester. The paper was submitted to two other journals before this editor, Sarah Olive, accepted it for publication (after requesting revisions to match the periodical's requirements).


The original paper was in response to a question posed in an open online Internet forum asking, “Why do people hate Shakespeare?” My answer is that the usual plays taught in high school (like Romeo and Juliet) should be replaced with something more likely to grab students’ interest. We know that young readers are interested in trilogies, such as Lord of the Rings. These texts include a buddy-movie relationship, action, comedy, and the personal growth of the central hero. These are the key components of the Henry plays, from Henry IV part I, Henry IV part II, and into HenryV.

See my piece,
Henry Goes to
HighSo, I p

So, I propose that Henry Goes to High School, in the Spring 2016 edition of the journal "Teaching Shakespeare." It is on the Academia portal (pp. 13-16):
https://www.academia.edu/22286794/Teaching_Shakespeare_9.

Meteor Images Test in class

Space is not as safe and empty as you might imagine. Dangerous meteoroids move at extreme speeds, thousands of miles an hour. Some even though they

are only the size of a grain of sand, can rip through a space craft. If we are to travel to mars, we must develop smart materials to combat the harshness of space. It's not only solid particles that space travelers need to worry about, cosmic rays are also a real risk and could potentially cause cancer by invisibly destroying vital DNA. If some how you were left unprotected in space or on the Martian planet surface, the gas in your lungs and the solutions in your blood stream would expand and kill you. For this reason a space suit that meets these survival needs must be fine-tuned.

The first unmanned space craft was launched in the fall of 1957 by the USSR, bringing the first artificial satellite out of Earth’s atmosphere, and beginning the great space race to see which country would be the first to land a man on the moon. The United States won the race in the summer of 1969 and has had its sites set on expanding its horizons even further ever since Mars, for several reasons, meets the criteria of the next planet of man to concur. Both the U.S. had made numerous attempts to explore the red planet in the years leading up to, and in the decades following the moon landing, but it was not until 1997 that the U.S. successfully landed the Mars Pathfinder on the surface of the planet. Several rovers have made the trip in the years since and have brought back valuable pieces of scientific data to be studied in Earth-bound laboratories. Now, the question to be answered is, when will man walk on Mars? Better yet, could man be able to leave Earth behind and live on Mars?

Back in 2013, Bas LAndrop, foiunder of the Mars One SpaceProject, presented an idea for a small group of volunteers to be sent to Mars on a one-way flight in 2023. While, I do commend the level of commitment that involvement in this type of project would require, and can understand the desire for people to travel beyond what they already know, I cannot imagine leaving the life I know behind, even if it means having a large impact on the advancement of both science and human life. 

This will open my new podcast

My Podcast Site › Embed Code — Podbean

My Podcast Site › Embed Code — Podbean

A New Semester begins

I feel like a modern Magister Ludi, scurrying from campus to campus -- from Farmingdale to Molloy to Stony Brook and Back again.