The Keynote Speaker stole my thunder for his intro this afternoon 2:00pm Session. … Twitter and Metaphor

Good Ideas:

• Personal Server: Digital Sandbox: Hosted, Store and help transfer their content – “beyond the e-portfolio
• Give students this environment FOR LIFE!
• Bluehost.com – Gardner’s hosting service – set of hosted tools
• “New Media Reader” – the text he uses in class
• “Personal Librarianship” – Honors Course??

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My Intro .. from 2:00 pm Session

Some of you have:

From his work, from his blog, from podcasts/lectures, heard his keynote this morning, read his Bio in the program,
and heard Craig’s introduction this morning. .. So what more is there to say in the way of introduction:

Well..Dr Campbell. You’ve been Googled! .. and here are a few facts that – you may not know about Gardner:

Ø At 1978 – at Wake Forest University, he won the Broaddus Jones Award (outstanding senior English major)

Ø Phi Beta Kappa, Wake Forest University, 1979

Ø At Wake Forest University – he shook hands with William F. Buckley, Jr. .. He Blogs: “I shook his hand and exchanged pleasantries as best I could, given my age, and my mixed feelings about the encounter.”

Ø Seventeenth Annual Conference on Literature and Film in 1992, he gave a paper entitled “Bowdlerization as Revelation: The Strange Case of Fast Times at Ridgemont High,”

Ø Mary Washington College Outstanding Young Faculty Member Award, 1998

Ø In 2000, he spent five weeks in Bath UK to study the lives, times, and films of Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick (now theres a Gig)

Ø In May 2008 – on his Twitter page he describes himself: English professor, bootstrap carny, bassist

Finally – from Rock/Soul/Prog, Spring 2008 – course blog – Entry May 2nd, 2008 · Excerpts from a post by from one of his students

As everyone may or may not know, Dr.Campbell is leaving Mary Washington after this school year.

This really came as a blow to many. Most, if not all students involved with the english department know that Doctor C is perhaps one of the more inspiring instructors around. His ability to bring others to reflect critically on material and bridge reality and the experience to the works of artists is unparalleled.

…Dr.Campbell was my academic advisor and instructor for my freshman seminar. I planned on taking his intro to literary studies course next semester, and looked forward to many helpful, yet rigorous lessons in writing, reading, and life. I saw Dr.Campbell as someone to help guide me through the confusion of college, and someone to aspire to.

…. Dr.Campbell has taught us all many lessons about initiative and accomplishment. It reminds me of many stories of coming of age where something similar happens: Gandalf falls, Dumbledore dies, Splinter is kidnapped, Dad goes off to war. All of these stories had the powerful and wise sage disappear, only to leave the adolescent characters to fend for themselves. Maybe its just a cliche archetype or maybe its more. Maybe this an opportunity for us to take the lessons Dr.Campbell’s lessons and apply them. the assignment of the week point of our lives is over. It’s time to start shaping our dreams into realities.

I for one know the direction i wish to head. .. I feel like now, more than ever, I have a sense of what i am doing and why i am doing it. I don’t have an exact plan, but i have a motivation and drive, and thats more important than anything.

I’m gonna make the album Dr.C…just you wait…..=)