CUNY Academic Commons | Benjamin Miller | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/benmiller314/activity/ Activity feed for Benjamin Miller. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 97dcaa662cf4dfd04c0820c59db0b390 Benjamin Miller edited the blog post This Week: It's Hyperlinks All the Way Down in the group Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (Public Group) http://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/this-week-its-hyperlinks-all-the-way-down/ Fri, 11 Sep 2015 03:02:59 -0400 Each week, a member of the JITP Editorial Collective assembles and shares the news items, ongoing discussions, and upcoming events of interest to us (and hopefully you). This week’s installment is edited by Benjamin Miller.

Turning to the trusty Twitter feed for this week’s roundup, I found a lot of recommendations for other people’s re…[Read more]

]]> fbf25fc1ae322fba6b39d4a99a1ef197 Benjamin Miller edited the blog post This Week in Digital Humanities and Pedagogy in the group Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (Public Group) http://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/this-week-in-digital-humanities-and-pedagogy-15/ Wed, 26 Aug 2015 03:38:41 -0400 Each week, a member of the JITP Editorial Collective assembles and shares the news items, ongoing discussions, and upcoming events of interest to us (and hopefully you). This week’s installment is edited by Benjamin Miller.

Hello, all, and happy #PlutoFlyBy day! There’s a strong current of science and technology on the Twitter breeze this…[Read more]

]]> 4d99cc4dee399b9cb38a4032b53ffc23 Benjamin Miller wrote a new post on the site Ben's Sandbox http://bensandbox.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=589 Thu, 16 Apr 2015 20:35:54 -0400 The entire content of this post, other than this sentence, is https://twitter.com/oncomouse/status/588776575417458688

]]> 7d06d9ac2e6283cfd3cbc24440da18e5 Benjamin Miller replied to the topic Technical question-- how to batch-convert multiple docs to .txt files in the forum Digital Humanities Initiative via email http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=38032 Mon, 02 Mar 2015 16:24:53 -0500 Hi, Anders. I suspect that command-line tools like pdftotext plus a
shell-script will probably get the job done; it’s what I used (at Micki’s
suggestion, and based on her code) to convert from pdf to txt, also for
MALLET.

What filetype are the docs to begin with? If it’s pdf, you might be able to
just fork my script from…[Read more]

]]> cb6bb2c89ce5c1c8928e6cc0e26d2248 Benjamin Miller replied to the topic Technology: A Reader for Writers in the forum CUNY-Wide Composition and Rhetoric - Forum via email https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=36171 Mon, 24 Nov 2014 15:48:03 -0500 Congratulations, Johannah — this looks great! (I’m particularly tickled
that you included that xkcd.) And thanks!

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:29 AM, CUNY Academic Commons <commons@gc.cuny.edu
> wrote:

]]> dba524077da90c1dcf642e62ba8ec71a Benjamin Miller and Tyler T. Schmidt are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/308131/ Fri, 17 Oct 2014 14:15:53 -0400 d996585214cecbf4a6697f527cc8f6ac Benjamin Miller started the forum topic Job Announcement: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (apply now through 12/15) in the group CUNY Games Network http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/games-teaching-and-learning/forum/topic/job-announcement-worcester-polytechnic-institute-apply-now-through-1215/ Tue, 07 Oct 2014 19:06:03 -0400 Passing along this announcement for a new hire in Serious Games research:

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Jennifer deWinter
Date: Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 2:46 PM
Subject: [WPA-L] position […]

]]> 993809a1b7a600be0c3b5babfbdae18a Benjamin Miller joined the group Digital Humanities Reading Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/306721/ Mon, 06 Oct 2014 19:49:32 -0400 8acd06b31f07624eb0a961c9214eee6f Benjamin Miller wrote a new post on the site majoring in meta http://majoringinmeta.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/02/15/essays-and-musings/ Sat, 15 Feb 2014 19:56:41 -0500 Extended posts on teaching and writing (often about writing about writing).

]]> c510cc5841d80a14b30e2feb57ed088f Benjamin Miller wrote a new post on the site majoring in meta http://majoringinmeta.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/02/15/teaching/ Sat, 15 Feb 2014 19:39:18 -0500 I have taught college-level writing since 2004, including composition, composition theory, and writing across the curriculum; I have also taught creative writing workshops and seminars.

]]> a033fc3aa6e4e292065502e40dd95241 Benjamin Miller wrote a new post on the site majoring in meta http://majoringinmeta.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/02/15/publications/ Sat, 15 Feb 2014 19:34:52 -0500 My first book of poems, Without Compass, was published by Four Way Books in April 2014.
An article based on my dissertation research is included in the September 2014 issue of College Composition and […]

]]> 8e4805087908ef3dba881e65900d6a91 Benjamin Miller wrote a new post on the site majoring in meta http://majoringinmeta.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/02/15/major-projects/ Sat, 15 Feb 2014 19:15:40 -0500 I have been involved in several digital projects from their beginnings, including the Writing Studies Tree and the open-access Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy.
I am currently conducting a “distant […]

]]> c7abd72d1d60cc2a5606cf219512ca14 Benjamin Miller wrote a new post on the site Ben's Sandbox http://bensandbox.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=568 Sat, 15 Feb 2014 08:00:41 -0500 Extended posts on teaching and writing (often about writing about writing).

image: Ricorsività by aldoaldoz, cropped via CC-BY-NC-SA

]]> fd3ed852ddf2531307c46155fcd823a7 Benjamin Miller wrote a new post on the site Ben's Sandbox http://bensandbox.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=571 Sat, 15 Feb 2014 07:00:18 -0500 I’ve taught college composition, composition theory, and writing across the curriculum, as well as poetry workshops and seminars. In all of these, I structure time to help students engage with each other and with […]

]]> aa9c0500e3a3e2463cdc02180effed9f Benjamin Miller wrote a new post on the site Ben's Sandbox http://bensandbox.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=569 Sat, 15 Feb 2014 06:00:40 -0500 I have been involved in several digital projects from their beginnings, including the Writing Studies Tree and the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy.
I am currently conducting a “distant reading” […]

]]> 98af44167cdcc318fd92dcf775da4969 Benjamin Miller wrote a new post on the site Ben's Sandbox http://bensandbox.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=570 Sat, 15 Feb 2014 05:00:37 -0500 My first book of poems, Without Compass, was published by Four Way Books in April 2014.
An article based on my dissertation research is included in the September 2014 issue of College Composition and Communication.

]]> 893713ca229545c6f3797f8cb213501c Benjamin Miller wrote a new post on the site Ben's Sandbox http://bensandbox.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/02/14/essays-and-musings/ Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:23:06 -0500 Extended posts on teaching and writing (often about writing about writing).

]]> 39d36bc437dfa691d9978f471675d033 Benjamin Miller wrote a new post on the site Ben's Sandbox http://bensandbox.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/02/13/writing-studies-tree/ Fri, 14 Feb 2014 03:27:38 -0500 Digital initiatives I have been involved in from their beginnings.

]]> 1b9514d6fe9f01135de5defce9b3cbbd Benjamin Miller wrote a new post on the site Ben's Sandbox http://bensandbox.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/02/13/teaching/ Fri, 14 Feb 2014 03:26:01 -0500 I have taught college-level writing since 2004, including academic non-fiction, poetry, and composition theory.

]]> ffdbb9fbfb9305a57efc83846649abda Benjamin Miller wrote a new post on the site Ben's Sandbox http://bensandbox.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/02/13/poetry/ Fri, 14 Feb 2014 03:17:12 -0500 My first book of poems, Without Compass, is forthcoming from Four Way Books (April 2014).

!–more–
If you’re going to be at AWP 2014 in Seattle, please come by the Four Way booth at 10am on Friday, February […]

]]> 88ed9c2a478e821197ee2012b8f368cd Benjamin Miller wrote a new post on the site Ben's Sandbox http://bensandbox.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/01/24/scribd-embed-demo/ Fri, 24 Jan 2014 17:17:03 -0500 At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequat. Excepteur sint obcaecat cupiditat non proident, […]

]]> 51f9db6b36eb3e22966edba20b664c39 Benjamin Miller wrote a new post on the site Ben's Sandbox http://bensandbox.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/11/25/this-post-is-pending-review/ Mon, 25 Nov 2013 21:55:37 -0500 Excepteur sint obcaecat cupiditat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut […]

]]> b078bd859c4d80047bb8e8745d6e141b Benjamin Miller wrote a new post on the site Ben's Sandbox http://bensandbox.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/11/25/crowdsourcing-disciplinary-data-the-process-of-building-the-writing-studies-tree/ Mon, 25 Nov 2013 20:11:03 -0500 Thumbnail
We are the principal designers of the Writing Studies Tree (WST), a project we hope you’ve heard about since our launch at the 2012 CCCC in St. Louis. Briefly, the WST is an open-access site for gathering, […]

]]> 3fcc8ea50267c9298e8dab5e2192404f Benjamin Miller modified Ben Miller - 2013-10-07 - style as generative magic in GC Composition & Rhetoric Community (GCCRC) https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/232514/ Wed, 23 Oct 2013 14:18:14 -0400 3df02340339ad8065d844de7fb63bedf Benjamin Miller and diana12977 are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/230320/ Tue, 15 Oct 2013 21:01:33 -0400 bb7c917daf67564e0bf32671c0471783 Benjamin Miller uploaded Ben Miller - 2013-10-07 - style as generative magic to GC Composition & Rhetoric Community (GCCRC) https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/228149/ Tue, 08 Oct 2013 00:11:34 -0400 packet distributed for a GCCRC Monday night meeting, with four parts:
1) “playing the sedulous ape”: imitating structure, changing content
2) exercises for surprises
3) prose that dances: sentence-level figures
4) form with a function: paragraph-level figures

]]> 511beff4277e7c48739cbc02397f04e5 Benjamin Miller and Francesco Crocco are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/209319/ Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:57:18 -0400 0ddd22ba757087b3d1cf9a763d3f6ec9 Benjamin Miller replied to the forum topic Request for advice: something other than WordPress? in the group Digital Humanities Initiative via email http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/digital-humanities-initiative/forum/topic/request-for-advice-something-other-than-wordpress/?topic_page=1#post-12352 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:07:12 -0500 You can also probably use Wikidot with data forms, which can handle tags
and which Kimon has a lot of experience using.
On Jan 22, 2013 2:21 PM, “CUNY Academic Commons”
wrote:

]]> 242a6dc64a044f14922a21bf5c4720a6 Benjamin Miller replied to the forum topic Request for advice: something other than WordPress? in the group Digital Humanities Initiative via email http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/digital-humanities-initiative/forum/topic/request-for-advice-something-other-than-wordpress/?topic_page=1#post-12351 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:03:23 -0500 I think you may be ruling out Drupal too quickly. Your content has clearly
defined fields, some of which may have multiple values; you want to
generate various kinds of lists, according to different […]

]]> 5aaed33d33e75c9973e5d0df9830c795 Benjamin Miller and Carlos Hernandez (he/him) are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/156014/ Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:12:21 -0500 eb974eed2582d1acfc532d101a2b94f0 Benjamin Miller changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/100182/ Sun, 18 Nov 2012 20:53:37 -0500 4f23ea6651a6042c517ca1dccb3a12ef Benjamin Miller wrote a new post on the site majoring in meta http://majoringinmeta.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=582 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 19:53:55 -0500 In my current position, as an Instructional Technology Fellow (ITF) with the Macaulay Honors College, I partner with both students and professors to shape assignments and classrooms into conducive learning […]

]]> 3d8b033dcb705797178df9732bebb46e Benjamin Miller edited the wiki page GCCRC Weekly Meetings https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/79850/ Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:43:00 -0400 3d8b033dcb705797178df9732bebb46e Benjamin Miller edited the wiki page GCCRC Weekly Meetings https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/34956/ Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:43:00 -0400 e0d1ffa93dd2d3160abcdd6538ec257b Benjamin Miller edited the wiki page GC Composition and Rhetoric Community https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/79851/ Fri, 31 Aug 2012 03:46:00 -0400 e0d1ffa93dd2d3160abcdd6538ec257b Benjamin Miller edited the wiki page GC Composition and Rhetoric Community https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/32907/ Fri, 31 Aug 2012 03:46:00 -0400 13ccadbf58c9b17cfbc6e9e07c64456a Benjamin Miller and Anne Donlon (she/her) are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/78521/ Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:52:39 -0400 621084d7b038ae1771da069d09e4d820 Benjamin Miller replied to the forum topic THATCamp comes to NYC! in the group Digital Humanities Initiative http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/digital-humanities-initiative/forum/topic/thatcamp-comes-to-nyc/?topic_page=1#post-9620 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 01:30:19 -0400 Exciting!

I can see from the comments feed at the bottom of the site that some people have already been responding at http://newyork2012.thatcamp.org/registration/ , but the page is password protected. Can’t […]

]]> a994b5d1e196d3a281b15609bc817bd8 Benjamin Miller replied to the forum topic Steam for Schools (free version for educators) in the group CUNY Games Network http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/games-teaching-and-learning/forum/topic/steam-for-schools-free-version-for-educators/#post-9116 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:37:32 -0400 Yes, thanks for posting, George! This is very cool.

I haven’t yet played Portal 2, but Portal 1 stood out to me as a strikingly clear example of how learning principles are embedded in game design. After […]

]]> b85c55d4feb72d6f33a9c71193541baa Benjamin Miller edited the file: MAGNET teaching workshop packet, May 2012 in GC Composition & Rhetoric Community (GCCRC) https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/72958/ Tue, 15 May 2012 17:56:29 -0400 c0ecdab404f102ef9be51a68b031f809 Benjamin Miller uploaded the file: MAGNET teaching workshop packet, May 2012 to GC Composition & Rhetoric Community (GCCRC) https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/72957/ Tue, 15 May 2012 17:56:05 -0400 Session 1. Who are we and what are we doing? Planning the first day of class
Session 2. Construction and communication in syllabus design
Session 3. Collaborative pedagogy as classroom management: structure, instructions, and purpose

]]> ec5fa738eb42c97f357f5d1d8b6139e3 Benjamin Miller and Sondra Perl are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/72791/ Sat, 12 May 2012 12:57:28 -0400 82ee8530f5c2058a470496e168ccb700 Benjamin Miller started the forum topic Reminder: JITP Submissions Deadline Approaching (May 1) in the group Digital Humanities Initiative http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/digital-humanities-initiative/forum/topic/reminder-jitp-submissions-deadline-approaching-may-1/ Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:33:22 -0400 In the excitement of so many DHI events and announcements, please don’t forget to submit to the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. We’re currently accepting articles, webtexts, or other digital […]

]]> 32c924288dc95afc37e7f3675b36bb08 Benjamin Miller wrote a new post on the site Ben's Sandbox http://bensandbox.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=567 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:33:28 -0500 My dear imagined readers,

I imagine you must have been wondering, these long months since my last post, what (if anything) I’ve been up to, since it clearly has not been writing punnily titled essays and posting […]

]]> 32c924288dc95afc37e7f3675b36bb08 Benjamin Miller wrote a new post on the site Ben's Sandbox http://bensandbox.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/03/06/lets-do-launch/ Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:33:28 -0500 My dear imagined readers,

I imagine you must have been wondering, these long months since my last post, what (if anything) I’ve been up to, since it clearly has not been writing punnily titled essays and posting […]

]]> 9ceacd0a8158d399cd21b4da735598b5 Benjamin Miller wrote a new post on the site majoring in meta http://majoringinmeta.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/03/06/lets-do-launch/ Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:33:28 -0500 My dear imagined readers,

I imagine you must have been wondering, these long months since my last post, what (if anything) I’ve been up to, since it clearly has not been writing punnily titled essays and […]

]]> b05e0c87213cd8f27f4fa87fab4bf9af Benjamin Miller posted on the forum topic Dartmouth Summer Seminar for WPAs and Writing Faculty, applications due Dec. 15th in the group CUNY-Wide Composition and Rhetoric http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/cuny-wide-composition-and-rhetoric/forum/topic/dartmouth-summer-seminar-for-wpas-and-writing-faculty-applications-du Tue, 15 Nov 2011 02:59:51 -0500 I overheard Tiane Donahue talking about this at the MIT Symposium a few weeks ago, and it does sound pretty fabulous, and somewhat summer-camp like (if summer camp were to take place in the dorms and classrooms of an Ivy League college in New Hampshire). In addition to the on-site intensive, there’s a series of […]

]]> e6453dfc22d19a5fbde905ae1622a7cb Benjamin Miller edited the file: Applebee, Arthur and Judith Langer. "A Snapshot of Writing Instruction in Middle Schools and High Schools." /English Journal/ 100.6 (July 2011): 14-27. in Lehman WAC https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/55601/ Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:06:46 -0400 776b5544ce532a8407691fae2d7ea7c8 Benjamin Miller edited the file: applebee and langer (2011) - a snapshot of writing instruction in middle schools and high schools.pdf in Lehman WAC https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/55600/ Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:53:12 -0400 7d3f9f422cc0991191062a2e1acb3dc3 Benjamin Miller edited the file: applebee and langer (2011) - a snapshot of writing instruction in middle schools and high schools.pdf in Lehman WAC https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/55599/ Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:52:56 -0400