Mark Fullmer

Part of a continuing series of sketch stories exploring Taos and narrative point of view.
1. In the Thai Cafe
2. At Songs Fine Asian

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"Lets just go, okay?"

That was the first bum talking. The other bum had been talking real loud for a while already.

"Fine," the other bum said, real loud. And they left.

Part of a continuing series of sketch stories exploring Taos and narrative point of view.
1. In the Thai Cafe
2. At Songs Fine Asian
3. In the Public Library

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Look. I don't know why I kept going to Asian places.

Part of a continuing series of sketch stories exploring Taos and narrative point of view.
1. In the Thai Cafe
2. At Songs Fine Asian
3. In the Public Library

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It was straight across from the only McDonalds in town. I don't know. Maybe that's why...

Inspired by a friend's summation of his unbelievably prolific "off-year," I decided to get a little purchase on what I made of 2009. Here it is (was?):

Writing

• Composed my first ever book of poetry (also, apparently, the first ever book of twitter poetry), published by A Mutual Respect Books & Music.

What: I'll present my findings on how distance educators can learn from the Facebook platform, emphasizing 6 underlying principles:

1. Communication is public and community oriented
2. Content is user created
3. Participation is voluntary
4. Discourse is creative, informal, and efficient
5. Hierarchy is democratic
6. Stuff's short

When: November 16, 2009, 1:00pm
Where: Irvine Valley College Technology and Distance Learning Committee Meeting, Room BST 118

The Fall 2009 Fullerton College Faculty Reading Series will feature three writers: Jenn Givhan, Bruce Henderson, and myself.

In collaboration with Danielle Fouquette (Fullerton College) and Brian McCabe (Claremont Graduate University), I presented "Facebook and the Classroom: Productive Identities and Social Bonding in Nonymous Online Environments" at ECCTYC 2009. Description Social networking websites have become an increasingly central feature of the landscape of college students’ social lives. This prompts questions about potential applications for this form of community within the academic community we foster in our classes and on campus. Our presentation uses Facebook.com as a case study, exploring how FB communication among and between students, teachers, and other campus personnel shapes dynamics in the classroom and beyond.

Without knowing it, I'm apparently part of a growing legion of cyberhounds turning microblogging into poetry.

I and the team of editors at New Comm Ave, the literary journal of college writing, published our most recent issue of great student writing. The contents are below:

Olga Doktorov: A Shifted Life
Personal Narrative

Kevin Medina: Displacement and the Preconscious Other: A Psychoanalytic Approach to The Dark Knight
Film Analysis

Jenna Brown: 241 South
Personal Narrative

My friend and comrade Nick Courage, who is Omega Man for A Mutual Respect Books & Music, has been conducting a series of interviews:

Friend of a Friend spotlights people of interest to the greater AMR community: poets, rockers, artists, aesthetes, and assorted bon vivants. The series is called Friend of a Friend because all the interviewees are my friends, and hopefully you’ll be their friend too once I introduce them to you. -- Nick Courage