Professor Voice: as anticipated, a summer mini series, though unusually for CR miniseries/one-shots, staying in Exandria/canon. As hoped for by many, blend of OG & new cast. It's going to be super interesting to see how this plays out (so to speak).
The other thing I'm thrilled about is that as many folks know, I study #CriticalRole, publish about it, & am teaching a game storytelling course this fall. #ExandriaUnlimited is scaled so that (hopefully) I'll bring it into the classroom. @marisharay this is a brilliant idea.
As I've written about, the length of CR is, paradoxically, part of its deep appeal for its core audience. Many of the existing transformations (comics, novel) *extend* the canon. But the limited series & the animated series are designed to lower barriers to entry. Super smart.
And as others have said (and @matthewmercer has noted) this is a fabulous way for CR to have a long life to come. Not just lowering the barriers to viewer entry, but obliterating gatekeeping on who gets to tell the canonical stories (as DM AND player) of Exandria.
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Just so my non-academic friends are clear: no one, absolutely no one, wants to be the chair of an academic department. ESPECIALLY an English department.
Reasons you might do it anyway:
- you’re in a decent dept that takes turns (uncommonish)
- your school calculates retirement based on highest earning years & the temporary bump will mean something (slightly more common)
- the alternative is a nightmare (often)
Also, it’s kinda like electing a Pope: you really, really don’t want to elect anyone who jumps at the “opportunity” quickly & without hesitation.
Re-upping for the morning shift, partly to remind myself of today’s goal, but mostly to hype the work of my friend the late Bill Bradley. If you love writers who write movingly & hilariously about comics (hi @enthusiamy), soap operas, love, death, & more, you would love Bill.
Some of my favorites that I am turning to today with fresh, wet eyes: “Cathode,” a flash essay about teenage boys, #DnD, and all the things we don’t see until it’s too late: sweetlit.com/issue-7-2/pros…
I’m preparing my fall grad course for remote learning. I asked my GTAs about what worked, what didn’t, & what other professors should know as they design courses for possible online courses experience. A thread hope other grads will add to (I‘ll RT public tweets & anonymize DMs)
As we know, Zoom Fatigue is real. While Zoom was noted as useful & sometimes needed the whole 3 hr class time, it didn’t always. And breaks must still happen, just like in a F2F course.
Also worth remembering that screen time goes way up in the pivot online — where possible, having offline assignments (commonplace book, etc) that don’t need the screen are vital.