Jim Miller (jamesdmiller)'s Public Profile in the Diigo Community

Member since Aug 15, 2009, follows 11 people, 15 public groups, 63 public bookmarks (63 total).

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Recent Bookmarks and Annotations

Garcia Lorca - Odes and Others on 2009-12-16
Chronology of Walt Whitman's Lifea machine readable transcription - The Walt Whitman Archive on 2009-12-07
- 31 May
- West Hills, Huntington Township, New York
  - Jim Miller on 2009-12-07
    
    (Long Island)
- 15 more annotations...
- - Whitman family moves to Brooklyn
  - Quits school; works as an office boy for lawyer, doctor.
  - campaigns for Martin Van Buren
  - Attends opera regularly.
    Jim Miller on 2009-12-07
    
    he later credits opera with much of the inspiration for Leaves of Grass.
  - 15 May, takes out copyright on the first edition of Leaves of Grass, containing twelve poems and a preface.
  - "I greet you at the beginning of a great career."
    Jim Miller on 2009-12-07
    
    Emerson had been challenging the American literary community to produce the great American poet who would defy all previous convention. He finally saw this potential in Whitman's Leaves of Grass
  - Bronson Alcott
    Jim Miller on 2009-12-07
    
    another transcendentalist
  - Moves to Washington, D.C.; visits military hospitals and supports himself as part-time clerk in Army Paymaster's Office.
    Jim Miller on 2009-12-07
    
    works as a Union nurse during Civil War. Felt very strongly that American Arts/Literary communities should have an active stake in the war.
  - Indian Bureau
    Jim Miller on 2009-12-07
    
    Native American
  - discharged from position by Secretary James Harlan, supposedly because of authorship of obscene poetry.
    Jim Miller on 2009-12-07
    
    Harlan 30 years later claimed that Whitman was fired solely because hi services were not needed.
  - Drum-Taps and Sequel (Wa
  - Passage to India
    Jim Miller on 2009-12-07
    
    note that Whitman never visited India, though he writes several poems describing India. See Whitman and the "cosmic eye"
  - Oscar Wilde visits Whitman in Camden
    Jim Miller on 2009-12-07
    
    Wilde's tour of America was mostly a bust. This meeting turned out to be one of the few highlights of the trip for Wilde.
  - Whitman contracts to have $4,000 tomb built for himself in Harleigh Cemetery, Camden, New Jersey.
  - 26 March, dies
I Hear America Singing - Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More on 2009-12-07
Op-Ed Columnist - America vs. The Narrative - NYTimes.com on 2009-12-01
Great Questions »National Day of Listening on 2009-11-30
National Day of Listening on 2009-11-29
Diigo conversations push kids deeper - Reflections of a Techie on 2009-11-29
Miller's American Studies - Singing, with open mouths, their strong melodious songs. --Walt Whitman on 2009-11-20
Anna Tuttle: A Reason To Blog on 2009-11-20
There Is Silence in the Streets; Where Have All the Protesters Gone? - New York Times on 2009-11-19

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Groups

Building Educational Support Objects in SL

20 members, 49 items

This free Diigo social bookmarking group is a mashup to the Ning social group "EVOVWLL - Building Educational Support Objects in SL", whose objective is to provide a meeting place focused on building and creating support objects for educational settings and contingencies within Second Life.
Digital Citizenship

23 members, 56 items

A website to share resources related to digital citizenship. Digital citizenship is a broader concept which includes more than simply Internet safety. Anyone using the Internet today is a citizen of a growing digital community. It is important to understand and regularly discuss the rights and respon
EdTechTalk

921 members, 4081 items

This is the group for EdTechTalk.com
educators

1249 members, 6006 items

Educators sharing bookmarks and best practice. We have a set of standard tags to help us share things that you may use in addition to your tags. (You may subscribe to these tags via RSS feed by subject area, which makes it very useful.)
English Teachers

137 members, 372 items

A group to share sites that will help high school English teachers TRANSFORM their teaching so that students will have creative and engaging learning opportunities.