Bruce Coville

Last Thursday I attended the Bruce Coville presentation Karen had arranged for the Grad student's Adolescent Lit course. Coville discussed Full Cast Audio, his audio book production company based in Syracuse, NY. The presentation and discussion was amazing; Coville is quite the entertainer and speaker. After discussing audio books and the company he asked students to volunteer to participate in an activity; they were instructed to read a skit similarly as those working for in Full Cast Audio would. After reading through the script once, he gave the Grad students advice and had them begin reading it again, interjecting when he had more advice. By the end of this mini-workshop, the performance had evolved and become better. The end of the presentation concluded with Coville handing out Full Cast Audio booklets, a worksheet of how to include audio books in the classroom reciting one of his poems, and audio book short stories, as well as him reciting one of his poems.

In all, the presentation was phenomenal. More undergrads should have attended; you really missed out.