Please feel free to listen to it in its entirety, but I was particularly impressed with the quality of the speech itself. Kudos to that speechwriter as it mixed a nice balance of rousing rhetoric with practical details. Initially, I thought that reference to the 106 year old woman was going to be cliched and altogether hackish, but it proved a good vehicle for walking through the American history of the 20th century.
I am of the opinion that political speechwriting is the borderline equivalent of playwriting in the 1920s. Good writers are drawn there.
My name is Michael Sean Gallagher. I am a Lecturer in Digital Education at the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. I am Co-Founder and Director of Panoply Digital, a consultancy dedicated to ICT and mobile for development (M4D); we have worked with USAID, GSMA, UN Habitat, Cambridge University and more on education and development projects. I was a researcher on the Near Futures Teaching project, a project that explores how teaching at The University of Edinburgh unfold over the coming decades, as technology, social trends, patterns of mobility, new methods and new media continue to shift what it means to be at university. Previously, I was the Research Associate on the NERC, ESRC, and AHRC Global Challenges Research Fund sponsored GCRF Research for Emergency Aftershock Forecasting (REAR) project. I was an Assistant Professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (한국외국어대학교) in Seoul, Korea. I have also completed a doctorate at University College London (formerly the independent Institute of Education, University of London) on mobile learning in the humanities in Korea.
