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Rhetoric RSS FeedsWiki Writing is Here! - Drum roll please .Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom has arrived! I just got my advance copy today and couldn't be more pleased with the production. U of Mich Press did a fantastic job putting this thing together, and of course all the chapters are must-reads for any teacher interested in wikis, if I do so say myself. If you do get a copy please let us know what you think!...Feed Source: kairosnews.org Kairos Call for Awards (February 1, 2009) - Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy requests nominations for its three annual awards, which will be presented at the 2009 Computers and Writing Conference at University of California-Davis. The deadline for nominations for all awards is February 1, 2009.
The Kairos awards page has complete information about all awards and a list of past winners. read more... Group Projects: Pros and Cons? - On the official course evaluation form at my school, students tick a box that indicates whether the course involved group work. I get to tick off a separate box, in which I indicate whether I think group work is important for the course, but seeing that box there semester after semester naturally makes me think of more ways to do group work.read more... Gmail Themes - Is anybody else having fun with the new gmail themes? I am really impressed with some of them, especially the retro "Terminal." On a related note, is anyone using the gmail video or voice chat? How does it compare to Skype?... Survey of Open Source Adoption and Usage - Greetings. We are conducting a preliminary online survey aimed at assessing the role of open source software in the scholarly and pedagogical practices of the Rhetoric & Composition and English Studies community. As a scholar and teacher of Rhetoric & Composition and/or of English Studies, you are being invited to participate in this survey. Please take a few moments to respond to this very brief ten-question survey on the subject at the link provided below.read more... Lift up your heads, O ye gates -
Newly co-published by Furtherfield and The Hyperliterature Exchange: an appreciation of David Daniels, the great shape-poet, who died in May 2008.
"Daniels is one of those figures who straddles the divide between digital and pre-digital art and literature His art is about liberation, uninhibited outpouring, spontaneity and fun."
To read the whole article, go to http://www.hyperex.co.uk/reviewdaniels.php . read more... Between--Weird Game from Jason Rohrer - I just found a link to Between, an interesting-sounding game published by Esquire. Here's the snip:read more... Beyond Bootcamp Multimedia Workshops - Rich Beckman, the new Knight Chair of Visual Journalism at the School of Communication at the University of Miami, started a series of multimedia workshops at his former institution, University of North Carolina. He's relaunching them at UM. While the main focus is on journalism, these intensive courses also look interesting for computers & writing folk, so here's the link for the website describing them and giving registration information. Also, what could be better than Miami in January?... Creative Writing and Comp Jobs (Tenure-Track) at Seton Hill University - English:
Seton Hill University seeks published novelist of popular fiction (preferably mystery/suspense), to teach and to mentor novel-length theses in the graduate low-residency Writing Popular Fiction program (half-load), and to teach undergraduate courses in creative writing and first-year composition.
Candidates should hold a Ph.D. in English, MFA considered. Background in journalism, publishing, and/or editing a plus. Teaching experience/potential at undergraduate level desirable.
Composition: read more... CFP [collection] Metamorphosis:The Effects of Professional Development on Graduate Students - Reminder -- Proposals Due November 30th
http://digitalcelt.com/CFP_Metamorphosis.pdf
Call for Essays on Graduate Student Professional Developmentread more... Foods Henry Has Eaten So Far - human milk
formula
apple juice
applesauce (baby kind)
applesauce (adult kind with cranberry and raspberry)
rice cereal
barley cereal
prunes
pears
whole wheat toast
yams (at a restaurant I gave him a bite of mine)
hummus (ditto)
peas
yogurt
"green vegetables" with brown rice, which he hated
butternut squash, which he also hated
carrots
oatmeal (Quaker Nutrition for Women kind, vanilla cinnamon flavor)
smoothie (Naked brand, the green one)
bananas (both fresh and pureed)
... Bullets -
Today I bought four bags of books at my university library's used book sale. Score!
Henry has TWO teeth now, and he likes to chew my fingers with them.
I'm doing a conference presentation at LACC on Saturday, and I think I might do a ten-minute presentation containing the primary information/argument, then use whatever time I have left for some outtakes. The title is "'No More Than a Year': Isocrates and the Assessment of First-Year Writing." With this presentation, I may or may not be embarking on a new series of research projects. I am definitely entering an area that is not very familiar to me (assessment) and another area that is outside my main specialty (classical rhetoric). The outtakes, which have to do with ideas of natural ability, are interesting, but they don't quite fit into the main focus of the presentation.
... Pediatrician Michael Melancon - He's good. Two weeks ago today, we saw him for Henry's six-month visit, and I showed him Henry's shaky sitting-up technique. He took one look and said, "I give it two weeks, then he'll be sitting up without assistance." One week and six days later, Henry did it. Here's a video from earlier this morning:
... 2008 Ragin' Cajuns Homecoming Parade Soundtrack -
"I Wanna Dance With Somebody" -- Whitney Houston
"Hey Ya!" -- Outkast
"Yeah!" -- Usher, Ludacris, Lil Jon
"Bad Moon Rising" -- Creedence Clearwater Revival (played by a cover band on the float)
"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" -- Cyndi Lauper
... A Collection of Good and Not-So-Good Reasons for Assigning a Personal Narrative as the First Essay in a Composition Course - Apropos of a lecture I attended yesterday by Bruce Horner* and some general thoughts I've been having lately about this issue, I've decided to collect as many reasons as I can think of for assigning some sort of "personal essay" as the first assignment in a college writing course. These are reasons I've heard other people cite and reasons I came up with myself when examining this question as a thought exercise. I'm not saying all of these are good reasons by any means, only trying to compile a list. Please let me know if you have other reasons.
1. Start inward, go outward: or from individual concerns to social concerns. This is one of the ideas Horner critiqued, actually; he argued that it rests on assumptions that those two things are uniform and monolithic (I would add, not to mention mutually exclusive).
2. Building blocks: provide students "an initial experience in expression" wh... WSJ Note - The Wall Street Journal news feed is always kind of screwy in my experience, but I got a kick out of this. It seems they couldn't just pick a verb and stick with it:
... Feminisms and Rhetorics 2009 - I'm being asked by a few folks to circulate the following call for proposals for the next Feminisms and Rhetorics conference, which follows below. Bravo to Michigan State for taking out the parentheses -- as in feminism(s), rhetoric(s). If we're going to use the plural, let's use the plural.
One bit of criticism I have, which isn't necessarily directed toward Michigan State's department, or even the Feminisms and Rhetorics conference, is that I wish we could start putting conference sites in ONE place, like all FemRhet conference sites could be on the Coalition's site. We tried to do that with Computers and Writing, but it didn't catch on, as Stanford did their own site for 2005's conference, Texas Tech did their own for 2006, Wayne State did the same ... Resurrection - Enculturation and The Writing Instructor, two journals that had gone a few years without publishing, are back online. I'm happy to see them.
... CCCCs' Use of the Web - It's a little late to try to circulate this ad (deadline is tomorrow), but I'm going to do it anyway. CCCC is looking for a web editor:
The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) is seeking applications from CCCC members for a new position as CCCC Web Editor (to be distinguished from CCC Online Archivist). The CCCC Web Editor?s term will be three years (non-renewable) beginning as soon as possible after the application deadline and ending in December of 2011. This is a volunteer position.
Actual programming or Web building is not required. Instead, the CCCC Web Editor will have the responsibility of orchestrating uses of new Web building structures made available in the coming months (e.g., blogs, Wikis, Face Book and so on), moderating new community spaces, publishing relevant information, and working with NCTE/CCCC to develop a stronger Website with new features. We antic... I want your teeth for the Federal Reserve - It's starting to feel that way, isn't it? I dread seeing our next TIAA-CREF statements, ugh.
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