m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen

We spent the afternoon using the video cameras. Let me tell you, it is harder than it looks to walk and record! I was never in marching band so I’m not used to the heel-toe smooth marching trick to smooth things out.
Our group spent the time in the library. [...]

I’m really interested in the way that Scott DeWitt and Cindy Selfe are teaching DMAC. Some of the pedagogical things they said yesterday included the following.
In the computer classroom:

“Look up here for a minute…”
“Back away from the computer…”
“Focus on the screen for right now…”
“I have a whistle and I’m not afraid to use it [...]

We’re talking this morning at DMAC about what new literacy skills and understandings people are going to need outside of school in the next decade.
The things we’re talking about include:
mash-ups/remixing
where we turn for news will change
understanding expectations, reach and speed
merging of oral and spoken text
the ability to compose mentally will become more important as VCR [...]

I’m at Lubbock for the Computers and Writing Conference. GRN was really good today. I got some good feedback on my thesis. The opening session was really fun — multimedia presentations to entice people to come to their particular sessions.
S. and I went to dinner after. I highly recommend Picante’s. [...]

I have zero time to write to find out more, but I thought maybe some of you might be interested in this mini-conference at Stanford’s d. school, assuming there are electronic methods of attending.
ok, I return to regularly schedule activities:
and 1–10-12 page),
- grading papers (please can’t we just let students [...]

Today was a really good day. There are days when things come together in unexpected ways and that is how it happened today.
One of the groups that I asked for help with funding just came through with an extra $250. It’s hard to believe. I am just ecstatic! This means that [...]

I’m going to DMAC!!
I was awarded a partial scholarship. Plus, I wrote a few emails to groups here on campus asking for help and got commitments for all but $250. However, a good friend just sent me that exact amount of money in the mail — just out of the blue [...]

If you have the time and travel funds after CCCC and C&W, you might want to think about the Web 2.0 Conference. Not that I have either the time or the dough, but surely, there are some who do.

I had a really. good. time.
I was able to meet f2f with people I had only met via blogs prior to the conference. I was able to make some new friends and get a few hugs! I was able to reconnect with some people who I had met at [...]

M.20 Info-Ecology, Info-Architecture: Growing and Designing Rhetoric for Critical Technography.
My notes on this session are extremely skimpy. I should have tried to connect with a few people rather than try and cram in this last session. It’s addicting though…moving from session to session and asking what new idea can I expose [...]