m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen

B.15 Rhetoric in the Electronic Age: New Media, Visual Rhetoric, and Electronic Kairos
Rebekka Andersen gave a really good presentation, “Teaching Visual Rhetoric as a Critical Reading Practice.” She discussed how she uses the assignment sheet as a lesson in visual rhetoric. First she presents the assignment written in paragraphs where she is careful [...]

A.25 Network Literacies: First-Year Composition Instruction for the Digital 21st Century
The first speaker, Mary Godwin talked about composition as an act. Her goal in English 106 at Purdue is to help students see themselves as writers and to see themselves as texts. She argues the aim should be to make writing visible and [...]

On Thursday morning, I skipped the keynote and did the blogger’s breakfast. From other comments I’ve seen around the blogosphere, I’m glad that I did. I had an absolutely fabulous time talking with these women!! See the recap and pics at jo(e)’s.
I’ll have to add links in bloglines because I [...]

I am finally getting to posting my notes/thoughts from the C’s. Here is one of many…
The trip from my parents’ house in Dixon to my younger brother’s apartment in Chicago on Wednesday morning was accomplished without hitting rush hour traffic and without getting lost. Yeah!! Plus, when I got to my Steve’s [...]

I’ve been unable to post my notes from the conference because of a funky 403 error that said: Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /blog/wp-admin/post.php on this
server.
I think what the problem happened because I had a colon in the Title of the post. Let’s see if this post publishes.
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OK, I changed the [...]

4C’s Blogger Meet-up
Thursday, 8:30 a.m.
Palmer House Lobby
Breakfast/Coffee Location TBD
Come join us for a blogger meet-up on Thursday morning. Meet in the hotel lobby at 8:30 a.m.
Jo(e) will be there. I’ll be there. You can be there too, right?
Even if you‘re not going to a single session, [...]

Holy cow!! I just found this interesting news item on the Syracuse website: 30 to represent Syracuse at CCCC 2006. You’ve all been so quiet about it, but this accomplishment is absolutely fantastic!! Congrats to you all!!!
I’m not presenting, but I hope to see many of you there.

MU is hosting a conference on “Open Access, Open Source, Open CourseWare – Sharing as a Solution to the Digital Divide” to be held on February 22, 2005. Details here.
via ET@MO (RSS feed)
In other ET@MO news, PCs in the computer labs will have Movie Maker installed. Also, people can take a class on [...]

Well, I have some good news. The proposal I submitted for the EGSA Conference, Demystifying Shakespeare, was accepted!
On hearing such good news, I promptly (well, with only 2 minutes to spare) submitted a proposal to the Computers and Writing Conference to be held in May 2006 at Texas Tech. Per the [...]

I attended the Colloquium on Writing Assessment/Mid-America Writing Program Administrators conferece on Thursday in St. Louis at Saint Louis University. Gail Hawisher gave the keynote, “The Challenge of Multimodal Composing.” I enjoyed her talk and I went up afterwards to talk with her and mentioned that I had met her this summer at [...]