m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen

As I stated in my last post, I’m giving a talk today at the Missouri Writing Project Summer Institute.
My plan is as follows:
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briefly review what blogging is and mention the other forms of blogging being done
highlight a few place blogs since they are writing about place this summer
discuss places they can go [...]

The teachers in the MWP summer institute are writing about place. I wanted to find a few bloggers who are writing about place and I found Tim Lindgren’s blog. His blog is a project on place blogging and he has quite a few place bloggers linked in his blogrolls. They might also [...]

I just umm-ed and ahh-ed my way through answering questions for a DMAC video, and it occurs to me that in addition to teaching how to compose with digital media, that we could also teach how to be recorded more effectively on digital media. For example, being at ease in front of the camera, [...]

Valerie Lee, Chair of the English Department came to speak next. Click to her webpage — she has a lot on there to see.
I couldn’t quite catch how many faculty she said there were, but check out the OSU English Department People page. There are so many faculty, they have to divide 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 [...]

Looks like I’ve been asleep at the blog…
I just found Odeo — a social networking audio site. Users can record posts online or by phone and even share them with friends or in iTunes. Plus, users can tag posts and subscribe to different users’ RSS feeds, as well as comment on what others have [...]

I’m reading James Inman’s Computers and Writing. He says that apparatus theory has been problematized as too essentialist. Here’s the section:
Ulmer “means [electracy] to represent the state of meaning-making at the time that its central apparatus is electronic media. I am not sure that we can ever reach electracy, and scholars have [...]

I sent the following email to the WPA-L, WAC-L, and techrhet lists today. If you know of any others who might be able to respond, please send them my way.
As part of a WAC graduate seminar I am taking with Marty Townsend at the University of Missouri, I am doing a research project on [...]

Doesn’t it just figure that when I open Google and do a search for digital literacy, that it is the Center for Digital Literacy at Syracuse that is the first site in the search results! It seems as if the people at Syracuse are always on top of things. According to the CDL [...]

In the forward to Feminist Cyberscapes: Mapping Gendered Academic Spaces (edited by Kristine Blair and Pamela-Takayoshi), Patricia Sullivan writes, “I am particularly grateful that Feminist Cyberscapes …does not abandon the study of more bedrock technologies (say, e-mail) in favor of emerging technologies (say, synchronous video conferencing). Such a restraint in a society of technology [...]