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The Ning site for the Institute is up and running. It’s just getting out of the gate. People have signed up, some additions have been made, but we haven’t begun to spend significant time there. I feel confident that if people start to see it as a place where they can do a lot of [...]

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Before Spring Break two weeks ago, I mentioned my frustration with having to use the Blackboard CMS systems in my comp classes. As I said back then, I was pretty fed up with the clunkiness of the system and the lack of intuitive movement it allowed. I spent a good portion of Spring Break migrating [...]

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Some colleagues and I are putting together a panel for the Thomas R. Watson Conference entitled the New Work of Composing. It promises to be an exciting conference. I’ve included a draft of our proposal below. 250 words limit. The current version is 251. Deadline’s tomorrow.

THE SEVENTH BIENNIAL THOMAS R. WATSON CONFERENCE
THE NEW WORK OF [...]

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Someone I work with hit me and a few others up with an article idea that had come to him after his students bombarded a discussion list inside of Blackboard. (As I’ve said before, BB has been the standard sameness around SJU.) He hit us up wondering about the phenomenon and about how the traditional [...]

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