New Bloggers, Clunkee CMS’s, and Nings?

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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A google reader tutorial, Pheromone Secretion No. 3

I can’t deny it. It could be cleaner, a little sharper, less clunky. It’s those arrows I think. I wanted to use Jing for this tutorial that I put together for my students, but I was having issues with my account (or, more likely, I was having issues pulling up my username and password from [...]

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Pheremone Secretion No. 1, Theory Day

It’s spring break, and I have a little extra time to return to my manuscript whose working title is Kairos, Nomos, Techne: Writing and the Possibility of Invention. The beginning of the post will be about the first chapter and will skip over the whole middle, touch base at the end, and suggest something new [...]

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Wow, That was Quick. Pheremone Tralis No. 1 & 2

After my discussion of an article idea yesterday, I received three pieces of helpful information to continue thinking about emergence and CMS’s. One came from a colleague over email and another shows up on Donna’s Blog where Scot adds a riff. I’ll start with the blog and then move to the email, which adds an [...]

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