Monthly Archives: May 2006

New Research Summit Post 3: Introductions on the Blog

Posted on May 11, 2006 by Michael

Wrote one student as she was introducing herself to Lisa’s blog: Next: Gee’s Post to Our Blog

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New Research Summit Post 2: The Presence of Others

Posted on May 11, 2006 by Michael

The class blog for Lisa Ede’s Fall 2005 course English 495/595: Language, Technology, and Culture. The Presence of Others Next: Introductions to the Blog

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New Research Summit Post 1: Sisyphean Task

Posted on May 11, 2006 by Michael

This is issue #7 of my zine, which I published in May 2005 shortly before moving from Iowa. next: The Presence of Others

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classroom as contact zone

Posted on May 9, 2006 by Michael

Today I was just thinking again about Mary Louise Pratt’s “Arts of the Contact Zone”, and how the classroom is a contact zone. I was particularly thinking about this as how it is a contact zone of cultures (“academic” and … Continue reading →

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post-process pedagogy

Posted on May 8, 2006 by Michael

I just read: Breuch, Lee-Ann M. Kastman. “Post-Process ‘Pedagogy’: A Philsoophical Exercise.” Cross-Talk in Comp Theory: A Reader. 2nd ed. Ed. Victor Vellanueva. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2003. 97-125. In this essay, Breuch articulates that the teaching of the writing process … Continue reading →

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