Archive for October, 2006
PhD programs? perhaps later…
I was planning on applying to PhD programs in rhetoric and composition this fall, but due to being really busy (and somewhat poor), I’m going to put it off a year. Part of me is disappointed: I really want to be starting a PhD program next fall. I had already started the grieving process of [...]
critical depression
In my philosphy class we’re reading works by Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, Frederic Pollock, and (perhaps most painful of all) Theodor Adorno. It’s ushered in a new age of depression for me today. I have to remind myself that there is still hope, but some of these guys paint such a bleak picture of totalitarian [...]
Second Life to get news reporting
Last spring at the New Research Summit at the University of Oregon, an instructor discussed his success with holding a classroom online in the virtual reality game of Second Life. I just read this BBC story about Reuters starting a news service in Second Life. Virtual Life is getting a little more… real. I’m not [...]
collaboration
Sara Jameson and I just got done collaborating on a talk for the TYCA-PNW conference, and we’re looking forward to possibly turning that into a paper, as well as collaborating on a talk for CCCC in the spring. On a similar note, Sarah B. and I got permission to collaborate on a paper for our [...]
reflections on tyca-pnw
Yesterday Sara Jameson and I presented our presentation, “A Compass for the Composition Classroom: Conversing and Consuming in Cyberspace Communities,” at the TYCA-PNW conference, where we asked participants to post to the TYCA-PNW blog. I’m hoping the blog has the potential to take off and be able to be a resource and communication place for [...]
my presentation in classical drama today
Today I gave a presentation in my classical drama class — about ten minutes. It seemed to go really well — well received, applause. And it was fun to write, even though I was stressing about it because I kind of wrote it at the last minute, even though it had been germinating in my [...]
CCC’s definition of “published”
I received my new copy of CCC in the mail the other day (Sept 2006). Checking out the “Guidelines for Writers,” I was a little surprised to read, “Authors must obtain written permission to use unpublished work — memos, student writing, Internet postings, and the like — before quoting it in manuscripts” (127). I have [...]
google documents
Sara and I are using Writely to co-author our presentation at TYCA, and I am loving it. This morning we went online to work on it, and lo and behold, Writely had become Google Documents. It turns out, I’ve found from Kairosnews, that Google might be using Google Docs and Google Spreadsheet to vie with [...]
lots of talking today…
This week has been busy. I haven’t gone to bed a single night this week without feeling like I got less than half of my to-do list done. This might not seem so bad to others, since it’s only Tuesday, but it feels like it should be Thursday night, it’s been so busy. Today took [...]
slashing and composition
I’ve been thinking a bit about my thesis recently, and putting Sirc (art) and Bartholomae (criticism) into concert with each other. For our gender and cultural studies independent study reading seminar, we are reading “Feminity Slashed” by Caroline Howlett, and I’m looking forward to a good discussion on it and on a few Judith Butler [...]
