Archive for January, 2007
prewriting and collaboration become easier online
Collin Brooke wrote about free online prewriting and brainstorming software that looked pretty cool, so I checked them out. Both of the two websites he sent readers to had to do with mapping, and I’m pretty pleased with both. The first one, bubbl.us is great if all you want to do is make a map [...]
on “The Rhetorician as an Agent of Social Change”
Lisa also suggested that I read Cushman’s article “The Rhetorician as an Agent of Social Change,” which I enjoyed a lot. She advocates for crossing the ivory tower/reality divide that separates universities and their work from the real life work of citizens. She claims that “we need to take into our accounts of social change [...]
“Imagined Geographies”
In my thesis, I am arguing for the metaphor of viewing the blogosphere as the ideal city, drawing from the work of Iris Marion Young. Lisa suggested I read Reynolds’s article, and I’m really glad I did. Reynolds is concerned with “transparent space,” and argues “that these imaginary spaces for writing and writing instruction have [...]
on the ecology of education
It seems that ecology is a hot topic when it comes to education. Recently Kevin Brooks blogged about the links between Marshall McCluhan and Rachel Carson, quoting from Marc Leverette’s Towards an Ecology of Understanding: [...] we can see that people today do not merely live in a world of the physical. The world is [...]
grounding my thesis in material practice
I think my thesis is coming along, perhaps a bit slowly, but it’s been wonderful thinking about it and working on it in small chunks. My major professor, Lisa Ede, continually reminds me to ground my theoretical work into material practice (what does this mean for my classroom, she asks). I love that I have [...]
“No one wants to integrate into a sinking ship,” or reflections on Your Voice, Your Conference
“No one wants to integrate into a sinking ship,” according to Malcolm X (this is probably a paraphrase). Angela Davis, the keynote speaker at last week’s Your Voice, Your Conference: Awareness, Solidarity, Action quoted Malcolm X during her speech on Friday. She was amazing and hilarious. But this statement, more than anything else she said, [...]
writing is about space!
Why did it take me until graduate school to figure this out. It seems so obvious now, that writing and reading is a spatial experience, that we move through texts.
What is woman?
Monday, January 22: I tried postdating this, but my version of WordPress won’t allow me to show postdated blog posts, so I’ll be periodically changing this post’s date so that it is at the top and can receive feedback. For my feminist philosophies term paper this quarter I am considering writing a paper to answer [...]
pacifist and pro-choice
In honor of Blog for Choice Day, I’m posting an essay that I published in one of my zines a few years ago (2003), about how I felt it wasn’t a contradiction to be a pacifist and to be pro-choice: I am pacifist and pro-choice, which seems paradoxical to some pacifists. How can someone who [...]
media diary for Tuesday, January 16
Below the cut is my media diary for yesterday, Tuesday, January 16. I started to keep one for today, but I think I got a good idea of my habits of media consumption and production after two days, and I got tired of keeping track. 6:45 to 7:30 am Facebook email Bloglines iPod and iTunes [...]
