Archive for November, 2007

notes from the interblags: thanksgiving edition

I’ve found that my blog reading is much like my magazine reading. I’m always behind and have a stack of stuff to read when I get around to it.
• via Clay Spinuzzi, Hello, My Name is Bob, and I Check My Email While on the Toilet. Excerpt:
In many recovery programs, one of the first steps [...]

Desire, Feminism, Internet culture, Queer issues and theory

i can’t resist… some microsoft parody

via Clay Spinuzzi, here is a great spoof, What if Gmail had been designed by Microsoft?
From the comments on the article, this great video chronicling if Microsoft had designed the iPod package:

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time is flying…

…which means I have an even shorter amount of time to complete my PhD applications.

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real rhetorical situations

JoAnne Podis and Leonard Podis have a pretty good article in the recent College English about in loco parentis. Overall I found it pretty interesting (and it made me think a bit about how I structure assignments and reflect more on the feedback I give students, as well as how I relate to them). But [...]

Teaching Composition

sisyphean task video #1: trans remembrance day

This video is in response to Pedagogical Gregory’s video, as well as Jeff Rice’s recent discussion of rhetoric as “The usage of many, many things.” In particular, I’ve been thinking about how I espouse multimodal composition yet don’t really engage in it a whole lot — so here’s my first attempt at a video!

CCCC 08, New Media, Queer issues and theory, Sisyphean Task Video, public sphere

“the the impotence of proofreading”

via Nels

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notes from the interblags: college edition

A series of links:
• The University of Iowa’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is offering money to departments for students who sign up for Friday classes, in an attempt to curb student drinking on Thursday nights (Iowa State Daily). This is an interesting strategy, especially since U of I has long held high status [...]

Education, Ethics, Notes from the Interblags, Social Justice

The Trouble With Diversity, Chapter 1

Last night I continued reading Walter Benn Michaels’s The Trouble With Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality, which I am reading at a snail’s pace.
In Chapter 1, Michaels shows that the idea of race as a scientific categorization was long ago proven false, and then we replaced this with the idea [...]

Ethics, Social Justice

such a large inbox

For the first time in ages my email inbox is under 2,500 emails. I plan on continuing to devote time periodically to get this back down to a manageable amount. I’m starting with the older stuff because it’s easiest to just drop them in files. My biggest problems started way back in February 2006 when [...]

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leopard

I missed my November posts on Friday and Saturday, so I’ll have to post three times today. This I am determined to do. Later. After I finish grading progress reports.
On a side note, I installed OS X Leopard last night, and so far, I love it. Except the installation deleted all my printers, and I [...]

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