CCCC 07
4C’s reflection: Saturday
a continuation of my previous 3 posts:
Saturday:
O.02 Technologies of Writing: Rhetorics of Place
Jeff Rice’s talk, “Spatial Identities: Writing Cities,“ was really engaging. He called into question the way Google Maps or MapQuest constructs our ideas of place, arguing that there is something more than just the map and the route. Place should also take into [...]
4C’s reflection: Friday
a continuation of my previous two posts:
Friday:
F.06 old + old = new: Writing Multimedia, Remixing Culture, Remixing Identity
Some graduate students and an undergraduate student from Michigan State shared some really interesting ideas and experiences of their own literacy and analyses of some digital artifacts that interrogated issues of copyright, remixing, design, race, and culture. I [...]
4C’s reflection: Thursday
a continuation of my notes from 4C’s:
Thursday:
A.23 Forging a Scholarly and Professional Identity Online: Blogging as Discovery and Externalization of Self
Geoffrey Middlebrook, Sandra Ross, and LauraAnne Caroll-Adler (University of Southern California, Los Angeles) all discussed their use of Blackboard and blogs in their composition courses, including basic writing, first year composition, and advanced writing courses. [...]
4C’s reflection: Wednesday
I had a lot of fun at 4C’s and went to quite a few talks (though I read on others’ blogs that this is typical of the first-timer’s trip: trying to fit it all in). Let’s see if I can summarize adequately what I’ve been up to, seen, and heard so far, reconstructing the events [...]
my hostel in manhattan
I’m in Pittsburgh now (at the Carnegie Library for some wireless work time), and I thought I’d post some pictures of my sparse hostel room in the upper west side of Manhattan. It was a nice enough place to sleep and shower, since I didn’t hang out there much or expect much out of it, [...]
i’m in New York
I got into New York tonight and made it safely to my hostel. It’s on the north end of Central Park and west a few blocks, and I was surprised with how… sparse it is. I guess I shouldn’t have expected more for only $18 a night. There’s three other guys in my room, two [...]
