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Category Archives: 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, … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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