And, finally for tonight, a quick shout out to my friend and RCWP colleague, Aram Kabodian, who is getting back into the blogging business this holiday season. Mr. Kabodian’s Blog Well, I took the plunge and let people know I’m playing with pageflakes and bustin’ out this blog. And people actually responded! It was nice [...]

Here is a post that got lost in the end-of-semester rush in my Firefox’s ScribeFire plugin. Boy, it’s fun to find something you thought you had lost, especially on a computer. I never really finished it, so it trails off at the end, but I think that I get the point across. — USA Today [...]

Over the holiday break, there has been an interesting discussing on the TechRhet list about the OLPC initiative. Aaron Barlow has been leading the con side of the debate, and outlines the argument in his blog, here, and points to articles about failed development projects such as the one here; the pro side generally gives [...]

Pulling into the driveway this afternoon, I saw the box perched on our porch. Like the many other holiday packages that arrive, I didn’t give this one much of a thought until I got it inside and began to look at the address label. Pretty quickly, I realized that the computers we ordered from the [...]

My colleague Rob Rozema from GVSU has invited my students and I to participate in a new Ning social network, Teach English. I am very excited about the opportunity to be involved in this project, and we will also have students from Allen Webb‘s course at WMU join in, too. As we consider what we [...]

An email from Leigh alerted me to this great set of resources. Check them out: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning – Series – The MIT Press The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning examines the effect of digital media tools [...]

Like MIT’s Open Course Ware, Yale is moving some of its content online and making it publicly available with a Creative Commons license. As a professor and digital writer, I applaud this move and hope that I can encourage my university, CMU, to move into that direction, too. Below is a copy of the press [...]

Yesterday, our RCWP Project WRITE team had the good fortune of being able to work with NWP’s Director of Research and Evaluation, Paul LeMahieu, on an analytic writing continuum workshop. In his talk, which was similar to the session that I attended last summer, he talked about how the continuum has been developed, the pedagogical [...]