Bill Wolff's Composing Spaces

As I have written about in prior posts, my students are writing in collaborative blogs and have also created individual netvibes accounts. I, too, have a netvibes account, and have been using it as a RSS feed host for my students blogs. I’m exhausted, so not a lot about this, but to say that I really [...]

Two CFPs have been announced that ask participants to consider “space” or “place”: 7th Annual Louisiana Conference on Language and Literature: On and Off the Page: Mapping Place in Text and Culture and Special issue of Technical Communication Quarterly: New Technological Spaces: Mastering the Literacies of Thinking and Doing across Multiple Modalities. Descriptions below.

A rather sobering article (subscription required) in the Chronicle’s The Academic Life provides portraits of the financial realities of the profession. A selection: When Catherine A. Milton moved back to her parents’ home to finish her dissertation, she didn’t imagine that she would stay for seven years. While living at their Connecticut home, she not only [...]

Students in my Technologies and the Future of Writing module of Introduction to Writing Arts are designing their own information ecologies. These ecologies are comprised of: their own spaces on the Rowan University servers a collaborative blog hosted by Wordpress a netvibes.com ecosystem a social bookmarking site (delicious or diigo) The main question they will be considering is: How can [...]