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		<title>CCCC 2010 Abstract and Prezi</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/cccc-2010-abstract-and-prezi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My 2010 Conference on College Composition and Communication presentation is entitled, &#8220;Revealing Meaning, Broadcasting History: Notes on the Composition of Oral History Video.&#8221; I am pleased to be presenting on the panel, &#8220;Images, Rhetoric, and the Construction of Meaning&#8221; with friends and colleagues, Christa Teston and Billie Hara.
Here is the abstract as submitted:
In her 2004 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>flip video workshop prezi</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March, 10, I led a workshop at Rowan entitled 6 7 Recommendations for Using Flip (and other) Video Cameras in the (non-video) Classroom (download a video of the full workshop [.mp4]). The workshop was offered as part of the terms of a grant I received to be able to purchase 20 Flip Video cameras [...]]]></description>
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		<title>how to prevent and fix loss of recording time on a flip ultra video camera</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/how-to-prevent-and-fix-loss-of-record-time-on-a-flip-ultra-video-camera/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/how-to-prevent-and-fix-loss-of-record-time-on-a-flip-ultra-video-camera/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you know, students in my Writing, Research, and Technology sections are using Flip video cameras to create video oral histories and other short video essays. We are using Flip Ultra cameras (non-HD, model F260W), which has 60 minutes of record time. After the first semester of use (spring 2009), I noticed that several of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>wordpress releases version 2.8</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/wordpress-releases-version-2-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Building on their prior release, which they called Coltrane, Wordpress 2.8 is named Baker after Jazz legend Chat Baker. I really enjoy how they are equating blogging and jazz. See video for the many cool updates.

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		<title>6 recommendations for teaching with the flip video camera</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/some-recommendations-for-teaching-with-the-flip-video-camera/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In June 2008 I received a grant for 20 Flip Video Cameras (.pdf) to be used in one of the required courses in the Writing Arts undergraduate major at Rowan, &#8220;Writing, Research, and Technology.&#8221; The general goal of the course was to extend traditional conceptions of composition by applying it to the medium of video. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>using twitter in the graduate classroom</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/using-twitter-in-the-graduate-classroom/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/using-twitter-in-the-graduate-classroom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been much discussion lately about how Twitter is being used in the undergraduate classroom. Daisy Pignetti describes how she used Twitter in 3 sections (2 online, 1 in person) of English 102 at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.  Monica Rankin discusses how she implemented what she has described as the &#8220;Twitter Experiment&#8221; into a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>wordles of obama&#8217;s cairo speech</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/wordles-of-obamas-cairo-speech/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/wordles-of-obamas-cairo-speech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading the speech Obama gave this morning in Cairo was like reading all of complex, elusive, and often conflicting ideas that I have had for quite a while about the relationships among Christians, Muslims, and Jews. How refreshing to hear them coming from a president of the United States and not only whispered by friends [...]]]></description>
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		<title>switching wordpress themes: the process begins</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/switching-wordpress-themes-the-process-begins/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/switching-wordpress-themes-the-process-begins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 17:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://williamwolff.org/?p=1664</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few months I have grown dissatisfied with my current layout, which is based off of the Wordpress Laila 2.0 theme. The primary reason is that I don&#8217;t think it reflects the dynamic nature of the work my students are doing, nor does it provide access to the multiple spaces that my students [...]]]></description>
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		<title>using web 2.0 in the writing classroom</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/using-web-20-in-the-writing-classroom/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/using-web-20-in-the-writing-classroom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 02:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before the spring semester started this past January I was interviewed by Eileen Stutzbach for Rowan University&#8217;s Techcast&#8212;a video podcast that showcases what is happening technology-wise at Rowan. I was asked to talk about how I am using Web 2.0 applications in my writing courses. In the below except from the Spring 2009 show I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>teaching students how to create meaningful tags</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/teaching-students-how-to-create-meaningful-tags/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/teaching-students-how-to-create-meaningful-tags/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 15:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ryancordell asked me to say a few words about teaching tagging to my students and I am very happy to do so.
I have been trying to figure out how to teach tagging to my graduate and undergraduate students since I began using Diigo several years ago. Actually, after I finished presenting a paper at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>honda&#8217;s metaphor: kicking out the ladder</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/hondas-metaphor-kicking-out-the-ladder/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/hondas-metaphor-kicking-out-the-ladder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We began Information Architecture this semester by looking at the construction of language through the use of metaphors. Earlier I posted about the metaphors we use during class discussion. Today on Twitter @DocMara pointed to an excellent documentary by Honda that investigates the idea of failure in the innovation process. It seems that Honda has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>what students learned completing the youtube project</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/what-students-learned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the main goals of my courses is for students to reflect on what they are learning as they are going through the process of completing an assignment. That goal has in the past been fulfilled by Learning Record Observations, which are 3 &#8211; 5 sentence snapshots students write about the work students are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;what does youtube mean to you?&#8221;: my students&#8217; videos</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/what-does-youtube-mean-to-you/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/what-does-youtube-mean-to-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This semester in my Writing, Research, and Technology course students are learning how to create idea-driven video compositions. The larger project is to create a video oral history on an important contemporary topic. To help students get familiar with the Flip Ultra video camera we&#8217;re using, as well as learn some of the basics of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>siftables</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/siftables/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/siftables/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via @christateston: Created by David Merrill and Jeevan Kalanithi at the MIT Media Lab, Stables are &#8220;cookie-sized computers with motion sensing, neighbor detection, graphical display, and wireless communication. They act in concert to form a single interface: users physically manipulate them &#8211; piling, grouping, sorting &#8211; to interact with digital information and media. Siftables provides [...]]]></description>
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		<title>mapping superbowl tweets in the nytimes</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/its-a-twitter-happy-go-go-springsteen-nation/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/its-a-twitter-happy-go-go-springsteen-nation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[this post has been retitled from &#8220;it&#8217;s a twitter-happy go-go springsteen nation.&#8221;
Via @courtneybird who retweeted @nickbilton and an email message from my father (who refuses to Twitter but sends me all sorts of Twitter-related news articles), the New York Times has semantically and geographically represented on the continental United States an interactive tag cloud of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>introductory video to writing, research, technology</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/introductory-video-to-writing-research-technology/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/introductory-video-to-writing-research-technology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
For more information, please see the course web site and its YouTube hub.
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		<title>communication technologies and the revealing of history</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/communication-technologies-and-the-revealing-of-history/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/communication-technologies-and-the-revealing-of-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Readings section of the February 2009 Harper&#8217;s (subscription required) has an excerpt from Eula Biss&#8217;s &#8220;Time and Distance Overcome,&#8221; that struck me as appropriate reading for today, a day when the nation is celebrating the inauguration of the first African-American president and the school semester started with discussions about the future of communication technologies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Introduces New Laptop Wheel</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/apple-introduces-new-laptop-wheel/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/apple-introduces-new-laptop-wheel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[via briancroxall

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard
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		<title>one laptop per child announces 2008 campaign</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/one-laptop-per-child-announces-2008-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/one-laptop-per-child-announces-2008-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One Laptop per Child (OLPC) has announced its 2008 Give One, Get One campaign. This year individuals have the ability to Give One (for $199) or Give One and Get One (for $399).
In coordination with this announcement, OLPC has released a video of students talking about how much they like their laptop have provided a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>about that analog to digital cable tv switch</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/about-that-analog-to-digital-cable-switch/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/about-that-analog-to-digital-cable-switch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This about says it all:

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		<title>palin Africa reports result of elaborate internet hoax</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/palin-africa-rumors-result-of-elaborate-internet-hoax/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/palin-africa-rumors-result-of-elaborate-internet-hoax/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On November 6, 2008, reports began circulating online and on TV that Sarah Palin did not know (or could not grasp the idea) that Africa was a continent and not a country. The story, embedded with other Palin-McCain-infighting-related revelations that were, according to FoxNews&#8217; Carl Cameron (see below), &#8220;put off the record until after the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>google announces video chat for google talk</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/google-announces-video-chat-for-google-talk/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/google-announces-video-chat-for-google-talk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google continues to make AIM and Yahoo! irrelevant:

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		<title>tweeted apps and sites</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/tweeted-apps-and-sites/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/tweeted-apps-and-sites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am really enjoying the sharing of applications and sites on Twitter. A few have come across lately that I thought I would share here.
A few weeks ago Matt tweeted about Picnik, a free, robust online photo editing application that integrates with photos on Facebook, Flickr, myspace, photobucket, and many other applications. I showed it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>obama buys ad space on xbox 360</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/obama-buys-ad-space-on-xbox-360/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/obama-buys-ad-space-on-xbox-360/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Josh Marshall has confirmed that the Obama campaign has bought add space in the game Burnout Paradise for the Xbox 360 platform. A screen shot:

Gigaom reports:
“I can confirm that the Obama campaign has paid for in-game advertising in Burnout,” Holly Rockwood, director of corporate communications at Electronic Arts, the game’s publisher, told me via email, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>bebo extends social networking to outer space</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/bebo-extends-social-networking-to-outer-space/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just heard on BBC Radio&#8217;s Newshour (which annoyingly doesn&#8217;t have individual story archives on their web site) that the social networking site, Bebo, is sending messages composed by users to an earth-like planet from a telescope in the Ukraine. According to Alexa, Bebo is the 102nd most visited site in the world, the 5th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>animating virtual spaces</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/animating-virtual-spaces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of the essays by James Paul Gee and Scott McCloud that students in my Technologies and the Future of Writing course are reading for tomorrow: two great animations that ask us to consider the nature of digital texts, symbols, and the spaces in which both are presented.
The first, Animator vs Animation, I believe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>web search strategies in plain english</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/web-search-strategies-in-plain-english/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/web-search-strategies-in-plain-english/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CommonCraft has released a new video, &#8220;Web Search Results in Plain English&#8220;:

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		<title>diigo anounces diigo education</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/diigo-anounces-diigo-education/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/diigo-anounces-diigo-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The outstanding social bookmarking and annotating application, Diigo, has announced the release of Diigo Education. Designed in collaboration with educators from all grade levels, and with an eye toward the challenges of K-12 teachers gaining Diigo access in their classrooms, Diigo Education joins Edublogs and Voicethread with an education-specific side of an already robust and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>microsoft copies Mac, releases I&#8217;m a PC ad campaign, shows it&#8217;s true microsoft colors with horrific web site design</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/microsoft-copies-mac-releases-im-a-pc-ad-campaign-shows-its-true-micrsoft-colors-with-horrific-web-site-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While watching the Giants OT victory over the Bengals today I saw this new Microsoft ad:

Video: Pride
The ad is a direct response to Mac&#8217;s outstanding I&#8217;m a Mac, I&#8217;m a PC campaign, which effectively makes the argument that PC users are the dorks and Mac users are the cool kids (full disclosure: I have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>current tv and twitter partner to tweet the debates</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/current-tv-and-twitter-partner-to-tweet-the-debates/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/current-tv-and-twitter-partner-to-tweet-the-debates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al Gore&#8217;s TV network, Current, has joined forces with Twitter to Hack the Debates.

Twitter users watching the debates can send a tweet with the additional extension &#8220;#current&#8221; which will be scraped for inclusion. According to an AP article by Jake Coyle:
During the debates, the network bent on viewer-created content will broadcast Twitter messages — or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>coo-el: cuil to challenge google</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/cuil-to-challenge-google/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/cuil-to-challenge-google/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Search engine developer, Anna Patterson, who designed search technologies bought by Google has launched her own search engine meant to rival Google: Cuil (the article says Cuil is pronounced &#8220;cool&#8221; but the coloring of the font suggests &#8220;coo-el&#8221;).


Cuil displays its search results as chunks of text across two or three columns. Here, the search results [...]]]></description>
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		<title>animoto photo-music mashups</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/animoto-video-music-mashups/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/animoto-video-music-mashups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Ewan McIntosh, introducing Animoto, an application that mashes together the images you upload with music you select to create a unique video production. The folks at Animoto&#8212;&#34;a bunch of techies and film/tv producers who decided to lock themselves in a room together and nerd out&#34;&#8212;have developed &#34;Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology that thinks like an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>making any surface a writing space using the wii remote</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/making-any-surface-a-writing-space-using-the-wii-remote/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/making-any-surface-a-writing-space-using-the-wii-remote/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Johnny Chung Lee, grad student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, at TED 2008 shows how the Wii remote can be used for more than just swinging virtual bats:
  
For more of Lee&#8217;s hacks as well as the code, see his Wii projects page. More on making any surface a writing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>what i&#8217;ve been thinking about lately</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/what-ive-been-thinking-about-lately/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/what-ive-been-thinking-about-lately/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently put together a grant proposal called, &#34;Mapping Relationships among Web 2.0 Applications: A Preliminary Investigation into a New Information Literacy,&#34; to be consider for a Non-salary Faculty Grant. These grants are given annually at Rowan and provide up to $5000.00 to support the initial stages of faculty research. I have also recently submitted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>mapping blog posts worldwide in real time</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/mapping-blog-posts-worldwide-in-real-time/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/mapping-blog-posts-worldwide-in-real-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ReadWriteWeb recently had two posts on information visualization. Marshall Kirkpatrick addresses the question of information overload by looking at how new visualization media are adapting from gaming interfaces. Sarah Perez lists The Best Tools for for Visualization by breaking the tools into several categories: Visualize Social Networks, Visualize Music, Visualize the Internet, among others. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>on voicethread book reports, reading guide dogs, and the lure of the blue</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/on-voicethread-book-reports/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/on-voicethread-book-reports/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been helping a colleague design her first Voicethread, and while I was on the site I came across a series of book reports by children that seem to be in the fourth grade. I have embedded one below and I don&#8217;t think I need to write why, though I will. Many of my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>mapping and tagging web 2.0</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/mapping-and-tagging-web-20/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/mapping-and-tagging-web-20/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My graduate course, Writing for Electronic Communities is currently working its way through Richard Landow&#8217;s tome, Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization. This is my first time making my way through the third edition (published in 2006). Though it is always nice to go back and visit Storyspace again, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>twitter explained</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/twitter-explained/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the great folks at CommonCraft, Twitter in Plain English:

An excellent explanation of Twitter&#8212;better than I ever could do when talking with students about it&#8212;but I must say that I do miss the &#8220;Hmm Hmm Hmm&#8221; that began and ended their prior videos.
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		<title>special web 2.0 issue of First Monday</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/special-web-20-issue-of-first-monday/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/special-web-20-issue-of-first-monday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via if:Book, the current issue of First Monday takes a critical look at Web 2.0. The table of contents:

Preface: Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0 by Michael Zimmer
Market Ideology and the Myths of Web 2.0 by Trebor Scholz
Web 2.0: An argument against convergence by Matthew Allen
Interactivity is Evil! A critical investigation of Web 2.0 by Kylie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>anticipating the future</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/anticipating-the-future/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/anticipating-the-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In two of my classes this semester, Writing for Electronic Communities and Technologies and the Future of Writing, we spend some time thinking about mid-20th century predictions about the future of electronic technologies. We read Vannevar Bush&#8217;s (1945) &#34;As We May Think,&#34; view Doug Englebart&#8217;s (1968) presentation that introduced the mouse, word processing, as well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>communities of practice</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/communities-of-practice/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/communities-of-practice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A student blogging at Care4Poor posted a link to this site as a humorous break from the all the technology frustrations she was having. Its an interesting video, however, to consider in terms of our reading for this week&#8212;Wenger&#8217;s (1998) Communities of Practice (interestingly, students have been blogging most about (read: complaining about) Wenger&#8217;s instructive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(re)searching google</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/researching-google/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/researching-google/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The March 2008 edition of Harper&#8217;s arrived today, and in it is a wonderful example of how internet technologies are not value neutral. Ginger Strand&#8217;s annotation &#34;Keyword: Evil&#34; (which Harper&#8217;s has made available for free online) spans two pages as she uses call-outs connected  to an architectural schematic to dissect the energy-use implications of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>more on &#8220;yes we can&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/more-on-yes-we-can/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/more-on-yes-we-can/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some folks at Viz are having an interesting discussion about Will.i.am&#8217;s &#8220;Yes We Can&#8221; video which I blogged about below. Melanie also points to this hilarious (and somewhat frightening) parody in which the performers try to find three words from John McCain that can inspire as much as Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Yes we can&#8221;:


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		<title>identifying top blogs</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/identifying-top-blogs/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/identifying-top-blogs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marshall at Read/Write Web has a useful new post &#8220;Comparing Six Ways to Identify Top Blogs in Any Niche.&#8221; The real discovery for me has been the Ask.com Blog Search. For the last hour I&#8217;ve been looking at the results of a search for &#8220;education&#8220;&#8212;the link to Weblogs in Higher Education was worth the time. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>mashing message</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/mashing-message/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/mashing-message/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Mind the Planet, &#8220;Yes We Can&#8221; by Will.i.am, performed by Will.i.am and others:

This past Friday I was at Writers House at Rutgers talking with Richard Miller, Paul Hammond, Darcy Gioia, Elin Diamond, Carolyn Williams, and a few others about the future of the humanities, what Richard is calling New Humanities. Part of that future [...]]]></description>
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		<title>let facebook change and take over your life</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/let-facebook-change-and-take-over-your-life/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/let-facebook-change-and-take-over-your-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diane Penrod over at Blogdelirium Redux points to this hilarious student-created eHarmony parody by creating stories around Facebook relationship status updates, groups, and poking (as well as another by the duo Rhett and Link). Hilarious.
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Credits: Produced for EXPOSED, a variety TV show at the University of Southern California. Directed by Mu Sun; Produced by Adam [...]]]></description>
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		<title>rutgers on moving toward the new humanities</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/rutgers-on-moving-toward-the-new-humanities/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/rutgers-on-moving-toward-the-new-humanities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Miller (at about 1:35 in) to the Rutgers Board of Governors (1/24/08): &#8220;It goes without saying that we are living at the time of the most significant change in human expression in human history.&#8221;

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		<title>blog-based peer review</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/blog-based-peer-review/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/blog-based-peer-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest issue of The Chronicle has an article called &#34;Blog Comments vs. Peer Review: Which Way Makes a Book Better?&#34; which describes an interesting experiment: to see which is more effective for reviewing a book, blog comments by a community of online peers or traditional peer review. Noah Wardrip-Fruin is posting portions of his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>blogging in plain english</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/blogging-in-plain-english/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/blogging-in-plain-english/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another gem from Common Craft (which I saw back in November but never pointed to it&#8212;odd):

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		<title>preparing writers for the future of information systems</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/preparing-writers-for-the-future-of-information-systems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 18 January 2008 I presented a workshop entitled, &#34;Preparing Writers for the Future of Information Systems,&#34; with Diane Penrod at the 4th International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society in Boston. The workshop was planned thinking that we had an hour: 15 minutes for me, 30 minutes of workshop and exploratory discussion, and 15 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>first spring day of class</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/first-spring-day-of-class/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its the first day of classes here at Rowan and Blackboard is giving me issues posting Web links, so here are the videos we are going to show in Introduction to Writing Arts:



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		<title>netvibes announces ginger</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/netvibes-announces-ginger/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/netvibes-announces-ginger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 04:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Netvibes, the RSS reader and information ecosystem that I have been using with my students has previewed ginger (to be released in January 2008), which has the much needed feature of social networking (which I hope will allow users to share ecosystems).
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		<title>common craft plain englishes blogs</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/common-craft-plain-englishes-blogs/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/common-craft-plain-englishes-blogs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 05:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>special section on folksonomies</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/special-section-on-folksonomies/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/special-section-on-folksonomies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Roy Tennant&#8217;s Current Cites, the latest edition of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology special section on folksonomies:
This special section of four articles plus a substantive introduction by the guest editor focus on user tagging and what has been called &#8220;folksonomies&#8221; &#8212; or user-created taxonomies. The articles are an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>npr does online courses</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/npr-does-online-courses/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/npr-does-online-courses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NPR&#8217;s Larry Abramson began a two part series this morning on Morning Edition on the growing trend of students taking courses online (according to a new Sloan-C survey, nearly 1 in 5 students take at least 1 online course). The first report is called &#8220;Online Courses Catch On in U.S. Colleges.&#8221; Abramson offers a surprising [...]]]></description>
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		<title>interactive touch media wall</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/interactive-touch-media-wall/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/interactive-touch-media-wall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my students, lee, posted a link that his girlfriend found (can I just say how much I love having blogs in this class) to a video for Jeff Han&#8217; s Perceptive Pixel&#8217;s interactive touch media wall (this is the link to the video, which I could not get it to embed) which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>annotating images with voicethread</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/annotating-images-with-voicethread/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/annotating-images-with-voicethread/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 06:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Brown over at Blogging Pedagogy (by way of Earth Wide Moth) points to Voicethread, an application which allows users to annotate images documents, and videos with sound and text from multiple users. I have been searching for something like this for quite some time. I&#8217;ll be interested to see what kinds of assignments Jim [...]]]></description>
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		<title>kindle</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/kindle/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/kindle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 06:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Geoff Carter on the techrhet list, Jeff Bezos on Charlie Rose talking about the Kindle:
The device is getting the full media blitz, most notably the cover story in Newsweek, claiming that it is The Future of Reading and that the Book Isn&#8217;t Dead. I wasn&#8217;t aware that the book was in critical care.I haven&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>more on the person of color as technology expert</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/more-on-the-person-of-color-technology-expert/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/more-on-the-person-of-color-technology-expert/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to my post about WetPaint videos, Jim Brown suggested that the casting of a black woman as the savvy tech person is consistent with Martin Kevorkian&#8217;s observations in Color Monitors: The Black Face of Technology in America. I just picked it up from my library today and couldn&#8217;t put it down. It is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iDisinfect</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/idisinfect/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/idisinfect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 05:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My old friend who is an art teacher in the town where I grew up (and I blogged about here) is having her students design advertisements based on the iPod theme. Students come up with their own poses to communicate a certain meaning. My favorite is by joseph318:

I am constantly amazed by the work her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>wetpaint macs wikis</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/wetpaint-macs-wikis/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/wetpaint-macs-wikis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 04:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Common Craft, WetPaint has created a series of video parodies to advertise their easy to use wiki service. WetPaint uses a WYSiWYG for editing, which seems to be less awkward than the one now being used by PBwiki. It also offers users unlimited memory, though there is a limit to the number and size [...]]]></description>
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		<title>one laptop per child give-one, get one campaign</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/one-laptop-per-child-give-one-get-one-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/one-laptop-per-child-give-one-get-one-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
I have been meaning to post this reminder that the One Laptop Per Child Give One, Get One campaign is currently under way. Between Nov 12 and Nov 26 you can purchase 2 of the way cool, eco-friendly, hand-powered, solar-powered, outlet-powered OLPC laptop for $399 (plus shipping) and one will be donated to a child [...]]]></description>
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		<title>seinfeld does hp</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/seinfeld-does-hp/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/seinfeld-does-hp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 15:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The graphics in the new HP commercial featuring Jerry Seinfeld are incredible.

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		<title>arc-ing the waste land</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/arc-ing-the-wasteland/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/arc-ing-the-wasteland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am loving TextArc, though I am somewhat amazed that I have never heard of or seen it, especially since it has been around since the mid-late 1990s. The creator, Paley, tapped into Project Gutenberg to be able to TextArc thousands of works. The TextArc of  The Waste Land brings a whole new dimension [...]]]></description>
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		<title>rutgers announces writers house</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/rutgers-announces-writers-house/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/rutgers-announces-writers-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpq1yZOrtYA
Update 10/24: An uncut, extended version has been leaked:

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		<title>reviewing twine</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/reviewing-twine/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/reviewing-twine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 13:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read/WriteWeb has a review of a new application by Radar Networks called Twine, which was announced on October 19, 2007 at the Web 2.09 Summit. The company describes Twine as &#8220;a revolutionary new service that helps you share, organize, and find information.&#8221; It is &#8220;a new service for sharing, organizing and finding information with people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Blogging Scholarship</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/the-blogging-scholarship/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/the-blogging-scholarship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just came across this: The Blogging Scholarship. Funded by College Scholarships, this is an annual award that provides college student bloggers up to &#8220;$10,000 to help pay for books, tuition, or other living costs.&#8221; Full or part-time students eligible. The 2007 deadline has just passed (see the 20 finalists, which have blogs on a range [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1 of 1 million on facebook</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/1-of-1-million/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/1-of-1-million/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, after reflecting on the fact that I talk about it all the time with students regardless of what class I am teaching, I decided to take the plunge and get a Facebook account. According to the fascinating Wired article, &#8220;How Mark Zuckerberg Turned Facebook Into the Web&#8217;s Hottest Platform,&#8221; I was 1 of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>rss feedin&#8217; my students&#8217; blogs</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/rss-feeding-me-my-students-blogs/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/rss-feeding-me-my-students-blogs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 04:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;m exhausted, so not a lot about this, but to say that I really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>two cfps on spaces</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/two-cfps-on-spaces/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/two-cfps-on-spaces/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two CFPs have been announced that ask participants to consider &#8220;space&#8221; or &#8220;place&#8221;:
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.

7th Annual Louisiana Conference on Language [...]]]></description>
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		<title>composing ecologies</title>
		<link>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/composing-ecologies/</link>
		<comments>http://williamwolff.org/composingspaces/composing-ecologies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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