Bill Wolff's Composing Spaces

Chris Anson of North Carolina State University forwarded a link on the WPA list to a pointed and hilarious letter from Pat Conroy to the editor of the Charleston (WV) Gazette in which he lambastes the Kanawha County school board’s suspension of his books, The Prince of Tides and Beach Music. The letter begins with: I [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpq1yZOrtYA Update 10/24: An uncut, extended version has been leaked:

Just came across this: The Blogging Scholarship. Funded by College Scholarships, this is an annual award that provides college student bloggers up to “$10,000 to help pay for books, tuition, or other living costs.” Full or part-time students eligible. The 2007 deadline has just passed (see the 20 finalists, which have blogs on a range [...]

Michael Wesch, creator of The Machine is Us/ing Us, has collaborated with 200 students in his Cultural Anthropology class to create a new video, A Vision of Students Today: The video, set in a 60s- or 70s-era stadium-seating lecture hall, presents the technological and educational habits of the 200 or so students in his class. It [...]