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Rhetoric RSS FeedsLift up your heads, O ye gates - Newly co-published by Furtherfield and The Hyperliterature Exchange: an appreciation of David Daniels, the great shape-poet, who died in May 2008. "Daniels is one of those figures who straddles the divide between digital and pre-digital art and literature His art is about liberation, uninhibited outpouring, spontaneity and fun." To read the whole article, go to http://www.hyperex.co.uk/reviewdaniels.php . read more...Feed Source: kairosnews.org Between--Weird Game from Jason Rohrer - I just found a link to Between, an interesting-sounding game published by Esquire. Here's the snip:read more... Beyond Bootcamp Multimedia Workshops - Rich Beckman, the new Knight Chair of Visual Journalism at the School of Communication at the University of Miami, started a series of multimedia workshops at his former institution, University of North Carolina. He's relaunching them at UM. While the main focus is on journalism, these intensive courses also look interesting for computers & writing folk, so here's the link for the website describing them and giving registration information. Also, what could be better than Miami in January?... Creative Writing and Comp Jobs (Tenure-Track) at Seton Hill University - English:
Seton Hill University seeks published novelist of popular fiction (preferably mystery/suspense), to teach and to mentor novel-length theses in the graduate low-residency Writing Popular Fiction program (half-load), and to teach undergraduate courses in creative writing and first-year composition.
Candidates should hold a Ph.D. in English, MFA considered. Background in journalism, publishing, and/or editing a plus. Teaching experience/potential at undergraduate level desirable.
Composition: read more... CFP [collection] Metamorphosis:The Effects of Professional Development on Graduate Students - Reminder -- Proposals Due November 30th
http://digitalcelt.com/CFP_Metamorphosis.pdf
Call for Essays on Graduate Student Professional Developmentread more... The Puzzle Box, Chapter 10 -
"Urizen is trapped by his own laws. He no longer truly believes in anything outside himself. His only way of relating to the outside world is either to fear it or to steal something from it. He has turned the infinite possibilities of the human heart into a little machine of self-interest. And because of that, his life is a life without hope.?
In search of Dora's box, the children find their way right to the heart of Urizen's headquarters, and discover something entirely different from what they were expecting.read more... Writeroom: If you still miss your typewriter - My friend Bill sent me a link this morning to Writeroom:
WriteRoom is designed for distraction free writing. If you are looking for a programmer's text editor or tool to help you manage large writing projects then there are better choices. If you need syntax highlighting and command line integration try TextMate. If you need to manage large writing projects try Scrivener. If you just need to block out distractions and write then I think WriteRoom is a great choice.read more... Reminder: Karos Special Issue CFP: dot mil (November 1, 2008) - Just a reminder that proposals for the Kairos special issue on rhetoric and the military are due November 1, 2008. ... Some Fun Games for the Holidays - With the holiday break coming up, I thought ya'll might appreciate some tips on some fun, non-violent adventure games to wile away those lonely wintry hours. read more... Howard Rheingold Starts a "Social Classroom" - Read/Write/Web reports on Rheingold's new project--the "Social Classroom." According to the story, it is "an open-source Drupal-based web service to teachers and students for the purpose of introducing social media into the classroom."
So, is this anything more that a Drupal distribution designed for learning and teaching? I think a lot of us who use Drupal-based sites already do that stuff. Perhaps I am missing something. ... Bullets -
Today I bought four bags of books at my university library's used book sale. Score!
Henry has TWO teeth now, and he likes to chew my fingers with them.
I'm doing a conference presentation at LACC on Saturday, and I think I might do a ten-minute presentation containing the primary information/argument, then use whatever time I have left for some outtakes. The title is "'No More Than a Year': Isocrates and the Assessment of First-Year Writing." With this presentation, I may or may not be embarking on a new series of research projects. I am definitely entering an area that is not very familiar to me (assessment) and another area that is outside my main specialty (classical rhetoric). The outtakes, which have to do with ideas of natural ability, are interesting, but they don't quite fit into the main focus of the presentation.
... Pediatrician Michael Melancon - He's good. Two weeks ago today, we saw him for Henry's six-month visit, and I showed him Henry's shaky sitting-up technique. He took one look and said, "I give it two weeks, then he'll be sitting up without assistance." One week and six days later, Henry did it. Here's a video from earlier this morning:
... 2008 Ragin' Cajuns Homecoming Parade Soundtrack -
"I Wanna Dance With Somebody" -- Whitney Houston
"Hey Ya!" -- Outkast
"Yeah!" -- Usher, Ludacris, Lil Jon
"Bad Moon Rising" -- Creedence Clearwater Revival (played by a cover band on the float)
"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" -- Cyndi Lauper
... A Collection of Good and Not-So-Good Reasons for Assigning a Personal Narrative as the First Essay in a Composition Course - Apropos of a lecture I attended yesterday by Bruce Horner* and some general thoughts I've been having lately about this issue, I've decided to collect as many reasons as I can think of for assigning some sort of "personal essay" as the first assignment in a college writing course. These are reasons I've heard other people cite and reasons I came up with myself when examining this question as a thought exercise. I'm not saying all of these are good reasons by any means, only trying to compile a list. Please let me know if you have other reasons.
1. Start inward, go outward: or from individual concerns to social concerns. This is one of the ideas Horner critiqued, actually; he argued that it rests on assumptions that those two things are uniform and monolithic (I would add, not to mention mutually exclusive).
2. Building blocks: provide students "an initial experience in expression" wh... WSJ Note - The Wall Street Journal news feed is always kind of screwy in my experience, but I got a kick out of this. It seems they couldn't just pick a verb and stick with it:
... Feminisms and Rhetorics 2009 - I'm being asked by a few folks to circulate the following call for proposals for the next Feminisms and Rhetorics conference, which follows below. Bravo to Michigan State for taking out the parentheses -- as in feminism(s), rhetoric(s). If we're going to use the plural, let's use the plural.
One bit of criticism I have, which isn't necessarily directed toward Michigan State's department, or even the Feminisms and Rhetorics conference, is that I wish we could start putting conference sites in ONE place, like all FemRhet conference sites could be on the Coalition's site. We tried to do that with Computers and Writing, but it didn't catch on, as Stanford did their own site for 2005's conference, Texas Tech did their own for 2006, Wayne State did the same ... Resurrection - Enculturation and The Writing Instructor, two journals that had gone a few years without publishing, are back online. I'm happy to see them.
... CCCCs' Use of the Web - It's a little late to try to circulate this ad (deadline is tomorrow), but I'm going to do it anyway. CCCC is looking for a web editor:
The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) is seeking applications from CCCC members for a new position as CCCC Web Editor (to be distinguished from CCC Online Archivist). The CCCC Web Editor?s term will be three years (non-renewable) beginning as soon as possible after the application deadline and ending in December of 2011. This is a volunteer position.
Actual programming or Web building is not required. Instead, the CCCC Web Editor will have the responsibility of orchestrating uses of new Web building structures made available in the coming months (e.g., blogs, Wikis, Face Book and so on), moderating new community spaces, publishing relevant information, and working with NCTE/CCCC to develop a stronger Website with new features. We antic... I want your teeth for the Federal Reserve - It's starting to feel that way, isn't it? I dread seeing our next TIAA-CREF statements, ugh.
... No! Not that face! - is what we say when he makes the following face:
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