Pedagogy… We all need readers – celebrating the Dissertation Writing Retreat 24 May 201324 May 2013 As I write this sitting in England, I know that back at the University of Louisville they are getting ready for the last day of the University Writing Center's annual…
Literacy… Literacy in a Material World – in the Writing Center 27 Aug 2012 As I mentioned in my previous post, working in a writing centerreveals the fluid nature of materiality/immateriality when we think about literacy. The material context of literacy can be immediate…
Pedagogy… The simple art of listening to – and caring about – what students say 4 Mar 2012 Time for a bit of rant today. I was at a local conference on teaching recently, doing my dog-and-pony show about how students engage with digital media outside the classroom…
Digital Media… Ideology, surveillance, and the software in our classrooms 4 Feb 201212 Feb 2012 I've agreed to write a chapter for a very exciting new collection being edited by Robin Goodfellow and Mary Lea, titled Literacy in the Digital University (Robin's blog on the…
Digital Media… Genre, Interfaces, and Ways We Teach Digital Writing 30 Dec 2011 I was having coffee the other day with my friend and colleague Ryan Trauman and we got to talking about how we approach teaching people to compose texts using digital…
Digital Media… Space, Boundaries, and Movement 30 Jul 2011 It's been wonderful to have a couple of weeks of travel after the conference was over -- great times in Ireland and Scotland with family and friends. But I don't…
Pedagogy… The Two-Way Bridge (Part 1) 14 Jun 201116 Jun 2011 If I have problems with the metaphor of popular culture being conceived of as a "bridge" from less worthy literacy practices to more valuable and acceptable academic literacies (see below),…
Pedagogy… The One-Way Bridge, Part 2 17 May 201116 Jun 2011 At a conference last week I heard several people defend the approaches to popular culture and literacy pedagogy that I define as the "One-Way Bridge." They talked of the ways…
Pedagogy… The One-Way Bridge 12 May 201116 Jun 2011 For a long time there has been a lot of discussion in literacy and writing education, at both the K-12 and college levels, about "using" popular culture as a "bridge"…
Digital Media… Enjoying the fast water 23 Jan 201116 Jun 2011 On the one hand, trying to sort through where the changes of digital media have left the study of literacy and rhetoric can seem daunting. The change is often so…
