Uncategorized Starting Again, and Focusing on Writing 4 Sep 20134 Sep 2013 The start of the fall semester should mean that summer is over - though the weather outside in Louisville reminds us otherwise. Regardless of the weather, I realized a while…
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…
Uncategorized Teacher as the Enemy? Again? 1 Oct 2012 My father used to say that there were three things people always thought were better when they were young: religion, sports, and schools. He was right that, in all three…
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…
Uncategorized… Dancing with Don – Reflections on an 8-year-old Piece of Writing 27 Nov 201128 Nov 2011 Back in the winter of 2003-04, back before Barack Obama had been elected to the Senate or YouTube or Facebook had been launched - and when I was still an…
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…
Digital Media… My Thing About Blogs 4 Jan 201116 Jun 2011 I've wondered, over the past decade, why I have been hesitant to start a blog. It's not a matter of thinking that there aren't ideas on blogs worth reading. It's…
