Else-If-Then

Author: Kim

  • Slides from CCCC 2009

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    I just noticed that I never posted the slides from my talk at the 2009 Conference on College Composition and Communication.  So here is a pdf version of the slides. Here is the abstract: Since the earliest MUDs, MOOs and networked composition classrooms of the 1990s, composition teachers and scholars have been thinking, speaking, and…

  • Blogging and the Paperless Class.

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    I recently manned (womanned? personed?) a table at our school’s little tech fair; my subject was this post’s title. I am using blogs exclusively in my classes now–I’ve dropped Moodle, wikis or other platforms.  For me the choice was not between blogs and paper– but that’s the choice for many of my colleagues, hence my…

  • Upgrade Complete, Revision in Progress

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    Finally upgraded the WordPress Installation and am now tinkering with the theme. More soon. 🙂 Some of the things that look like they can be edited in the Theme Options page seem not to be changeable.  Time to mess with the templates… Wheee!

  • Redesign Coming Soon

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    Ok, I have now mastered just enough knowledge of the WP templates to be disatisfied with how this blog is working.  Sometime very soon I’ll be doing a major redesign, as well as expanding the content, though the latter will probably wait until summer. My other projects have slowed down because funding at my school…

  • New Media (or whatever we call it) at the MLA

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    From 27-30 December I made the traditional pilgrimage of English faculty everywhere to the annual conference of the Modern Language Association, since time immemorial held between Christmas and New year’s. This year, lucky for me, it was held in San Francisco. Bigger and … well, bigger than ever. Forty-eight concurrent sessions every day, from 8:30…

  • Tangled in WordPress templates

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    Well, slowly getting the blog sorted, but it’s more time-consuming than I thought. Also more interesting. I can see how tinkering with this stuff could become a real time-sink! Plus, importing from Blogger changed all the tags into categories, so I have to go through and decide which should go back to being tags (most…

  • Hello again…

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    Just migrated to this WordPress blog at my new website.  Took two tries to get it installed the way I wanted it, and I’m still not totally happy with the theme, but it will do for now.  Regular posting should resume soon, I hope!

  • Wow, long timelines

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    Sometimes I am amazed at how long journals still take to get articles and reviews into print. Given how quickly things get posted online, I would have thought they would all be changing their practices in order to not get left behind entirely. I mention this by way of introducing the following review. i wrote…

  • A page from the Mirkopedia

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    A page from the Mirkopedia Originally uploaded by cuuixsilver The defense is probably not quite over, but already Mirko’s influence is spreading. It seems he has been recognized as exemplifying many sterling qualities! –Update– Now all is concluded and Mirko has been duly promoted to his proper place as Dr. Mirko.

  • Bastard Culture!

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    My good friend, Mirko Tobias Schäfer is defending his dissertation today. In fact, by the time many of you read this, he may already be finished and recognized as Dr. Schäfer. 🙂 It has been my pleasure for the last 15 months or so to read Mirko’s manuscript, Bastard Culture! User participation and the extension…