The face of the English department is changing. Rhetoric and writing are replacing literature as the department mainstay. According to Marc Bousquet there has been a decline in tenure track English teaching positions due in part to a shift from…
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Digital natives need admin support!
by Ryan • • 0 Comments
I think Prensky writes a very commanding article. So does Jenkins. But both men speak outside of their own personal experience. I wonder what a young student, say perhaps a 7th grade girl, would have to say about the use…
Snack Wrangling
by Kim De Vries • • 9 Comments
Please refer to the class schedule and in a comment here, tell me which day you’d like to provide food and drink–each date will have 2 people. 9/24 Kim and Mike 10/8 Nobody 10/22 Alex Janney 10/29 Ryan and Mariana…
Oh God! Is that a mushroom cloud in the horizon?
by mbond • • 0 Comments
Postman and Prensky really got me thinking about the fear and caution kinda inherent in technology. Reading Prensky allowed me to diagnose my fear as a symptom of Digital Immigrant status. By this I don’t mean to demean immigration as…
English Allies
by Mariana • • 0 Comments
I ended my blog with this question: To me, since reading and writing go hand-in-hand, shouldn’t they be allies in the digital takeover? “The Figure of Writing and the Future of English Studies” made me wonder about the content of…
Questions inspired by my blog: Culture’s Price
by Mariana • • 1 Comment
At the end of Postman’s “First Idea” section of his article, he says, “Idea Number One, then, is that culture always pays a price for technology”. This inspired a lot of material for my blog in addition to a lot…
Installing and Using a Chat Client for IRC
by Kim De Vries • • 5 Comments
To meet in a chatroom, everyone in class will need to install a “chat client.” This is a little program the will connect to the chat, show you what people are saying in one window, and allow you to add…
What is the Internet For?
by Kim De Vries • • 0 Comments
Look at the argument you made about the internet for today’s class. Compare it to the three models of arguments and decide which it resembles most closely. As a group, compare your arguments and see what ideas and evidence you…
English 5010 Student Blogs
by Kim De Vries • • 12 Comments
You are all setting up your own blogs, joining the people who contribute content to the web rather than just consuming it. You have become “prosumers” or “produsers.” Welcome to Web 2.0! From a presentation by Axel Bruns.
Blog URL
by Mike • • 2 Comments
This my blog URL: http://mcalou.wordpress.com/