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Rhetoric RSS FeedsHappy Holidays! - Happy holidays, everyone! ...Feed Source: kairosnews.org CCCC - I would appreciate assistance uploading my text for the pre conference CCCC workshop. Thank you in advance, Mary. ... Update on Anti-Linux Teacher - Here's an update on my earlier post about the Austin teacher who confiscated her students' linux distros: Character-Assasinations-Ain't-Us. The author here seems to want to mend the damage and soften up the rhetoric from the Linux community towards this ignorant teacher. Here's a snip:read more... UK degree in Social Technology - London South Bank University is now offering a 3 year program (BA) in Social Technology. Here's the description: "This is an innovative course in a new and rapidly developing area of modern society that will give you the opportunity for in-depth study of the implications and applications of modern technologies. The focus is on people?s use of technology rather than technology for its own sake."
Anyone know of a commensurate undergraduate degree in the U.S.?... Spam Bots Get Poetic - Here's a truly bizarre site I found today via Google: Pub Games Rings. It appears to be a site generated for the sole purpose of boosting its own Google rank (or at least the rank of the many sites it links to), but what's interesting here is the almost pastiche-like quality to the thing. Isn't this poetry?
reindeer old fashioned glasses buffalo wings and onion rings dining rooms
It's at least as good as a Captain Beefheart album. :) ... Job Listing: Assistant Professor of College Reading - For readers of Kairosnews who are interested in adult literacy or related fields: please consider applying for the position listed below. If this is not your field, please feel free to forward the message to anyone you think might be interested.
Thanks,
Rob Milde
---------------------------------------------------read more... The Puzzle Box, Chapters 11 & 12 - read more... No Software is Free! Teacher confiscates Linux CDs. - Here's one that's bound to get your blood boiling: Teacher confiscates Linux CDs, claims no software is free. I'd hate to be on the receiving end of this middle school teacher's email queue today. I love this quote from her email:
At this point, I am not sure what you are doing is legal. No software is free and spreading that misconception is harmful. These children look up to adults for guidance and discipline.read more... European Writing Teacher - This is the first semester I've used Google Docs. I'm quite excited about it, because participants in my courses are getting more and better feedback. OTOH, they are all PhD and Postdoc, and used to using EndNote, which Google Docs unforunately does not support (it strips the notes). GD also doesn't support some of the common visual formats, which is fair enough. Some journals don't either. read more... The CC "noncommercial" survey - Lessig has posted a request for Creative Commons users to complete a questionnaire regarding the term "noncommercial."
If you are a CC user, take a few minutes and complete the survey.
BTW: I've always been bothered by CC's definition of noncommercial use because it attempts to define the character of the use (through the use of the term "commercial advantage") rather than just making it about free access to the work. I don't care at all if a for-profit entity uses my work as long as they are not charging for access to it and it is clearly licensed. For those that are interested, here's the relevant paragraph from the legal code of one of the licenses:
You may not exercise any of the rights granted to You in Section 3 above in any manner that is primarily intended for or ... Finally back - Ugh, it's been forever since I posted. Not much has been happening to speak of, really -- Henry is growing, of course; he has his two front lower teeth, but those top teeth have been taking their time coming in. He laughs all the time, especially when I laugh at something. I'm watching him gum Cheerios right now. We're finally getting his nursery in shape; I just bought a 4-in-1 crib that converts into a toddler bed, a day bed, and a full-size bed. I also got him some wall-mounted shelves for books and these prints, which I hung up in a windowpane configuration.
I have a ton of research work and teaching prep to do, as one would expect, and not much time for it. However, I am making one much-needed trip to Florence, AL before the semester starts. I leave tomorrow. More soon.
By the way, I am so glad I'm not at MLA.
... Craft Wreath - For years now, I've been wanting my mom to send me our old Christmas tree ornaments, of which there are boxes and boxes (and boxes!). Now that we're homeowners, she has sent us these boxes. I've had this craft project planned since probably 2006 or so; I know we had some very nice ornaments, but we also had some cheapo ornaments too. I thought I'd upcycle them into a wreath. Finally I have had the opportunity to do this, and here's the result on our door:
... Foods Henry Has Eaten So Far - human milk
formula
apple juice
applesauce (baby kind)
applesauce (adult kind with cranberry and raspberry)
rice cereal
barley cereal
prunes
pears
whole wheat toast
yams (at a restaurant I gave him a bite of mine)
hummus (ditto)
peas
yogurt
"green vegetables" with brown rice, which he hated
butternut squash, which he also hated
carrots
oatmeal (Quaker Nutrition for Women kind, vanilla cinnamon flavor)
smoothie (Naked brand, the green one)
bananas (both fresh and pureed)
... 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.
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