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CultureCat | Rhetoric and Feminism: "Like medical doctors who learn from nutritionists, shamans, and artists without compromising their professional status, we can benefit from examining how the extracurriculum confers authority for representation and how we might extend that authority in our classes. Our students would benefit if we learned to see them as individuals who seek to write, not be written about, who seek to publish, not be published about, who seek to theorize, not be theorized about. (p. 89)"

CultureCat | Rhetoric and Feminism: "The extracurriculum I examine is constructed by desire, by the aspirations and imaginations of its participants. It posits writing as an action undertaken by motivated individuals who frequently see it as having social and economic consequences, including transformations in personal relationships and farming practices. (p. 80)"

I am Dan: "I wouldn’t say this was the buzz theme of the conference, but I did get a sense that the recent heavy focus on visual rhetoric was now being supplemented by aural concerns as well. I have to wonder about the perennial question about the purview of writing—what gets (de)emphasized when we move into writing programs film, images, sounds, etc?"

I am Dan: "A major focus of the conference for me and my colleagues from UNC, Erin Branch and Stephanie Morgan, was the podcast workshop we ran on Thursday. We got lots of positive feedback from participants and will likely try to develop the Web site for the workshop into something more substantial. I think it is fair to say that parts of the computers and writing community are beginning to emphasize and study the uses of sound in composition. I wouldn’t say this was the buzz theme of the conference, but I did get a sense that the recent heavy focus on visual rhetoric was now being supplemented by aural concerns as well. I have to wonder about the perennial question about the purview of writing—what gets (de)emphasized when we move into writing programs film, images, sounds, etc?"

BBC World Home Page: "What is the best way to teach someone about computers who has never seen one before? What about simply providing children with a PC and seeing what happens? Dan Simmons reports on just such a project taking place across India.
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betwixt & between: decade - something from trAce: "I am writing to invite you to make a contribution to ‘decade’ (); an online writing project being launched this week to celebrate ten years of innovative digital activity at trAce Online Writing Centre, NTU. The completed project will take the shape of a writing 'quilt' of what I hope will be many different responses to technology and change."