Gmail - [techrhet] thanks and best wishes to tari: "At SCSU, our Intensive English Center has existed in part on Connections,
and there Strider made a space where students visiting or recently moved to
the U.S. could construct something that was not so totally American that
they were aliens. In one class, two inimical students built bots to scream
at each other and kick each other to pieces, and they had to collaborate on
the cues for the bots so that they would work the way they wanted them to.
And Strider's spaces are filled with things he created for students to write
on -- refrigerators, baseballs, walls, bombs, pumpkins, tombstones, Elien
Golzalez, whatever -- and they did, the students wrote all over the place."