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Today a student e-mailed me that she was confused by the university's new student portal, so she used Google to search for my senior-level writing course. Instead of locating the advanced technical writing course site, she stumbled into my personal pages and my business pages.
This is not much of a problem, since my personal pages deal with my freelance writing. Having a student read my CV isn't exactly an issue. It's not exciting reading.
Abhay Parekh recently launched a new application, Flowgram, that those in the computers and writing crowd may want to check out. Think of it as Powerpoint-plus. An online screencasting program, Flowgram enables you to load URLs, images, and Powerpoints onto the web, to add layered audio, notes, and highlighting, and then to play the pages or to share them.
_Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture_, an online, interdisciplinary journal listed on the MLA and other databases, is looking for someone with technical expertise and a commitment to being
a full-fledged member of our editorial collective. _Reconstruction_ is in its eigth year of production, is read in 110 countries, and has a non-robotic hit rate of 1500 per day.
If you are interested in this position or know anyone who might be, please
Stargate Atlantis needs our help! Sign the petition!
According to CNET, starting October 1, Comcast is capping your monthly usage to 250Gb a month. If anyone hears about a class action lawsuit against this, please let me know. I will gladly sign up.Not only do I have to pay $50 a month for mediocre service, but now they are going to tell me what "acceptable" uses of the web exist.
I don't know how everybody else is faring now that Obama has chosen Joe Biden for his running mate...You've no doubt heard about Biden's Pro-RIAA, pro-FBI voting record. Still, we can hope that all this talk about the "little guy" will somehow pertain to people besides Jack Valenti, who is surely not all that downtrodden (really). Being disgruntled (and wondering if anyone has ever been just gruntled?), I checked out some of the fringe action and found some interesting stuff.
Hi,
I am just about lead a major change to the way we assess learning and teaching at our University.
I am hoping some members of this community will vist this site and post a comment
http://medusa.ballarat.edu.au/wordpress/jameso/student-evaluation-of-tea...
Lookng forward to hearing from you
Exploring a Corpus-Informed Approach to Writing Research
CFP:
Since the development of the Brown Corpus in the 1960s, leveraging language corpora and corpus-based methods to analyze and to describe spoken and written language has become an established tradition within the broad field of linguistics.
Just read that some 100 odd college and university presidents are calling for a reduction of the drinking age to 18. They seem to think that'll cut back on drinking, since there will no longer be a need to binge when the coast is clear. However, MADD is, uh, not happy about it, and has accused these presidents of not doing their homework.
