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Rhetoric RSS FeedsDr Hairy in: Mentoring - p img alt=Mentoring image src=http://drhairy.org/mentoring.jpg //p p The thirteenth Dr Hairy instalment, concluding the first series of short videos about the adventures and frustrations of an ordinary (but rather hirsute) General Practitioner. In this one, Dr Hairy reaches a crisis in his career and decides to seek the help of a mentor - with hilarious results!/p p To view the video on my site, go to a href=http://www.edwardpicot.com/drhairy/mentoring.mov title=http://www.edwardpicot.com/drhairy/mentoring.movhttp://www.edwardpicot.com/drhairy/mentoring.mov/a ; or you can see it on YouTube at a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs4O9SuYfto title=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs4O9SuYftohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs4O9SuYfto/a ; or it should be on DVblog (a href=http://dvblog.org title=http://dvblog.orghttp://dvblog.org/a) in the near future./p p The whole Dr Hairy series is now available in DVD form at a href=http://drhairy.org title=http://drhairy.orghttp://drhairy.org/a - per...Feed Source: kairosnews.org Call for 2012 Technology Innovator Award Nominations - p
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The CCCC Committee on Computers in Composition and Communication will honor an innovator in our community at the 2012 Computers and Writing Conference at North Carolina State University, and we need your help to identify a person who has pushed our field regarding excellence in teaching, more rigorous scholarship, and deeper levels of service./p
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Among other qualities, this year#39;s innovator will be the person whom you recognize as having done the most to help other teachers use computer-mediated learning and teaching and has served as a mentor to those new to computers and composition./p
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This year#39;s recipient should be a person who pushes the envelope, who moves us beyond the cutting edge to the bleeding edge, who is willing to open the technological Pandora#39;s Box kn... Using Achievements to Spur Wiki Participation - p
I#39;ve been doing some research lately into how an quot;achievement system,quot; popularized by modern videogames such as Halo and Gears of War, might be a great way to spur student participation in wiki projects. I just finished reading a great essay called quot;Using Wiki technology to support student engagement: Lessons from the trenchesquot; published in Computers amp; Education 52.1 (2009). The author, Melissa Cole, found that most of her students weren#39;t interested in her wiki at all, and no one had made any contributions to it after 5 weeks! The reasons ranged from the classic quot;I just couldn#39;t figure it out quot; Uh, come on, it#39;s a wiki--you know, the simplest possible website to edit? The students were seniors, so I just don#39;t buy that. The others claimed it was too time consuming, or, more honestly, that they just didn#39;t have an interest it. As far as I can tell, the wiki wasn#39;t part of the grade, so that probably explains a lot of Cole#39;s troubl... Call for Papers: Winter 2012 Issue of Academic Exchange Quarterly - p
The Winter 2012 Issue of emAcademic Exchange Quarterly/em, an independent double-blind-peer-reviewed print journal, is now accepting submissions for its special section on Writing Center Theory and Practice.nbsp; Articles may explore issues of theory, practice, and experience in writing center work, including qualitative and empirical studies and discussions of pedagogy./p
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Articles may also consider the following: How writing center professionals cope with change and the eventuality of needing to expand their efforts in response to new economic and demographic challenges.nbsp; Furthermore, as we move towards increasingly viral and technologically dependent learning communities, how can these efforts help meet the evolving demands of our students?nbsp;/p
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In addition to Writing Center Directors and other Administrators, submissions are also welcome from professional staff, faculty tutors, and a href=http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/rufengs.htmgraduate students/a who work in the ... Position Announcement: University of Central Florida - p
I am writing to share information about a vacancy in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at UCF. Please excuse cross-postings. Please also share this information with any interested graduate students who are about to graduate./p
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Department: Writing amp; Rhetoricbr /
Search Committee Chairperson: J. Blake Scottbr /
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p I.nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; The Department of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Central Florida is seeking an instructor to teach primarily online upper-division writing courses. This is a 9-month renewable appointment, contingent on available funding, with the possibility of an additional summer appointment. The load will be four writing courses each fall/spring; service duties are also expected, and may include curriculum development and program assessment. Although the teaching as... 2012 Kairos Awards--Nomination Deadline is February 27! - pstrongemKairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy/em/strong requests nominations for its annual awards, which will be presented at thestrong 2012 Computers and Writing Conference/strong./p
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For complete information about all awards and a list of past winners,please visit a href=http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/awards.html target=_blankhttp://kairos.technorhetoric.net/awards.html/a./p
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* strongThe Kairos Best Webtext Awards/strong, for the best academic webtext published in the previous calendar year (the webtext does not have to be published in emKairos/em). For criteria and submission guidelines, please visit a href=http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/awards/webtextnom.html target=_blankhttp://kairos.technorhetoric.net/awards/webtextnom.html/a. Webtexts must have been initially published between January 1 and December 31, 2011./p
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At last! A layman#39;s guide to the UK Government#39;s healthcare reforms, explaining them in terms so simple they might have been written by a complete idiot, and charting the development of health care from the good old days to the present and beyond - with hilarious results! In fabulous stickman-o-vision, with bits of colour. Kind of a Dr Hairy spinoff, but the Dr Hairy episode it span off from hasn#39;t been made yet./p
p To see it on YouTube go to a href=http://youtu.be/k-heGn8QzGg title=http://youtu.be/k-heGn8QzGghttp://youtu.be/k-heGn8QzGg/a ; or to download it from my site right-click a href=http://drhairy.org/problemofhealthcare.mov title=http://drhairy.org/problemofhealthcare.movhttp://drhairy.org/problemofhealthcare.mov/a and select quot;Save as quot;/p
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... Job Posting- Associate Director for Writing at Sixth College/ Academic Coordinator I UC San Diego - p
Sixth College at the University of California, San Diego, is committed to academic excellence and diversity within the faculty, staff, and student body.nbsp; The department seeks a Writing Director / Academic Coordinator who will also serve as Associate Director in the Culture, Art, and Technology program at the college.nbsp; Details about the program may be found at a href=http://sixth.ucsd.edu/http://sixth.ucsd.edu/a and at a href=http://cat.ucsd.edu/http://cat.ucsd.edu/a.nbsp; UCSD is a Research I Institution with a diverse student body./p
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Apply through UCSD Academic Personnel Services: a href=http://academicaffairs.ucsd.edu/aps/adeo/recruitment/jobDetails.asp?PositionNumber=10-380 title=http://academicaffairs.ucsd.edu/aps/adeo/recruitment/jobDetails.asp?PositionNumber=10-380http://academicaffairs.ucsd.edu/aps/adeo/recruitment/jobDetails.asp?Posi /a Reference job 10-380/p
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... Psychedelic Pie and The Last Collaboration - p
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p quot;Psychedelic Piequot; is a psychedelic video with a psychedelic sound-track, created from materials found on the Web. You can see the video on YouTubenbsp; at a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS4Wpx5QKXc title=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS4Wpx5QKXchttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS4Wpx5QKXc/a, or on my site at a href=http://edwardpicot.com/psychedelicpie.mov title=http://edwardpicot.com/psychedelicpie.movhttp://edwardpicot.com/psychedelicpie.mov/a. Attributions: backward guitar and psychedelic viola by Robinhood76; psychedelic percussion by Satoration; sitar by Kaiho - all from a href=http://www.freesound.org title=www.freesound.orgwww.freesound.org/a. Morning traffic timelapse by MegaTokkie, YouTube. Blackrock Sunrise (community video); London Underground (community video); and Haleakala Sunset by Mike McCabe - a href=http://www.archive.org title=www.archive.orgwww.archive.org/a./p
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The Graduate Research Network (GRN) invites proposals for its 2012 workshop, May 17, 2012, at the Computers and Writing Conference hosted by North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC.nbsp;/p
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The Camp;W Graduate Research Network is an all-day pre-conference event, open to all registered conference participants at no charge. Roundtable discussions group those with similar interests and discussion leaders who facilitate discussion and offer suggestions for developing research projects and for finding suitable venues for publication.nbsp; We encourage anyone interested or involved in graduate education and scholarship--students, professors, mentors, and interested others--to participate in this important event. The GRN welcomes those pursuing work at any stage, from those just beginning to consider ideas to those whose projects are ready to pursue publication. Participants are also invited to apply for travel funding through the CW/GRN Travel Grant Fund./p
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Deadline for submis... Composition Colloquium - pimg src=http://culturecat.net/files/CompColloquium.jpg //p
... The Semester in Review - pOn Monday, a student in my Modern Composition Theory seminar requested an overview of what we'd done during the semester for the purposes of studying for the rhet-comp comprehensive exam. So I took an earlier handout I'd given them -- a list of the semester's readings in chronological order -- and grouped them roughly, which is what the student had asked me to do. /p
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pWe used the emNorton Book of Composition Studies/em in the class, and (as it's on the reading list for the PhD comp in rhetoric and composition) I intended it as a foundational text to sample the ideas in the field's history. The students are working on their own projects as well, which entail a lot of... The 2011 CCCC Intellectual Property Annual - pThe a href=http://www.ncte.org/cccc/convConference on College Composition and Communication/a is going on right now, and this very afternoon is the CCCC Intellectual Property Caucus meeting. You should all go if you're in St. Louis for the conference; it starts at 2:00 this afternoon. /p
pEvery year, the Intellectual Property Committee publishes an a href=http://culturecat.net/files/2011CCCCipAnnual.pdfAnnual/a (PDF), and I encourage you to check out the 2011 issue. Here's the table of contents: /p
pIntroduction: Copyright and Intellectual Property in 2011br /
Clancy Ratliff/p
pThe Defeat of the Research Works Act and Its Implicationsbr /
Mike Edwards/p
pOpen Access Initiativesbr /
Annette Vee/p
pOne Step Forward, Two Steps Back: What Golan v. Holder means for the Future of the Public Domainbr /
Traci Zimmerman/p
p?Sentence First?Verdict Afterwards?: The Protect IP and the Stop Online Piracy Actsbr /
Kim D. Gainer/p
pA Dark Day on the Internet Leads to a Sea Change in Copyright Policy... Costs of Care - pa href=http://www.costsofcare.org/Costs of Care/a has an annual essay contest in which they collect essays by medical professionals about how financial matters factor into the care they offer to their patients. These are the winners: /p
pa href=http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2012/02/doctors-expected-financial-engineers.htmlDoctors Cannot Be Expected to Be Financial Engineers/a/p
pa href=http://costsofcare.blogspot.com/2012/01/expensive-pain-in-neck.htmlAn Expensive Pain in the Neck/a (this one is by a patient)/p
pa href=http://costsofcare.blogspot.com/2012/01/treating-heart-failure-on-100-budget.htmlTreating Heart Failure on a $100 Budget/a/p
... Fashionably Late to the Sirc CCCarnival - pI'm responding, past deadline, to Michael Faris's a href=http://michaeljfaris.com/blog/2012/02/call-for-cccarnival-sircs-resisting-entropy/carnival prompt/a, in which he suggests that we read Geoffrey Sirc's Resisting Entropy, a review essay published in emCollege Composition and Communication/em's most recent issue. /p
pDisclosure: I got my PhD at the University of Minnesota, and Geoff was on my dissertation committee. Knowing what I do of the institutional context here, I appreciate this article on a whole other level (not necessarily a higher level, to be sure). The U of M, for a very long time, offered first-year writing in three different departments: English, Rhetoric, and General College. I taught it in the rhetoric department: Rhetoric 1101 was the required course. English had their own course -- their graduate students taught a 1-1 load to our 2-1 in rhetoric -- and General College, a unit that mostly served underprepared students, had theirs. Geoff taught in General College ... CCCC-IP Position Statement on Plagiarism Detection Services - pWell hello! How shameful that I haven't posted since July. This is just a quick link to the a href=http://culturecat.net/files/CCCC-IPpositionstatementDraft.pdfCCCC Intellectual Property Caucus's position statement on plagiarism detection services/a. It doesn't seem to be online anymore, and I've been asked to provide it, so I'm uploading my copy as an attachment to this post. /p
... Facebook (or Foursquare) Check-in as Rhetorical Act - pI just got an iPhone about a month ago, and I've been taking advantage of the check-in feature from time to time. I can't help but notice where people are when they choose to hit the check-in button, though. The laundromat? McDonald's? Walmart? The Exxon station? The free clinic? Not so much. Check-ins are all part of the crafting of the person we want to show people. Why else do we do it? To let others know where we are in case they're also there? We would have seen them already anyway. To let people know where we are if they're nearby?* They probably wouldn't actually come to that place to see us, for fear of seeming stalkerish (I wouldn't take it that way). /p
pI'm as guilty as anyone of checking in at emcertain/em places: the gym, the public library, the science museum, the farmers' market, church. These places tell people what -- that I care about being a good mom, that I care about health and intellectual enrichment. One of my FB friends has great check-ins: Big Lots, Long John ... Poem from a Car Trip, Mid-1980s - pIt's possible that I wrote this poem by myself, but I suspect I had some help. /p
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pThe illustrations are a moist towelette (sink) and this bedpan-type potty my mom always had in the car on long road trips./p
... Indirect Assessment of ULL's First-Year Writing Program - pI recently received an a href=http://apfd.louisiana.edu/grants-awards/Instructional-Improvement-Mini-Grants.pdfInstructional Improvement Mini-Grant/a (link goes to a PDF) to do a somewhat large-scale indirect assessment project for our a href=http://english.louisiana.edu/about-us/firstyearwriting/index.shtmlwriting program/a. I, along with my most excellent a href=http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~crs1693/index.htmlresearch assistant/a, have distributed a survey to 512 students so far, with maybe about 35 more surveys expected. /p
pHere is our survey. You can see that it's based on the a href=http://comppile.org/wpa+nsse/Consortium for the Study of Writing in College/a's survey instrument created by:/p
pCharles Paine, Robert Gonyea, Paul Anderson, Chris Anson, ?Continuing the WPA-NSSE Collaboration: Preliminary Analysis of the Experimental Writing Questions and Next Steps? Council of Writing Program Administrators Conference, 11 July 2008, Denver, Colorado./p
pa title=View ULFYWquestions ... My second Prezi - pI gave another talk yesterday using Prezi. I kind of like it even though there are many who don't and/or who think it's just a fad. The fact that it's something new and different from PowerPoint is, for me, a good thing./p
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