Because I do not expect anyone to pay one hundred and eighty of their hard-earned dollars for an academic book, I thought that you might want to let your school's librarian know about this great new book called Design and Implementation of Educational Games, which I co-edited with Diane Wilcox and which is to be released at the end of March or in early April by IGI-Global. if you don't like to read traditional books anymore, an electronic version is also available.

Make your plans now! We invite proposals for work-in-progress discussions at the 11th annual Graduate Research Network at the 2010 Computers and Writing Conference hosted by Purdue University.

Spatial Praxes: Theories of Space, Place, and Pedagogy, a 2012 summer special issue of Kairos
Guest Editors: Dr. Amy Kimme Hea, Ashley J. Holmes, and Jennifer Haley-Brown

This seminar focuses on helping first-year writing teachers and administrators improve writing instruction. Prominent figures in the field run all-day workshops that facilitate the integration of innovative pedagogies and practices. This year's keynote address will be given by Katie Malcom and Nancy DeJoy the evening of June 6. Full-day workshops will be facilitated by Bump Halbritter, Karl Stolley & Amy Ferdinandt Stolley, Patricia Sullivan, Lisa Green, Nancy DeJoy & Steven T. Lessner, June 7-11, respectively. Participants may attend one or more days of the workshop.

In "ordinary life" I work as an administrator in the NHS, and in collaboration with my friends Julian Le Saux and David Hindmarsh I have recently started to put together a series of 10-minute puppet-videos chronicling the misadventures and frustrations of an ordinary (but rather hirsute) General Practitioner called Dr Hairy.

Newly co-published by Furtherfield and The Hyperliterature Exchange: an appreciation of Millie Niss, the writer and new media artist, who died in November of last year.

This semester another instructor and I are going to attempt "across-section" collaboration on projects. For a large project pairs or threesomes of students from his writing section will collaborate with pairs from my section of a technical writing course. The goal is to have students experience online collaboration similar to an all-online course, but with with an extensive safety net.

Anyone else work with a colleague to create virtual teams? What worked and what didn't?

My 11yo gamer son plays a text adventure for the first time... and asks for another one before bedtime. We stayed up until almost midnight, and I posted these screencasts the next day.

We started with Adam Cadre's "9:05", and continued with the Crowther and Woods classic "Colossal Cave Adventure".

Writing instructors who teach online or in networked classrooms are embracing highly collaborative Web 2.0 applications in their writing pedagogy. This essay collection, under contract with Fountainhead Press in the X Series for Professional Development, seeks to provide writing instructors with examples of writing classroom pedagogy that has creatively and effectively used new Web 2.0 applications in composition courses (such as FYC, Research Writing, Basic Writing, Argumentative Writing,and so forth).