The University of Texas Computer Writing and Research Lab has developed Viz., a portal for teachers and researchers of visual rhetoric. Viz. offers a blog, a bibliography of visual rhetoric sources, and various assignments for instructors.

The goal of the site is to

The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence is publishing a collaborative book called We Are Smarter Than Me. From the site:

Be an author of the first networked book on business. Together we will write the book on how the emergence of community and social networks will change the future rules of business. Collaborate with authors from MIT, Wharton, and thousands of professionals from around the world. See your name in print when the book is published next fall by Pearson Publishing. Meet your co-authors in March, 2007 in Las Vegas at the Community 2.0 event.

The latest issue of Innovate is devoted to open source:

contributors explore, assess, and illustrate the potential of open source software and related trends to transform educational practice.

For those not familiar with Innovate, it's a peer-reviewed, online journal that also offers Webcasts where you can interact with authors of articles. The Webcasts for this issue are November 7 and 16.

Is it possible that I beat Charlie Lowe to this? Certainly, he's typing an entry as I write this.

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The University of Texas Computer Writing and Research Lab's eJournal Currents in Electronic Literacy announces a new format and announces a Call for Reviews:

We are excited to announce that Currents is moving in a new direction. The Spring 2007 issue of Currents will focus on reviews. We believe a journal based on reviews can be of much greater relevance to the field than our past models, which consisted of a few long articles supplemented by short book reviews. However, in this new model we will conceive of “reviews” more broadly. In addition to reviewing books, we are soliciting reviews of software, websites, blogs, conferences, parallel academic programs, and pedagogical practices. We hope that the new version of Currents will point out emerging trends in the field of electronic literacy.

The University of Texas Computer Writing and Research Lab (CWRL) has recently launched a new blog called Blogging Pedagogy.  We describe the mission of our blog as follows:

This is a blog about pedagogy and English studies. It is a space to share stories, successes, and failures. The hope is that a blog format will connect assignments with specific teaching styles and philosophies.

While our focus is on English studies, we also welcome more broad discussions about pedagogy in other fields.  In the future, we hope to add a weekly installment "Podcasting Pedagogy" in which we'll talk to those throughout the field(s) of English studies about pedagogy.