I noticed Trent Baston has been writing some interesting opinion pieces for Campus Technology. Yesterday's article was "Learning in the Webiverse: How Do You Grade a Conversation?" Here's the teaser:

Academics have long talked of the "academic conversation." Now, Web 2.0 has called our bluff. We live in the midst of a non-stop world conversation. But, are conversational skills (in writing) important and, if so, how do we teach them?

See also these recent articles:

CALL FOR PAPERS: Edited Collection on Technology-Focused Collaborative Research in English Studies

WORKING TITLE: “Investigating Digital Tools, Texts, and Use Practices: Collaborative Approaches to Research in English Studies”

Kairos Reviews is currently seeking reviews for the following texts. If you are interested in reviewing these or other texts (including Web-based and new media resources) appropriate for Kairos, please email a letter of interest and a brief CV to kreviews@technorhetoric.net

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• Ron Burnett’s How Images Think (2005)
• Angela Crow’s Aging Literacies: Training and Development Challenges for Faculty (2006)
• Christine Harold’s OurSpace: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture (2007)

Many of you have already seen this on WPA and TechRhet. I'm hoping to reach as many people as possible, so thanks for your patience!

Colleagues:

I am writing to thank those of you who participated in my Online Writing Instructors: Preparation, Development, and Support study and to encourage those of you who teach writing online but have not completed the anonymous thirteen-question survey to do so now. Your feedback is extremely important to me, so I have decided to extend the participation deadline to Wednesday, November 30th. The survey can be accessed online at

http://ksuweb.kennesaw.edu/~lmcgrat2/OWIPDS/online_survey.html