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".

Assistant Professor of Composition/English

Seton Hill University seeks specialist in Composition/Writing Studies for tenure-track, Assistant Professor of English, beginning fall 2010. The faculty member will teach composition and related courses in the Undergraduate Writing Program, with additional generalist responsibilities in English. 4/4 course load. A Ph.D. in Composition/Rhetoric is required. Additional experience in literature desired. Background in writing program administration, assessment, and/or writing in the disciplines favored.

Institution: Seton Hill University

IHE has an article about a meeting between Blackboard execs and frustrated users.

No surprise: The long tail means that the top 10% Twitter users accounted for over 90% of tweets (this is the same distribution I've noticed in my student blogs, though my prolific students are also more likely to write *longer* posts, rather than *more frequent* posts)

Anybody looking for a roommate for Computers & Writing in June?

Male, non-smoker, enjoys wandering in the woods with a shiny brass lantern...

For those who are intersted, I've blogged my notes from CCCC 2009.

On the official course evaluation form at my school, students tick a box that indicates whether the course involved group work. I get to tick off a separate box, in which I indicate whether I think group work is important for the course, but seeing that box there semester after semester naturally makes me think of more ways to do group work.

English:

Seton Hill University seeks published novelist of popular fiction (preferably mystery/suspense), to teach and to mentor novel-length theses in the graduate low-residency Writing Popular Fiction program (half-load), and to teach undergraduate courses in creative writing and first-year composition.

Candidates should hold a Ph.D. in English, MFA considered. Background in journalism, publishing, and/or editing a plus. Teaching experience/potential at undergraduate level desirable.

Composition:

My school, Seton Hill University, recently won a multimillion dollar instruction technology grant, part of which includes funding for a new technology specialist (which will become a permanent job when the grant ends). 

In helping to write the job notice, I drafted the "you-attitude" paragraphs, with the references to Bioshock and lolcats.

From the Chronicle -- an interesting power play for control over intellectual property:

In what appears to be a new policy, the American Psychological Association will require authors who publish in its journals to let it deposit their papers in open-access repositories — and it will charge them $2,500 to do so.