Drum roll please....Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom has arrived! I just got my advance copy today and couldn't be more pleased with the production. U of Mich Press did a fantastic job putting this thing together, and of course all the chapters are must-reads for any teacher interested in wikis, if I do so say myself.

If you do get a copy please let us know what you think!

Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy requests nominations for its three annual awards, which will be presented at the 2009 Computers and Writing Conference at University of California-Davis. The deadline for nominations for all awards is February 1, 2009.

The Kairos awards page has complete information about all awards and a list of past winners.

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.

Is anybody else having fun with the new gmail themes? I am really impressed with some of them, especially the retro "Terminal." On a related note, is anyone using the gmail video or voice chat? How does it compare to Skype?

Greetings. We are conducting a preliminary online survey aimed at assessing the role of open source software in the scholarly and pedagogical practices of the Rhetoric & Composition and English Studies community. As a scholar and teacher of Rhetoric & Composition and/or of English Studies, you are being invited to participate in this survey. Please take a few moments to respond to this very brief ten-question survey on the subject at the link provided below.

Newly co-published by Furtherfield and The Hyperliterature Exchange: an appreciation of David Daniels, the great shape-poet, who died in May 2008.

"Daniels is one of those figures who straddles the divide between digital and pre-digital art and literature... His art is about liberation, uninhibited outpouring, spontaneity and fun."

To read the whole article, go to http://www.hyperex.co.uk/reviewdaniels.php .

I just found a link to Between, an interesting-sounding game published by Esquire. Here's the snip:

Rich Beckman, the new Knight Chair of Visual Journalism at the School of Communication at the University of Miami, started a series of multimedia workshops at his former institution, University of North Carolina. He's relaunching them at UM. While the main focus is on journalism, these intensive courses also look interesting for computers & writing folk, so here's the link for the website describing them and giving registration information. Also, what could be better than Miami in January?

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:

Reminder -- Proposals Due November 30th
http://digitalcelt.com/CFP_Metamorphosis.pdf

Call for Essays on Graduate Student Professional Development