The Department of Writing and Linguistics at Georgia Southern University is also seeking to fill two openings for tenure-track assistant professors in Professional and Technical Writing.  I am pasting the body of the ad here and a much prettier version is also availabe online at http://class.georgiasouthern.edu/pdf/65386.pdf.  Please share this posting with anyone you know who might be interested.  I am happy to answer any questions.

The thirteenth Dr Hairy instalment, concluding the first series of short videos about the adventures and frustrations of an ordinary (but rather hirsute) General Practitioner. In this one, Dr Hairy reaches a crisis in his career and decides to seek the help of a mentor - with hilarious results!

I've been doing some research lately into how an "achievement system," popularized by modern videogames such as Halo and Gears of War, might be a great way to spur student participation in wiki projects. I just finished reading a great essay called "Using Wiki technology to support student engagement: Lessons from the trenches" published in Computers & Education 52.1 (2009). The author, Melissa Cole, found that most of her students weren't interested in her wiki at all, and no one had made any contributions to it after 5 weeks! The reasons ranged from the classic "I just couldn't figure it out..." Uh, come on, it's a wiki--you know, the simplest possible website to edit? The students were seniors, so I just don't buy that. The others claimed it was too time consuming, or, more honestly, that they just didn't have an interest it. As far as I can tell, the wiki wasn't part of the grade, so that probably explains a lot of Cole's trouble.