Today, Kairosnews is the site of an exciting new concept: a session of the Computers and Writing Online 2003 conference. Today's session, Open Anarchy or Closed Dictatorship: Methods of Producing Collaborative Teaching Texts, is moderated by Dave Munger, aka wordmunger on Kairosnews. I'll be posting entries like this one throughout the day, with links to relevant sites that should serve as the basis for discussion of the many complex issues surrounding the collaborative creation of teaching texts.

As you may know, tomorrow, Dave Munger will be hosting a session of C&W 2003 Online on Kairosnews which will examine issues of publishing open content. Beginning tomorrow morning, Dave will be blogging discussion points throughout the day and everyone is encouraged to join in.

Hope this will be an active session in which we can explore some/all of our ideas about open content.

For those new to Kairosnews, I've posted some instructions (see notice about the session in the right menu on the Kairosnews home page or click here).

I've prepared a companion site for the Computers and Writing Online session that will be hosted on Kairosnews next week. I've listed several possible topics for discussion, but I'd appreciate suggestions for additional ones! Also, please note the debut of Kairosnews' new Open Content topic, accompanied by the Commontext logo. Thanks, Charlie!

I'm conducting a survey to support my presentation at CCCC next month. I hope to uncover some of the attitudes about publication of teaching materials in the world of rhetoric and composition, particularly as they relate to copyright and the open-source movement.

The survey's home is here.