Hi,

New here but already asking for help..!

I am working with an International School in England. I have created an Internet space where children at the school (the current group is aged 14-15) can work with other children to explore the idea of global citizenship. The site uses Wiki and Blog technologies to enable the young people to drive the project forward themselves with myself and the other staff there to help, prompt, advise but not run the project.

I am looking for schools/organisations who would be interested in joining the project. At the moment the site is password-protected and, at least for the initial stages, I am looking at keeping the project just to invited schools. If it takes off of course I would like to open it up to the wider Internet. At this stage though my aim is to help the young people concentrate on the content and the connections they can make with other young people and with the issues.

Games, Learning & Society Conference 2005: Call for Papers
June 23-24, 2005 . Madison WI
www.glsconference.com

Please see call for proposals for the Games, Learning &
Society conference to be held in Madison, Wisconsin June 23-24, 2005--www.glsconference.com.

Sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Academic ADL
Co-Lab, the GLS Conference will foster substantive discussion and
collaboration among academics, designers, and educators interested in
how videogames – commercial games and others – can enhance learning,
culture, and education. Speakers, discussion groups, interactive

I am pleased to announce that several new publications are available on the WAC Clearinghouse (http://wac.colostate.edu).

Across the Disciplines (http://wac.colostate.edu/atd/) announces its second volume. New work includes a new column on secondary education and writing centers/WAC by Pamela Childers and articles by Jonathan Hall, Robert Samuels, Jessica Yood, Linda Anstendig, Eugene Richie, Shannon Young, Pauline Mosley and Bette Kirschstein. New articles and materials will be added to the volume as the year progresses.

Janice Lauer's book, Invention in Rhetoric and Composition, is now available in PDF format for free download from the WAC Clearinghouse at http://wac.colostate.edu/books/lauer_invention/. Published jointly with Parlor Press, which offers the book in print-on-demand and various digital formats, Lauer's book is the first in the series, Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition, which is edited by Charles Bazerman. New volumes are forthcoming in the series and will be announced as they are made available.

Last semester, just before we went public with the Writing Studio (http://writing.colostate.edu/studio), I put together a (very) simple Blogging tool for the Studio. Basically, it allows writers to create a Blog, share it with one or more Studio-supported class pages, and/or share it with the world through the Writing@CSU Writing Gallery. They can also keep it private if they want to.

It occurred to me that some of you might be interested in it. I haven't enabled any RSS feeds (nor would I have the faintest idea of how to do that) or other things, but it does allow writers to create a blog and get replies to entries.