the forgotten canon

Regent University’s Theater Dept. tried something interesting: blend Shakespeare’s As You Like It with modern technology using texting, Twitter and Ning. As we entered the theater audience members were told they could subscribe to the text messages, follow the Tweetstream, or participate on a Ning. As interesting as the concept seemed to be it ended up being an epic failure. Issue #1...

Below is a recording of my presentation at 4Cs this year: Making .WAVs: Basic Writers “Drop In” in Freshman Writers. The premise of my talk was that rather than focusing on what basic writers can’t do, we should focus on what basic writers can do well–multimedia. You need to have flashplayer enabled to watch this Google video

A great laugh (and commentary) on the status of digital media studies within English departments.

As many folks out there know CL and I both had grand plans for digital dissertations. When the reality of what we could and could not do became clear to us, we chose two different paths: I bailed on the idea since I just wanted to get done, while CL revised her original plan but pushed forward with a significant digital piece. Since last fall we’ve frequently talked about the issues we encou...

I’m just back from a great Computers & Writing at UGA. It’s always good to see old friends and meet new ones! I was able to participate in one of the last panel presentations on Sunday entitled, “The Instability of New Media Performed in One-Minute Provocations,” organized by Jim Kalmbach and Cheryl Ball. The panel consisted of authors from their new edited collection R...