Procrastadabbler

I’ve been really discouraged about my research/writing recently and really hating my teaching as well (not all of it, just parts). I can’t give up my teaching (it pays the bills), but I stepped away from the writing to see if it would make me feel better – not so stretched. I have writing projects [...]

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Weaving in and out of the critique of the new literacies is the concern that forms such as twitter, blogging, IM, email, RSS feeds etc are contributing to the lack of ability among people to attend to lengthy, in-depth texts. The argument goes that we have become so accustomed to gathering our information in bursts [...]

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I work alone, a lot. And I like it. I like the hours of solitude tapping away at my computer and visiting with my books. But there is a need for fresh ideas and to be able to bounce ideas around. And that’s where twitter and facebook come in. Those two tools are becoming more [...]

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I’ve placed myself in exile from Facebook and Twitter. Too many distractions, and too many people saying stupid things that were making me angry. I was taught don’t say anything if you can’t say something nice. Well, the past few days I’ve been wanting to rip a new one for a few people. So I [...]

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I revisit the Pew Internet and American Life report on Youth and Writing. It was published in the spring, I believe, and I read it quickly back then, but just recently I dug into it more, and have found some things that I need to think about more and question. There is a difference between [...]

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