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Publications of Various Sorts"How Many Technoprovocateurs Does It Take to Create Interversity?" in Taking Flight with OWLs: Examining Electronic Writing Center Work, edited by James Inman and Donna Sewell, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000. An exhortation to writing center folks to make diligent their efforts to envision the world beyond the conventional university and to act assertively on those visions. Includes the clearest portrayal of what I mean by interversity that I've published in print to date. "At Home in the MUD: Writing Centers Learn to Wallow." in High Wired: On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational MOOs, edited by Cynthia Haynes and Jan Rune Holmevik. University of Michigan Press, 1998. An assertion (with examples from my computer-classroom days and from The Online Writery) that to the extent we're able to go beyond doing-what-we're-doing-only-online (using MOOs, in this case, as the means of going beyond), we may in fact begin doing what we're really supposed to be doing: allowing play and conversation to flourish.
Various bits in Works and Days 29/30, Vol. 15, Nos. 1 & 2,
1997: Originally these were email message posted to the TicToc Project discussion list as part of conversations leading up to a symposium held in Chicago, May 1996, hosted by the University of Illinois-Chicago. The list discussions, and related texts, comprised this issue of Works and Days. Two of the texts above were originally delivered as speeches prior to being posted to the TicToc list. Writing Online: A Student's Guide to the Internet and the World Wide Web (co-authored with Nick Carbone). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. Designed to be a sort of "foot stool" to help people get over the initial and sometimes frustrating humps of getting online and learning to work in the online world. Includes discussion of issues facing folks new to the net. Nick and I did the first two editions of the book together, then I turned it over to him for the third edition. "TechnoTreachery: Play Infiltrates School" in About Campus, Jossey-Bass, March-April 1996, Vol. 1, No. 1. pp. 20-23. About how MOOs can introduce play into the often too-self-serious world of the academy and why this is a Very Good Thing.
(co-authored with Michael Day and Rebecca Rickly) Computer Networking and Scholarly Communication
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Twenty-First-Century University. Edited by Teresa M. Harrison and
Timothy Stephen. Albany, NY: SUNY UP, 1996. pp. 291-311. A defense of realtime discussion tools, which in the academy are often considered to be frivolous games and wasters of time and computing resources. We argued that those programs are legitimate scholarly and teaching tools. "When Worlds Collide: Merging Face-to-face and Virtual Academic Conferences" (co-authored with Marcy Bauman and Russ Hunt) The New Writing Environment: Writers at Work in a World of Technology. London: Springer, 1996. The annual Computers and Writing Conference in 1994 (which I chaired) was the second to host an online conference as well as a face-2-face event (University of Michigan, 1993, was the first). This article reviewed and analyzed the various ways the two connected events worked together, sometimes well, sometimes not. "It's Fun to Have Fun But You Have to Know How! or, How Cavorting on the Net Will Save the Academy" (co-authored with Rebecca Rickly) Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1, January 1, 1995. I think it's important to quote Dr. Suess at every opportunity. This was the first time I did it in a peer-reviewed academic essay. Becky and I argue that the interactivity on the net tends to make interaction more fun than the usual stuff in classroom and professional communication, and that fun is a worthwhile goal in itself. |