Hi Pat,
Here I am. Sorry. I would most likely Blog from school, so maybe FRiday is a better day. Let me know what you think. Yes, we can use this blog to discuss ideas for the ACE article. I'm not sure the moo is good, since it doesn't keep a record for us.
BTW, how's your interdisciplinary collaboration going?
I am having a good year so far. This is my third year in CyberEnglish and I have some ideas for change as always, but the basic stuff is serving me well so far. This Wednesday, the kids are going to use the discussion list I made in FrontPage to talk about the book we're reading, the young adult novel Speak. I'll let you know how that goes. I also want to use the computers for more than web publishing. For example, I want to use the editing feature/add comment in Word to do a back and forth thing with the kids. I used that with L.Reid who edited my article for the E.J. and it was a wonderful experience. I had used it before, but really had a great sense of how the editor/writer relationship can develop using that tool. And sort of like email, you can get a sense of the other person by their comments and their ideas.
I am beginning to see how our conversations with each other using email and other kinds of technology does not obscure who we are as people. There were those who feared this very thing, that computers would make us all robots. I think it has given us another rhetorical space as Nancy P. calls it and we, as adaptable humans, have adapted. Our voices, meaning our personalities, come through loud and clear.
It's almost like the keyboard is a more direct conduit to our voices than pen an paper are. I have no proof of this, only an inkling that it's true.
Anyway, I'm off to a journalism board meeting tomorrow, but I will try much harder to blog with you regularly. My life is an asylum this year, and i just have to find creative ways to balance it all.
Best to you,
Dawn