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From the Managing Editor
by Michael J. Salvo On collaboratory promise, decentralized publication and coverwebs. |
From the News Editor by Corey Wick Really, isn't everything about Kairos "news"? |
Beyond the MLA Handbook: Documenting Sources on the Internet Andrew Harnack and Gene Kleppinger |
A Response to Harnack and Kleppinger Janice Walker |
Pedagogies in Virtual Spaces: Writing Classes in the MOO Eight hypertext authors accept the call to survey the resources and methods available to teachers of writing in synchronous MOO space. For everyone from beginners to wizards, from K-12 through graduate school, this is a series of reviews, suggestions, and commentary on the present and future(s) of MOO-based writing pedagogies. |
Hypertext And/As Collaboration in the Computer-Facilitated Writing Classroom
by Douglas Eyman Hypertext can be used--in nearly any type of computer-assisted class--to allow students to engage in collaborative, socially-constructed composition and meaning-making. |
Reader as User: Applying Interface Design Techniques to the Web
by Karen McGrane Chauss Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Teachers of writing can learn from research done in studying interface design, as both emphasize the need for a thorough audience analysis to determine the tasks, goals, and needs of the reader or user. |
Staying Human in the Digital Age: A Guided, Annotated Tour of One Person's Adventures Teaching and Writing in Cyberspace
by Lawrence J. Clark Tomball College The ironies of life in the Digital Age--how can we interact more with a machine than with "real" people and still call ourselves "human"? Examine a day in the life of a cyber-teacher who searches for answers to the "big" questions. |
InterMOO: Amy Bruckman
Corey Wick and Greg Siering of Kairos swap pixels with MIT's MediaMOO wizard about constructionism, M**Space and how kids learn. |
Nick and Ted's Excellent IBM E-venture
by Nick Carbone and Ted Nellen Carbone and Nellen share ideas, anecdotes and opinions about the IBM Summit on Literacy and Technology. Read their unedited electronic dialogue, complete with links to the Summit and other notable resources. |
Conference Roundup
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Stuart Moulthrop's Hegirascope
by John Tolva and David Balcom A Note from the Links Editor |
Christina Haas' Writing Technologies: Studies on the Materiality of Writing
by Lee Honeycutt |
Ron Burnett's Subcultures of Vision: Images, the Media and the Imaginary
by Susan Lang |
Summer 1996
Eric Crump, Bill Hart-Davidson and the team of Amy Hanson and Elizabeth Pass contribute to our editorial board's virtual (Burkean) parlor. |