Who Participated in the Metaconversations?

Dan Butcher

Dan Butcher is an instructor at Southeastern Louisiana University, where he has taught freshman composition and sophomore literature surveys for almost seven years. He has served as lead editor for his department's custom composition reader, Acts of Discovery. In 1999, he co-authored the Companion Website for The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Writing, 2/e. In the spring of 2000, he is teaching his first online composition course.

dbutcher@selu.edu

course pages and materials

Allyn and Bacon companion website

Greg Beatty

Greg Beatty is in the final stages of writing his dissertation at the University of Iowa; send supportive thoughts his way to keep the revision fires burning. He's writing about serial killer novels. In addition to studying genre fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror, and detective fiction), early American magazines, composition, creative writing, and online pedagogy/cyberculture, he spends his spare time wondering why traditional academic departments have a tough time classifying him.

gbeatty@earthlink.net

Nick Carbone

Nick Carbone authored Writing Online: An English Student's Guide to Internet and World Wide Web, 3rd. Ed.; he served as the reviews editor for Kairos and is now on its Editorial Board; he is currently the Teaching Practices Editor for Academic.Writing and a member of its editorial board. He's published & given conference presentations and workshops on community service learning, computers and composition, writing theory and practice, and teaching writing. He doesn't like answering machines, fax machines, or flying (because the airlines offer such lousy service and tortuous seating). His favorite color is purple, although he can't stand reading Alice Walker.

Instructor (though hired as Asst. Prof and downgraded for not finishing Ph.D.) of English at Colorado State University. He holds a B.A. in English from Lyndon State College, M.A. from Boston College, and his Ph.D. from UMass at Amherst is due in May (if all goes well). Nick serves as Writer's Center Director and Writing Across the Curriculum Coordinator.

ncarbone@lamar.colostate.edu

Colorado State Writer's Center

Johannes Cronje

Dr. Cronje is Associate Professor of Computer-Assisted Education, Department of Didactics, at the University of Pretoria. His interests include learning theory, particularly constructivism and cooperative learning; he is also interested in the way in which the Internet in general and the WWW specifically can be used to support co-operative, constructivist learning. Professor Cronje is the coordinator of GUIDE (the Group using the Internet for Development and Empowerment), and of GAME (the Group for the Advancement of Multimedia Exploration). He hosts some "Virtual Classrooms" for and with his graduate students, many of whom have continued his work in other arenas. He is deeply involved in C@TTS(The Computer-Assisted Teaching and Training Society of the University of Pretoria).

jcronje@UP.AC.ZA

Professor Cronje's home page

the Virtual Museum

Daphne Desser

An assistant professor at the University of South Carolina since August 1999, Dr. Desser has been instrumental in bringing computer mediated pedagogy initiatives to the university. She co-founded and currently co-directs the Program for Incorporating New Technologies in English (PINTE), which offers support and training for faculty and graduate students in the English department to teach writing using on-line course software, MOOs, discussion boards, web design, and web analysis. Currently over thirty sections of undergraduate and graduate English are being taught in a computerized setting for the first time under the direction of PINTE. In the academic year 99-00, she will have given nine technology oriented presentations, from formal presentations at national conferences to campus-wide hands-on workshops on teaching with technology. She is currently teaching a graduate seminar on "Computers and Writing," and she has published on-line scholarship and work on computers and composition.

desserd@gwm.sc.edu

CourseInfo site (email Dr. Desser for guest username and password)

Will Hochman

Will Hochman was the Director of the Writing Program at the University of Southern Colorado and has recently accepted a position in the English Department of Southern Connecticut State University. He is the poetry editor of War, Literature & the Arts and the reviews editor of Academic Writing. Hochman is the author of several books of poems, and his fiction and essays have been widely published as well. He initiated a collaborative project, "Hypertext Reflections," which was awarded "Webtext of the Year" by Kairos in l998.

whochman@sjc.edu

Fred Kemp

Fred Kemp received his Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition with an emphasis in Computer-Based Rhetoric at the University of Texas at Austin in 1988, where he was instrumental in founding and directing UT's Computer Writing Research Lab. He is Co-Director of the Alliance for Computers and Writing, for whom he manages a set of World Wide Web Pages. He is also founder and current president of The Daedalus Group, Inc., a company prominent in the development of educational software, and is co-author of DIWE, the Daedalus Integrated Writing Environment (1990 EDUCOM/NCRIPTAL award winner for best writing software). He is also the principal developer of TOPIC, a systems-oriented web application which manages Texas Tech's large composition program. The Internet email discussion lists he has founded include Megabyte University (MBU-L), ACW-L, and WCENTER. He has written and presented extensively about computer-based writing pedagogies.

f.kemp@TTACS.TTU.EDU

James Potts

James Potts is currently completing a dissertation in American Literature at the University of South Carolina, on masculinity in four Southern authors. He has been teaching college students for four years; for three and a half of them, he has required them to use e-mail and has exchanged drafts with them steadily. He says that between the students and the professors, the students are ahead with technology--and too many good tools are going to waste.

potts@axs2k.net

Ben Reynolds

Ben Reynolds, M.A., works at the Center for Distance Education, CTY/Johns Hopkins University. He first taught f2f composition in 1978. He founded the Center's distance education Writing Tutorials in 1983, a year after he bought an Exxon wordprocessor and printer that made his home office look like NASA Mission Control.

Ben.Reynolds@jhu.edu

Writing Tutorials

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