"At WritingWiki.org we are collaborating on articles and beginning an effort to create an online classroom that would serve as a medium for students to post their work and conduct peer review. Here, too, in time we would like to develop a free online rhetoric." (Italics Mine).
This is what I am talking about. We should use our technology to delimit knowledge, making it less costly for our students, more accessible to them, and more functional for us. Down with rhetoric textbooks! Up with a free (or much less costly), delmited rhetoric that allows instructors a vast array of choices of what reading to assign in the classroom. I am tired of struggling with the limitations of a published and printed text that forces me to leave out some pedagogical priorities for others.
About Me
- J. Edwin Paschke-Johannes
- n. ('jA-'ed-w&n-pash-kE-jO-'han-es) 1. A male homosapien of U.S. citizenship, w/ diffused hereditary origins from the Polish, Swiss, German, Lithuanian, Nebraska white trash, and Minnesota backwoods missionary. 2. Name of said male homosapien. 3. One of few individuals, if not the only one existent, to be credited, on public records and various publicly distributed documents, with a Bachelor of Arts in English Education from Midland Lutheran College and a Master of Arts in English, specializing in Creative Writing (Fiction), from Iowa State University, and enrolled in a doctoral program in English, specializing in Rhetoric and Composition, at Ball State University. 4. One of a married couple that have adopted two children, a precocious female and winsome male, from Ethiopia, thus constructing a nuclear family known as “multicultural,” or specifically “transracial,” and grafting onto the couple’s mutual/individual family tree a branch that, to America's racial psyche, is considered radically divergent.
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Jeff, you certainly make it less costly for me when I used the technology you presented for Geek day. I couldn't take several printed journal articles out of the library and didn't want to spend money copying them. I scanned them into the computer at the library, cropped them, inserted them into my i-locker, and printed the files with a click. While the first article took a couple hours, the next three only took about 45 min. Thanks for the tip. Carolyn
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