This blog was created in July 2003 in support of a project associated with the USCA Ubiquitous Campus Computing Grant. The blog was modified in April 2004 as part of USCA's 2004 Academic Technology Conference. If you would like to join the discussion, please contact Karl Fornes (karlf@usca.edu).

Thursday, July 03, 2003
Rebecca emailed me that she was able to edit her links relatively easily. She said that a ten-minute introduction to the bloggin' thing would probably be enough to get aegl 101 students started. Although she may be being a bit optimistic, I actually think I can use blogs as the template pages for the student webfolios without spending too much time on the technical side of the whole thing. I think I'm ready to go for it. I'll get started as early as next week.

I've moved the USCA Writing Room blog that I created in April to the Writing Room area of the university server. I am going to ask the consultants who will be working during Summer II 2003 to create their own blogs on the server and play with them a bit. We'll see how that works.

I've decided to go ahead and drop the $35 for Blogger Plus. Let's face it, I can afford it and write it off anyway. It's just the principle of spending money out of my own pocket to do my job is, well, unsettling.
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Tuesday, July 01, 2003
Aaaargh! I've been a-slackin' with the blog thing again, eh? Well, I have a bit of an excuse . . . housepainting. Yep. We have just about finished up painting our house.

I also received Critical Literacy in Action (Ira Shor and Caroline Pari)and picked up Language and the Internet (David Crystal) from the library. The first is for a book chapter I hope to get done over the summer and the second is more specifically directed toward this project. In that spirit, I should mention that my quick glance at Language and the Internet seems to indicate that Crystal is arguing that the languae of the internet, what he calls "Netspeak," is not a "dumbing down" of language nor is it a threat to the development of lanaguage that some claim it is. Rather, it's a new dialectic (?) deserving of study and understanding if we are to understand the role of lanague in general. Humph! Nothing too new there, eh? I know I've heard the term "Netspeak" before I opened this book, and a quick type of the term into Google confirms that it was in use well before the 2001 publication date of the Crystal book. Anyway, I trust the book will have provide some insight.
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