Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and PedagogyKairosnews is an open community of members interested in the intersections of rhetoric and pedagogy with technology. Visitors should register and join in the many discussions by posting comments or creating a blog entry.Kairos PraxisWiki: Call for Collaborators- June 30, 2008 Kairos: the Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy announces a new venue for learning and research, the PraxisWiki. The editors are opening PraxisWiki to graduate courses addressing research in computers and writing. PraxisWiki offers an opportunity for graduate students to engage in online scholarly collaboration with colleagues from other programs and the Kairos Praxis editorial staff.read morehttp://kairosnews.org/kairos-praxiswiki-call-for-collaborators Teaching "Conversational Skills" in Writing- June 19, 2008 I noticed Trent Baston has been writing some interesting opinion pieces for Campus Technology. Yesterday's article was "Learning in the Webiverse: How Do You Grade a Conversation" Here's the teaser: Academics have long talked of the "academic conversation." Now, Web 2.0 has called our bluff. We live in the midst of a non-stop world conversation. But, are conversational skills (in writing) important and, if so, how do we teach them See also these recent articles:read morehttp://kairosnews.org/teaching-conversational-skills-in-writin Firefox 3 released - Firefox 2 bookmarks fix- June 18, 2008 Firefox 3 has just been released to a massive wave of early adopters, and, based on my experience with the betas and now the production version, I can attest to its performance improvements and cool new interface. However, I ran into a problem when installing Firefox 3, wherein all of my Firefox 2 bookmarks were lost. For all the open source folks here, I thought I'd post a link to mozillaZine's solution to the bookmark problem.read morehttp://kairosnews.org/firefox-3-released-firefox-2-bookmarks-f The Puzzle Box, Chapter 5- June 9, 2008 "The mouse did seem to be waiting: instead of scampering into the darkness it held itself almost completely still, except for small attentive movements of its ears and the constant trembling of its whiskers." On the run from Urizen's henchmen, the children undertake a hazardous underground journey. At the bottom of a frozen cavern, they find out more about one of the clue cards. read morehttp://kairosnews.org/the-puzzle-box-chapter-5 |