CCCC 2013. Las Vegas, and the Miracle of ADHD: A Video Remix
On my recent journey to the Conference on College Composition and Communication 2013 (CCCC) in Las Vegas, Nevada, I could not stop taking pictures. The short version of my experiences is...
View ArticlePioneer? Exemplar? Innovator!
One of the things I inherited when I was appointed chair of the CCCC Committee on Computers inComposition and Communication (7Cs) in 1999 was a list of suggestions and to-do’s from the committee’s...
View ArticleA Larger WAW Presence at CCCC
We’ve all returned from CCCC with minds full of ideas and phones full of new contacts. This year’s was an excellent conference, with thought-provoking panels, and I came home ready to begin work on...
View ArticleStormy Cs
Le sigh. Once again my proposal has been declined for the Conference on College Composition and Communication. It feels like any time I propose anything on technology—and I mean anything—I’m in. But...
View ArticleGrammar Issues—and Writing
Last week’s Conference on College Composition and Communication in Indianapolis included the Council of Basic Writing (CBW) workshop session, “CBW Talks Back.” As part of this workshop, organized by...
View ArticleOn Giving Thanks
When I was a kid, Halloween was my favorite holiday of the year. My family was living in Tennessee, and our neighborhood was a real neighborly place. No store-bought costumes in those days: we dressed...
View ArticleCCCC Multimodal Student Writing Showcase
Last year, shortly after I returned from 4Cs in Indianapolis, I wrote this post about the Bedford/St, Martin’s Multimodal Student Writing Showcase event, which featured presenters from programs of all...
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I just made my reservations for the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Wow, some lessons learned. The first lesson: reserve rooms early. I couldn’t get into the host hotel or...
View ArticleThe Other March Madness
I’m just back from Tampa and the 2015 CCCC meeting—what I always think of as “the other March Madness.” If I’m counting correctly, this was my 45th Cs, consecutive except for 2012, when I was on a...
View ArticleMultimodal Mondays: Makin’ it Funky at the 4Cs
Today’s guest blogger is Kim Haimes-Korn. It is clear that Multimodal Composition is “alive and well” in the field and in our writing classrooms. I just got back from a great teacher experience at our...
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