Brief column on making that MIT move to open sourcing content. Plan. Use your own server. Use your own CMS (wiki). Promote to admin.

A BOOK CROWDSOURCED IN ONE WEEK MAY 21-28, 2010. A little thin. More like an academic magazine than a multigraph.

Be visible, be findable: "But in their cost-benefit calculus they often forget to factor in the hidden costs of publishing in a closed way. The largest hidden cost is the invisibility of what you publish. When you publish somewhere that is behind gates, or in paper only, you are resigning all of that hard work to invisibility in the age of the open web. You may reach a few peers in your field, but you miss out on the broader dissemination of your work, including to potential other fans."

Another self-castigation about academic prose. Yes, good advice. Yes, a good position to take. But, as usual, the sense of academic prose is over-generalized and stereotyped. As here - "Revision requires making choices, something that academic writing allows you to avoid at all costs. Much of what makes that kind of prose so complicated is that nothing gets left out. Writing for a popular audience, in contrast, forces you to figure out what the hell you're trying to say and come right out with it."

So does writing for an academic audience when you respect that audience enough to bring your argument forward - which Hornstein finally nails when she looks at Graff and gets to writing for freshman.

Read Lanham's theory.

I'm trusting his exit strategy is better than his entrance strategy. He's not looking very far down the road - and the students will be short-changed when they enter university. "James Tracy, the headmaster of Cushing Academy, says that he sees books as an "outdated technology," and to that end, he's taken the drastic and expensive step of ridding the school's library of every single one of its books. Replacing the books will be a high tech "learning center," housing three flat screen televisions, laptops, 18 e-readers, and a coffee bar."

Check periodically for seminars and publications.

Davis's account of how he submitted a computer-generated bogus article to an open-access journal, had it accepted, and was asked for $$ to cover publication. "Would a publisher accept a completely nonsensical manuscript if the authors were willing to pay Open Access publication charges?" The incident is mildly interesting, but anyone can spoof a for-profit. More from the Chronicle over here: http://chronicle.com/news/article/6665/publisher-suggests-it-played-along-with-hoax

Wesch. "As we increasingly move toward an environment of instant and infinite information, it becomes less important for students to know, memorize, or recall information, and more important for them to be able to find, sort, analyze, share, discuss, critique, and create information. They need to move from being simply knowledgeable to being knowledge-able."

While well worth reading and citing, there isn't much new in this article. It's solid anthropological principles and understanding applied to teaching and learning.

Sweeping

MLA panel on Twitter with David Parry and others,

Hard not to say ho hum once again. Over-generalizing, and assigning to e-reading the typical fare of too much skimming, etc. Agreed: Close reading of print is a good thing and absolutely necessary in lib ed. Now, can we move on? \\

So let's restrain the digitizing of all liberal-arts classrooms. More than that, given the tidal wave of technology in young people's lives, let's frame a number of classrooms and courses as slow-reading (and slow-writing) spaces. Digital technology has become an imperial force, and it should meet more antagonists. Educators must keep a portion of the undergraduate experience disconnected, unplugged, and logged off.

Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a journal management and publishing system that has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project through its federally funded efforts to expand and improve access to research.

wants to require those students, like others at West Virginia, to submit their writing projects electronically

Turnitin.com is hoping to pay instructors ... to professors at colleges that use the popular service, telling them that if they apply to be on a panel at the conference to talk about plagi

Howard Rheingold's Digital Journalism syllabus in socialtext wiki

Howard Rheingold's Social Media course on socialtext wiki.

Using Twitter to create community in the classroom

Commentary version of the Ithaka Report on Univerisity Publishing paper. Contains the original text of the paper and demos how CommentPress works.

Conversation starter video on how the net / tagging changes how we collect and cateorize information.

Blog monitoring working methods and applications for research and scholarship.

1937 essay, considering principles that are "useful for the formulation of revolutionary demands in the politics of art."

Report on using blogs in pro dev - action research, etc

Angela Kille

a side effect of cut and paste habits? the idea is to slow down and digest the material - but writing by hand

Colin Brooke. Argues for weblogs as a small world system. Touches on social practices. Ties to Will Richardson's Weblog-ed

drawing a distinction that makes blogging different than just posting.

arguing that academic publishing needs major changes.

article on Warks' Gamer Theory. low theory and high theory

TA and faculty blog on teaching comp.