Submitted by Viola.Lasmana on Jan 28, 2010, 10:21 PM

I was recently made aware of Andrea Lunsford (PI of 

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jan 17, 2010, 07:58 AM

A research paper is an end product.  A blog is a process.  Substituting one for the other in every class would be as ridiculous as the current one-size-fits-all-requirements of a conventional humanities course.   However, in "This Is Your Brain on the Internet" we are postulating a new method of collaborative, process-oriented, associational, iterative thinking based on the original architecture, as invented by Tim Berners-Lee, of the World Wide Web, the open end-to-end principle architecture that not only invites participation but has grown because of it.  In that rubric, in that world, in that class, in the great battle of Blogging vs Research Paper, blogging wins by a knock-out.  It's not even a close call.  I'm calling the fight right now, in round one.  In "This Is Your Brain on the Internet," blogging rules.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Dec 27, 2009, 07:32 AM

Just because thnking is continuous in the Search Decade, doesn't mean that it should not be attributed.   In fact, as every good English teacher knows, in the era of search, plagiarism is very, very easy to do---but even easier to find! Which leads me to a final point, since every culture has a different limit on what it defines as "plagiarism, " do we think the American English Teacher definition will change in this digital era of continuous, contiguous, search-driven associational thinking?

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Sep 21, 2009, 07:22 AM

In a study of the same set of students, someone who has made her career judging writing uses her assessment skills, experience, and tools to pronounce "improvement." The same kinds of rigor need to be applied to other groups too.

Submitted by jonippolito on Apr 09, 2009, 12:24 PM
Academia's goal may be the free exchange of ideas, but up to now many universities have been wary--if not downright dismissive--of their professors using the Internet and other digital media to supercharge that exchange. Yet in a signal that digital scholarship is the future, the latest issue of MIT's Leonardo magazine showcases the recently approved academic guidelines of the University of Maine's New Media Department as a model for other universities to consider.

Submitted by whitneyt on Feb 25, 2009, 11:00 PM

HASTAC III.  ?Traversing Digital Boundaries.?
This blog is part of a series of blogs leading up to the third annual HASTAC conference, which will be held April 19-21, 2009, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the theme ?Traversing Digital Boundaries.? As the theme suggests, the gathering will focus on the exploration of new territory and on work that crosses, manipulates, or simply ignores traditional boundaries. The conference program will include presentations of research, performances, technology demonstrations, posters, panel discussions, and ?virtual? participation via telepresence technology.  For more information, visit http://www.chass.uiuc.edu/Index/Entries/2009/1/26_HASTAC_III.html or contact HASTAC3@ncsa.uiuc.edu.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jan 22, 2009, 05:36 AM
From Richard Miller and Paul Hammond:  "For those interested in the discussion of how Web 2.0 technology is transforming the acts
of reading and writing, we invite you to check out "This is How We Dream" at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHvoBPjhsBA"

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Dec 18, 2008, 08:16 AM
If I had a student write a book review based on the first quarter of a book, I would get all scowly and scoldy and pedagogical and decry the practice.  Yes.  One quarter way through Malcolm Gladwell's new bestseller Outliers:  The Story of Success, I am going to issue a little encomium.  But that, after all, is the beauty of blogging.  You say what is on your mind now.  And then later you can recant, backtrack, or even go back in and edit.  Time as the blogger's eternal present.  So here goes.  Why I heart Malcolm Gladwell.  And, indeed, I do . . .

Submitted by lirani on Oct 07, 2008, 05:33 PM

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Sep 13, 2008, 04:51 PM

After the close of the first Digital Media and Learning Competition, I wrote a number of posts discussing ways to make one's applications as competitive as possible.  Here's a reblog of one of those posts, called "Writing to Win."

http://www.hastac.org/node/1237