why haven't i been blogging?

Well, there really is no excuse, but I have been busy with a multitude of other digital-type composing, so maybe the technology gods will go easy on me. I finally uploaded most of my work to drop.io, which seems like a great platform for sharing and collaborating on files up to 100MB for free.

http://drop.io/engagementnarratives_ultimatum
This presentation was created for Feminisms and Rhetorics in East Lansing, Michigan earlier this month.

http://drop.io/tellingmystory_throughtheirs
This was an assignment for CCR 751, Social Histories of Rhetoric with Adam Banks. Adam asked us to compose a digital narrative that describes our research and explains why we have chosen to take up our particular projects.

http://drop.io/socialhistoriesofrhetoric1
http://drop.io/socialhistoriesofrhetoric2
http://drop.io/socialhistoriesofrhetoric3

This is a partial collection of assets discussed by Joel Dinerstein in Swinging the Machine, 2003. It also includes some additional media I compiled to illustrate and expand his arguments.

Check out the handout I created for my discussion of Swinging the Machine for some explanation of the assets I compiled and an overview of Dinerstein's major points.

http://drop.io/conceptin60
I made this last summer at DMAC (Digital Media and Composition). The assignment was to convey a "Concept in 60" using images and sound.

All content has been obtained with permission, is authorized under Creative Commons licensing, or is presented under the terms of fair use for educational purposes.

I'm new to sharing my digital compositions and welcome any feedback about them. I would like to thank everyone who generously contributed to these projects, as well as all the folks who have contributed to my understanding of working in this medium: John Laudun, Barry Ancelet, Keith Dorwick, and the entire DMAC team, especially Cindy Selfe, Scott DeWitt, and Genevieve Critel. All of these great scholars and many more have been instrumental in guiding my sensibilities about fieldwork, research ethics, aesthetics, and more practical concerns like checking your recording levels and your batteries before you capture that perfect narrative, obtaining written consent for collected materials, and (religiously) archiving your work.

Now back to my regularly scheduled programming, which today consists of grading the (brilliant!) work of my writing students.