Getting ready to hit the road again. Logging in through Days Inn's wireless. Yiha. How did I live without wireless before? Inconceivable, eh?
Back from a conference through the National Writing Project, the organization that I think is transforming schools and universities more than any other. I'm ashamed to say that I first found out about the National Writing Project in 2003, when Gatsinzi Basaninyenzi, director of the Alabama A&M University Writing Project, recruited me for the Summer Invitational Institute. I'm not ashamed of being recruited...that was a watershed moment in my teaching career...but that I hadn't yet heard of this organization that incorporated so many of my writing/pedagogical ideals and practices.
Already I'm thinking I need a separate blog just for writing project stuff. Again, this concern with compartmentalization/interweaving in my blogs, writing. That is, I've got not problem writing whatever in my paper journal. But here...I worry that readers need to be directed to their interests. And my whole person needs to have a table of contents, hyperlinks to the various parts...so readers can skip over the uninterestings, go directly to the relevant. I guess a wholistic approach means paying attention to what doesn't interest us, what we avoid. A holistic approach means delayed gratification...being present. Attending to the glitches. As well as racing to the pleasurable. Wow. I'm hoping this will make sense when I read it again.
Time to hit the road.
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