Dear Diary

I have always been somewhat of a sporadic “diary writer.” Family and friends used to gift me with blank notebooks when they learned that I enjoyed writing, yet I would only write a few entries here and there in each new blank book I received. For whatever...

When I Say Literacy, You Say…

… in all likelihood, a number of different things, all of which might have something to do with “language acquisition,” “the alphabet,” “writing,” or – simply – “words.” I know that prior to my study of digital scholarship, I thought of literacy as...

Code Year, Lesson 2 Part 1

I have a distinct memory of the first day of French 1 in college. I walked in confident that I would succeed. After all, I had been a successful Spanish student in high school; French was a romance language, ergo it wouldn’t be that different. Right? Well, I...

On the Beauty of Tables and Visual Aids

I may have failed to mention that I’m enrolled in this fantastic course on Literacy and Technology through the University Writing Program taught by Professor Rebekka Andersen. This course has been a largely motivating factor for starting this blog and, indeed,...

In Solidarity with SOPA

http://sopastrike.com/ As I hope you’ve noticed at this point, many of your favorite websites are blacked out today: Wikipedia, Google, Reddit, Mozilla, and even WordPress among others. I don’t have much to add to the discussion other than my own concerns...