Author: Diane Jakacki
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Call for Papers – RSA: Renaissance Studies and New Technologies Sessions
Renaissance Studies and New Technologies (RSA 2014, 27-29 March; New York, NY) Since 2001, the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) annual meetings have featured panels on new technologies for scholarly research, publishing, and teaching. At the 2014 meeting in New York, we will offer panels on recent research (with 20-minute papers, followed by questions) and…
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Longer than a Tweet, Shorter than a Post
It’s been a strange few months. Flying back last night from an Open Annotation conference I realized that I’ve really struggled with how to represent myself on this site. I’ve used it mainly as vehicle to articulate teaching experiences and some research work – but I’ve been very conscious of treading carefully due to being…
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I’ve avoided writing on this site for months now. There was plenty to write about, but I just couldn’t bring myself to share most of it. The emotional intensity of the last several months left me tired, and sad, and unable to make enough sense of what was going on to post anything.
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Adventures in Digital Rhetoric, part the second
Time for a midterm evaluation of how the course is going and what type of job I’m doing as a teacher. Credit where due: Nirmal Trivedi hepped me to this last spring. He’s very wise. And yes, I wrote “hepped.” On purpose. Deep breath. Here goes.
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All the books and time …
My laundry list of books, articles, and posts grows exponentially and I can’t figure out how to manage it. Althought there’s something romantic about drowning in a sea of books, I think it’s probably wiser if I find ways to do a better job of all the books, articles, and other forms of publication that…