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A Sustainable Culture: John Slatin's Ludic Pedagogy

Albert Rouzie and Ray Watkins discuss John Slatin's approach to pedagogy in the form of a dialog taking place in a MOO.

Yes and Yes-and: Time in the Compshop

Daniel Anderson reflects on his time in the CWRL under John Slatin.

The Challenge of Implementing Organizational Learning and What Organizations Can Learn from It

Mafalda Stasi "shows how the theoretical view of learning as a pervasive, systemic and complex activity taking place in a specific ecology is often challenged by existing assumptions about what learning is and by various constraints aimed at 'streamlining' and reducing complexity in the name of 'organizational optimization.'"

A tribute article in honor of John Slatin.

Rethinking Usability for Web 2.0 and Beyond

William I. Wolff, Katherin Fitzpatrick, and Rene Youssef analyze the applicability of traditional principles of usability in application to Web 2.0 technologies.

A tribute article in honor of John Slatin.

“The Meanesse of Our Witt”: Jacobean Manuscript Blogging in Verse, the Case of the Somerset Scandal

Margaret Downs-Gamble examines the literary dissemination of political scandals by comparing verses from the B. L. Egerton MS. 2230 regarding the Somerset sex scandal of the seventeenth century with the Guido Fawkes Blog and its treatment of the John Prescott sex scandal.

A tribute article in honor of John Slatin.

Response: (Re) Make it New

James Brown responds to the other articles in the 2008 issue of Currents in Electronic Literacy.

The Modernist Journals Project

Robert Scholes recounts the history of the Modernist Journal Project, a database designed to help literary scholars study of the major literary and artistic works produced during the first decades of the twentieth century.

Video Production and Distribution for the Composition and Literature Classroom

Cedrick May discusses the use of video production software in teaching composition and literature.

Literature+

Alan Liu discuses his use of technology, particularly wikis, in teaching literature.

Commons-Based Pedagogies and the Social Turn in Technical Communication

Johndan Johnson-Eilola and Stuart A. Selber "contend that commons-based pedagogies can help technical communication follow out the logic of its social turn."