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1768	Kathy, and anyone who might care enough to keep reading, it's kind of a long story. However, the story begins in December 1995 when I was hired at CCSN ...	bradley bleck bleckb@...	Oct 2, 2000 3:11 am
1769	Wow--Thanks Brad. You know, I love teaching so much that it's nigh about impossible to imagine leaving it for good, but I can say that the various ...	Kafkaz kafkaz@...	Oct 2, 2000 3:35 am
1770	For the moment, at least, seem to be gone. Hate to even think it since they'll probably show up again, now, but maybe--just maybe--our check finally worked...	Kafkaz kafkaz@...	Oct 2, 2000 3:37 am
1771	The following article from cnn.com, also run as one of the top of the hour stories this morning on CNN's Headline News, ties the inability to use the Internet...	Charlie Lowe cel4145@...	Oct 2, 2000 3:04 pm
1772	whew glad I had a cable modem installed last Thursday. ... Carl ... "What's the use of yearning for Elysian fields when you know you can't get'em, and would...	Carl E. Seiple seiple@...	Oct 2, 2000 5:04 pm
1773	... Hi everyone, I was thinking that as long as you're working on proposals..... you might be interested in two links (Conferences/Workshops and Calls for...	Karen Lunsford klunsfor@...	Oct 3, 2000 3:03 am
1774	What's that you say? You are? Well, you might be interested in the ACE Booth! All you have to do is ask yourself, "Am I a good buddy?" On the Nature of Being a...	rarice@...	Oct 3, 2000 7:23 am
1775	Georgia Southern University is hiring a dean for the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences this year, and I wanted to encourage eligible candidates to...	Angela Crow acrow@...	Oct 3, 2000 2:56 pm
1776	We don't usually spam the lists with Tuesday Cafe announcements*, but I wanted to let people know that tonight's cafe is an opportunity to brainstorm ideas or...	Cindy Wambeam cwambeam@...	Oct 3, 2000 3:51 pm
1777	Is it just me, or is all this alarmism striking anyone else in their cynical-bone. I mean... if 50 million Americans are not being good customers and consumers...	C J Jeney jeney@...	Oct 3, 2000 3:58 pm
1778	... The digitial divide issue does seem to be getting a lot of play lately. And yes, it does seem that much of the current interest in bridging the digital...	Dawn Rodrigues drodrigues@...	Oct 3, 2000 6:40 pm
1779	I agree with much of what Dawn Rodrigues wrote in her last post, but I wanted to exerpt something she wrote and try to take it in a slightly ... I agree with...	Steve Krause skrause@...	Oct 3, 2000 7:24 pm
1780	Thanks for your reaction, Steve. I agree with you fully about how many faculty are not at all interested in developing their own understandings of technology....	Dawn Rodrigues drodrigues@...	Oct 3, 2000 9:05 pm
1781	... I wonder if its a symptom of utter defeat or boundless optimism that I'd actually agree they were pretty cool to learn to put a syllabus online. Gosh, I...	Kafkaz kafkaz@...	Oct 4, 2000 5:29 am
1782	Of course functional illiteracy is a crock as a potentially valid reason for no further hiring, training, etc., which is what it can come down to in specific...	hugh stilley hugitoiv@...	Oct 4, 2000 9:31 am
1783	Interesting. I once had a job teaching basic skills in reading, writing and arithmetic, using the PLATO system, to what were in fact called "functionally...	John McLaughlin johnmc@...	Oct 4, 2000 12:05 pm
1784	On a tangential topic, every semester I have students who not only are computer illiterate, but take pride in being so. The technology has no interest for...	Carl E. Seiple seiple@...	Oct 4, 2000 1:37 pm
1785	I was going to look up some info on literacy in the later middle ages tonight. I'll still do that. In the meantime, while I haven't read the Speculum article...	John Walter walterj@...	Oct 4, 2000 5:11 pm
1786	I think that may be it, John. But somehow the name Greene sticks in my mind -- also the info he's an Oxford don, working in Middle High German. Let me see if I...	John McLaughlin johnmc@...	Oct 4, 2000 10:42 pm
1787	John, As I said, I hadn't come across the article before, so I checked what _Speculum_'s printed in the last 40 years on the subject of literacy. Of the 5...	John Walter walterj@...	Oct 5, 2000 1:42 am
1788	If anyone really cares, according to Harvey Graff in _The Legacies of Literacy._ (Indiana University Press, 1991) states that literacy in pre-sixteenth...	John Walter walterj@...	Oct 5, 2000 1:55 am
1789	Geez, you're good! On the button...! The empire of orality -- not to mention literacy -- is in safe hands tonight. 40 years!! (Doesn't O'Brien O'Keefe work on...	John McLaughlin johnmc@...	Oct 5, 2000 4:59 am
1790	That would correspond with Clanchy's assessments, wouldn't it? I know there's a later publication date for "Memory to Written Record,* but I think that's a...	John McLaughlin johnmc@...	Oct 5, 2000 5:06 am
1791	... Something else I'm wondering, and haven't gotten around to checking out, is the role of women in the spread of literacy. Christine de Pizan can't be as...	John McLaughlin johnmc@...	Oct 5, 2000 5:24 am
1792	Histories aside, what I am concerned about is the sort of thing that Cindy Selfe has been beating a drum about for the last 3 or four years: technological...	skrause@...	Oct 5, 2000 1:04 pm
1793	You've got a couple of good points here, Steve -- the one about definitions of literacy continuing to change, for example (Clanchy is careful to point out that...	John McLaughlin johnmc@...	Oct 5, 2000 1:33 pm
1794	TechRhet's Thursday Night MOO 5 October 2000, 8:15 PM CST TechRhet Loft on Connections This Week: Open Discussion Next Week: The Graduate Research Network...	John Walter walterj@...	Oct 5, 2000 3:59 pm
1795	... We'll ... And from my perspective, since I am teaching Tuesday nights this semester and can't make it to the Tuesday Cafe (unless I bring my whole class,...	Michael Day tb0mxd1@...	Oct 5, 2000 4:07 pm
1796	... Kinda hate to break the news to everyone, but on the other egroups I am on, the adds were placed at the start of messages for about a week or so, but now...	Susan Antlitz seantli@...	Oct 5, 2000 4:33 pm
1797	... Steve, you knocked me briefly out of lurkdom. Students at Lansing Community College still need a lot of help with the technology. We still have substantial...	Dan Holt dholt@...	Oct 5, 2000 4:59 pm

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