Last year, during her visit to read in the Poetry@Tech series, I got to speak with poet Patricia Smith. Due to some technical issues, we had to delay posting until now. It was a very fun and fascinating conversation. We talked about multi-modality, teaching, code-switching, and performance; the ridiculousness of… Continue reading
With the design changes coming to TECHStyle, the editorial board has decided to create a guide for potential TECHStyle authors. We’re not changing the overall editorial vision of TECHStyle since its founding: to be an important contributor to academic and public conversations about digital pedagogy and the digital humanities, as… Continue reading
Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellowship Composition, Technical Communication, and Digital Pedagogy The Writing and Communication Program at Georgia Tech seeks recent PhDs in rhetoric, composition, technical communication, literature, film, linguistics, visual rhetoric/design, and related humanities fields for the 2015-2016 Brittain Postdoctoral Fellowship. The fellowship, renewable up to three years, includes… Continue reading
L. Andrew Cooper, a former Britt now teaching at the University of Louisville, has just published a collection of experimental short horror fiction. The collection, Leaping At Thorns, was published by BlackWyrm in September. Please go to landrewcooper.com for more information! Continue reading
Amanda Golden, a 3rd-year Britt, just published an article in the journal Modernism/Modernity. Her article, entitled “John Berryman at Midcentury: Annotating Ezra Pound and Teaching Modernism,” examines Berryman’s editorial and teaching notations during his time at the University of Minnesota in the 1950s and 60s. You can find more information… Continue reading
Greetings upon the advent of the new school year! I’m thrilled to take the helm of TechStyle, and I’d like to announce a couple of changes for the new school year. First of all, we’re inaugurating a new leadership structure that will include “Section Editors,” content editors who are responsible… Continue reading
This weekend I planned class sessions for my “Fictional Life of College” composition course, sent emails, pet my cats, talked with a friend about going to poetry readings, worked on my book at a coffee shop, and talked with my partner about a linguistic theorist. All pretty ordinary for a… Continue reading
Congratulations to Bob Wood, whose recent poetry collection The Awkward Poses of Others launched him into nomination for the 50th Annual Georgia Author of the Year Awards! In addition to actively publishing poetry and scholarship, Bob is a supportive and wise mentor for some Britts. Well done, Bob! Continue reading
We at TECHStyle are proud to present our third episode of the podcast, starring Dr. Rebecca Burnett, the director of the Writing and Communication Program in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication and the Director of the Brittain post-doctoral program, both here at Georgia Tech. This episode is the… Continue reading
We were fans of Star Trek. Sure, we thought: people will travel through space, we’ll meet with beings from other planets, we’ll fly space ships, and for work, we’ll hold flat, thin computers in one hand and tea in the other, the simulated daylight shining ever-so-slightly off our bald pates. … Continue reading
We are pleased to present the second podcast in TechStyle’s podcast series! Our second episode features Colonel Stephen C. Hall, USAF Retired, 1967 Graduate of Georgia Tech, and the namesake of our new home, the Stephen C. Hall Writing and Communication Building, on the Georgia Tech campus. The podcast… Continue reading
I recently read Cathy Davidson’s “Let’s Talk about MOOC (online) Education–And Also About Massively Outdated Traditional Education (MOTEs)” on the HASTAC [the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory] blog. I agree with her argument that talking heads do not a MOOC make (nor do they help digital pedagogy in… Continue reading
Happy New Year and New Semester! My fellow teachers won’t be surprised to hear that I didn’t get a chance to finish another post last semester. But that delay turned into an opportunity to reflect at the end of my first semester teaching in a highly digital environment. What follows… Continue reading
Hi D-Ped folks, this Wednesday, we’ll be discussing using digital and other pedagogical methods to work with ELL students and otherwise defined “at-risk” students in our classes. We’ve provided some very short readings we’d like you to read before Wednesday. Fair warning: we’d prefer that everyone be “devices down,” or… Continue reading
An ongoing series by new Brittain Fellow, Rebecca Weaver I am a new Brittain Fellow in Digital Pedagogy at Georgia Institute of Technology, where I teach a 21st Century version of First-Year Writing. This class focuses on the WOVEN curriculum, a broader curriculum of communication than that of traditional writing… Continue reading
