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The oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has been bothering me so much that I've now uploaded a web page about it at http://edwardpicot.com/bpoil .

- Edward Picot
http://edwardpicot.com - personal website
http://hyperex.co.uk - The Hyperliterature Exchange

Join us for a special Citation Project Workshop at the 2010 Georgia Conference on Information Literacy

Post Conference Workshop
Georgia Conference on Information Literacy
Post Conference Workshop
Coastal Georgia Center
October 2, 2010
1:00 - 4:00 PM
This workshop is free for all registered conference attendees.
Please RSVP to:
Marie Williams, Assistant Program Development Specialist

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David J. Tietge's Rational Rhetoric: The Role of Science in Popular Discourse (Parlor Press) has been named the winner of JAC's Gary A. Olson Award for most outstanding book in rhetorical and cultural theory. -- 26 May 2010.

Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is pleased to announce the 2010 winners of the Best Webtext, John Lovas Memorial Weblog, and TA/Adjunct Awards. Awards were presented at the 2010 Computers and Writing Conference at Purdue University.

Best Webtext Award

Susan H. Delagrange, for "Wunderkammer, Cornell, and the Visual Canon of Arrangement," which appeared in Kairos 13.2

John Lovas Memorial Weblog Award

A tie between Viz (Digital Writing and Research Lab, University of Texas at Austin) and ProfHacker (Chronicle of Higher Education)

TA/Adjunct Awards

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Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is pleased to announce the release of Issue 14.3, a special issue on Rhetoric, Technology, and the Military with guest editors Mike Edwards and Alexis Hart.

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The third in a series of 10-minute videos about the adventures and frustrations of an ordinary (but rather hirsute) General Practitioner. In time for the General Election, Dr Hairy inexplicably takes it upon himself to share his philosophical and political views with the nation - with hilarious results!

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Call for Papers:

Rhetoric/Composition/Play: How Electronic Games Mediate Composition Theory and Practice (and Vice Versa) [Extended Deadline]

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In the last few days, I have noticed what might be called an "explosion" of activity on the forums for my writing class.

With 23 students, these where the statistics:
Thursday: 56 new posts.
Friday: 246 new posts.
Saturday: 100+ new posts.

What leads to a dozen discussion threads being so active? I'm not sure but I am going to explain what I do.

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With all the hooplah over the Transformers movies, it was only a matter of time before a studio (in this case Tunkah Productions) put a Gobots movie in the works. You can see an early trailer for the film here.

Charlie Lowe, always a huge fan of the toys and cartoon series, has managed to land the enviable role of Cy-Kill, the super-cool motorcycle Gobot. Below is a brief interview I conducted with him.

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TECHNOLOGY INNOVATOR AWARD

Deadline for nominations: April 25, 2010

The CCCC Committee on Computers in Composition and Communication will honor an innovator in our community at the 2010 Computers and Writing Conference at Purdue University, and we need your help to identify a person who has pushed our field regarding excellence in teaching, more rigorous scholarship, and deeper levels of service.

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The second in a series of 10-minute puppet-videos chronicling the misadventures and frustrations of an ordinary (but rather hirsute) General Practitioner called Dr Hairy. In this one, Dr Hairy attempts to help a patient of his who has accidentally incurred some private charges - with hilarious results!

To view it on my site, go to http://www.edwardpicot.com/drhairy/privatecharges.mov ; or you can see it on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2gqXN6rhPw .

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Because I do not expect anyone to pay one hundred and eighty of their hard-earned dollars for an academic book, I thought that you might want to let your school's librarian know about this great new book called Design and Implementation of Educational Games, which I co-edited with Diane Wilcox and which is to be released at the end of March or in early April by IGI-Global. if you don't like to read traditional books anymore, an electronic version is also available.

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Make your plans now! We invite proposals for work-in-progress discussions at the 11th annual Graduate Research Network at the 2010 Computers and Writing Conference hosted by Purdue University.

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Hi, everyone. Been awhile since I posted any updates, but a timely email from Charlie concerning the little bit part I've been playing in Stargate Universe sent me back here to see how ol' Kairosnews has been doing. Anyway, I thought you might enjoy a video interview I did recently with R.A. Montgomery, author and publisher of the famous Choose-Your-Own-Adventure series of books for young people. Mr. Montgomery and I talked about many topics related to the books, including his thoughts on education. Enjoy!

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Spatial Praxes: Theories of Space, Place, and Pedagogy, a 2012 summer special issue of Kairos
Guest Editors: Dr. Amy Kimme Hea, Ashley J. Holmes, and Jennifer Haley-Brown

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