That’s the most frequent question I get asked in my role as the CSTW (Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing) Digital Media Specialist. Usually, I answer, “I’m a specialist with digital media.”
My wife says this is evasive.
Since she’s so often right, I guess I need to work on this answer. Perhaps a better one is that I work to facilitate better digital media use at CSTW. That means that I contact a host of people and learn various programs to figure out how to make CSTW better able to use digital media. Whether it’s blogs, wikis, Drupal, or open-source software like GIMP (terrible name), NVU, or Picassa, I try them all out and find ways to use them to make the teaching of writing better.
On my way to doing this, I run into any number of fascinating technological sideroads and diversions. This blog is dedicated to discussing some of the larger ones. I hope you’ll enjoy these detours and distractions, and like Fat Albert and the Gang used to say “If [we're] not careful, [we] might even learn something.”
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