Scholarly Life of a Committed Technofile

I’ll be heading off to this year’s 4Cs (Conference on College Composition and Communication) conference in NYC next Tuesday. Instead of taking a pile of work that I should, but never do, get done during the conference, I’m going to focus on the conference (what a concept). Part of this focus comes from the desire to produce multi-modal reports out on what I’m doing/learning/thinking as I go. To help with this I will do the following:

1. Get caught up with grading as best I can, then tell students not to expect much from me until after CCCCs.
2. Actually prepare my presentation in advance so I don’t have to fiddle with it while there.
3. Bring my laptop, camera (takes both photos and video), iPod w/recorder, and cell phone to all events at the conference.
4. Do quick time reporting via twitter.
5. Do more thorough reporting/reflecting via blog.

I told the organizers of the CCCCs Interactive Review (see the 2006 postings) that I would like to participate. I’m still waiting for instructions; however, I’m hoping my blog entries will work for these.

I’ll be honest, I’m excited about the Twitter thing. It was “all the rage” at SXSW this past week, check out:

• Article 1
• Article 2
• Article 3