Welcome to the archives here at New Literacies, Cultures, and Technologies of Writing. Have a look around.
This blog is the window to the world for Professor Burow-Flak’s New Literacies, Cultures, and Technologies of Writing classes offered by the Department of English at Valparaiso University, and a supplement to our course materials on Blackboard. Right now, our blog is centers on discussion of Steven Johnson’s 2005 book Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter. Posts began as the first assignment in an undergraduate and a graduate section’s discussion board in Blackboard, and have been redrafted before appearing here. Our task: to identify what, whether electronic or not, makes us smarter. We have also just begun to add video and audio files that further our discussion.
For more on our class consensus, see the Introduction to Johnson page, Everything Bad is Good for Who?. Categories, listed to the right of this posting, index postings with subject matter in common. Want to respond to a something? Use the handy comment forms at the bottom of each posting. Don’t forget our archives, also. Here are links to the archives from 2007 and 2008.