Kairos

A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy

ISSN 1521-2300

• Topoi

  • The Olive Project: An Oral History Project in Multiple Modes

    Erin R. Anderson

    

    This project is devoted to the memory of my grandmother, Olive. It is at once her life story and not a story at all. In a sense it represents the product of an intimate family collaboration and of the close journey we shared in collecting and preserving her oral history. But this project is not a product, nor is it entirely about my grandma, about me, or about the sentiment out of which it emerged. The Olive Project is about process, and at its core it is also about you, about your encounter with it, and about your participation in the ongoing process of composing memory.

  • Techno-velcro to Techno-memoria: Technology, Rhetoric, and Family in the Composition Classroom

    Patricia Freitag Ericsson & Paul Muhlhauser

    

    "Techno-velcro to Techno-memoria" is an intergenerational collection of techno-memories illustrating the impact of techo-literacies on family communication practices. Guests participating in "Techno-velcro to Techno-memoria" add their voices to create a rich resource of techo-rhetorical connections. Our guest-collaborators remember and describe moments where family, technology, and rhetoric have mixed in their lives.

  • How the Internet Saved My Daughter and How Social Media Saved My Family

    Marc C. Santos

    

    This installation is a personal and cathartic engagement with my initial inability to cope with my daughter's cancer. It details events that began in August of 2008 and concluded, in a sense, in February of 2009. I offer it with hopes of helping digitally oriented rhetoric and composition scholars "determin[e] a should for a we" (Patricia Sullivan & James E. Porter, 1997, p. 103). How should we approach pedagogy in the early 21st century? My tentative answer is to approach it less with aims of "constructing knowledge" and more with hopes of "negotiating encounters."

• Praxis

  • Road Trip: A Writer's Exploration of Cyberspace as Literary Space

    Lynda Rutledge Stephenson

    

    The fact that I'm not a professor of professional writing or computer design allows for "Road Trip," with its basic code creation, to be of pedagogical use for students and teachers with limited technological resources. Through a scholarly engagement with creative writing, electronic literature, and design, this writing experiment is an example of the fun that a little, simple creative writing/coding can be for the creative writer.

  • PraxisWiki: Interaction of Author, Audience, and Purpose in Multimodal Texts: Students' Discovery of Their Role as Composer

    Beth Powell, Kara Poe Alexander, Sonya Borton

  • PraxisWiki: MySpace, Facebook, and Multimodal Literacy in the Writing Classroom

    Jennifer Swartz