For NWPers (and others) who could not attend the 2009 Computers and Writing at UC-Davis, a fairly full archive of audio and video from the sessions is available at iTunes U in the UC-Davis channel. This archive allows you to dip into the rich content of many of the sessions — and since so many sessions followed the relatively common ‘paper presentation’ format common to higher education focused conferences, the recordings give a fairly faithful representation of the official content of the program.
But 2009 might also be the year when a critical mass of attendees experienced the cross-walk of the f2f experience of the conference and the twitterfied experience of the conference at CW09. Several of the blog postings pick up this theme. So in honor of the somewhat addictive nature of twitter and the impact of twitter (or of the addiction, not sure which), it seemed appropriate to bring in a recent posting from Kevin Hodgson, one of the editors of Teaching the New Writing, about twitter. Kevin, who blogs as dogtrax at Kevin’s Meandering Mind, was motivated to serenade our twittering digital companion in song. Follow the link below to listen.
Lyrics
I get up in the morning and I twitter all my dreams
140 characters is just enough for me
Then, each moment of the day becomes a Twitter storm
until the world is at my doorstep and everyone belongs
to
This Twitter space
inside this Twitter place
I’ve got a little bit of smile
on my Twitter face
Take me as a friend
or leave me out cold
I’m gonna keep on Twittering
until the platform gets old
I’m reading all my friends — the ones I haven’t met
from all across the globe, it’s a safety net
We’re putting pressure on Iran — let the China wall fall
let the information flow so we can all crawl to
This Twitter space
inside this Twitter place
I’ve got a little bit of smile
on my Twitter face
Take me as a friend
or leave me out cold
I’m gonna keep on Twittering
until the platform gets old
