Daniel Anderson is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina. He studies new media composing and instructional technology. He is also the Director of the Studio for Instructional Technology and English Studies and the Associate Chair of the Department of English and Comparative Literature.
The PIT Journal
We have also recruited a core group of student editors and developers. We are working on a manifesto, for me a personal credo. I'd like the journal to bring an open source, collaborative mentality to the paper development process. I think of the boiled-down version of the response to the question so often put to the compositional arts: what do you teach? Reading and writing. So the credo is be both reader and writer. Participate by reading, responding, furthering the development of something started by another. If you bring a paper, read a paper. If you read something offer feedback, add a tag, leave your mark.
We're also taking the development of the associated technology to be an opportunity to experiment and teach. We're gathering a group with mixed skill levels. We're investigating and participating in the social and technical networks required to develop the project. We're thinking about how platforms and processes can emerge in terms of teaching approaches. Figuring out how social groups might be configured on- and off-line to participate in the project.
There still is much to do but it looks like we are fast approaching take off velocity.
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