Craig Stroupe | Assistant Professor | Department of Composition | 1201 Ordean Court # 420 | University of Minnesota Duluth | Duluth, MN 55812 | 218-726-6249 | fax 218-726-6882 | cstroupe@d.umn.edu
At
a dinner for a famous Visiting Author...,
the guest of honor, who was sitting next to me, asked what I did on
campus. I rattled on briefly about “advising faculty” and
“online pedagogy.”
Listening carefully, the Visiting Author’s eyes cleared after a moment. She pulled back from me slightly as if to get a better look and said, “You mean distance education?"—as if I had been struggling to find a euphemistic way of explaining that I handled the campus’s medical waste."
— from "Making Distance Presence: The Compositional Voice in Online Learning" published in Computers and Composition (September 2003) More on my scholarship....
Mindset List 2006
As a reality check for college teachers each fall, Beloit College publishes "Mindset List" describing the lived world as seen through the experiences of students entering college. For this year's entering class of 2010, for instance, Billy Carter, Lucille Ball, Gilda Radner, Billy Martin, Andy Gibb, and Secretariat have always been dead. More...
Jill Walker's blog from the University of Bergen (archived 9/1/06)
The blog Writing and the Digital Life from De Montford University Leicester, Bedford.
Students in my classes are currently working on two projects:
In "Web Design and Digital Culture" the Glocalization Site
In "New Media Writing," the online Parody (Facade).
Most
of us can still remember the sounds of drills grinding and rattling
through cinderblock walls when crews first installed Ethernet cables
in faculty office buildings.
Did that racket signal the first breaching of what Gerald Graff has called the "systematic non-relation" among disciplines, which keeps the university from realizing its social and intellectual mission, or were we hearing only stop-gap dental work near the end of the century to keep the old university from losing its teeth altogether?"
— from "Technologizing
the Conflicts: Graff and the Web" in Pedagogy. More on my scholarship.