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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:59:45 CST
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- From: Eric Crump <C509379@MIZZOU1.BITNET>
- Subject: WIOLE
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- John & Karen:
-
- Me too, me too. I'm enamored of John's writing intensive online learning
- environment so much that I & a few others wrote up a proposal of a
- similar sort a couple of months ago. We call our proposal simply the
- "Online Writing Center" but I think John's better. "Environment" is
- better than "center." We thrust copies of it at anyone who makes the
- mistake of appearing interested, so if anybody out there is interested,
- don't let it be known unless you want a copy to come zinging at you.
- Even threw a copy at the gov'ment, hoping it would see fit to throw
- some money back at us. Don't have much hope of that happening, but
- we'll keep pressing the issue locally, funding or no (although outside
- funding, even a little bit, sure would get the attention of the local
- administrators, help chip away at the resistance/disinterest you
- mention, Karen).
-
- Who else out there is devising/designing/dreaming about creating new
- online environments at your schools? I know of only one other. Dawn
- Rodrigues and Kathleen Kiefer have written about the evolution of an
- Electronic Writing Center at Colorado State (forthcoming in _Writing
- Centers in Context_ eds Joyce Kinkead and Jeannette Harris). Seems like
- I've heard someone else mention the idea on WCENTER, but can't
- remember who right now.
-
- Maybe we need to form some sort of coalition to work toward breaking
- down resistence and funding qualms at our individual schools. We
- might, as a group, have more credibility than some of us (me, anyway)
- have on our own.
-
- --Eric Crump
-