I don’t know how long this ultra-discounted price will last, but Amazon has just posted the lowest price for the book ($15.84, matching the Barnes & Noble ‘member’ price, and the NYU Press “convention discount.”)
Next month, I begin a series of book-related appearances with April stops in Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, North Carolina and New York. I’ll publish all the details soon–hope to see you there!
Recently:
- Happy Fourth?
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- What I’m Reading Now
- Meet the Trustees, Part 1: Trustees Behind Bars
- They’ll Be Watching You
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- Psst! Forward this Link to Grad Students
- Don’t Miss COCAL VIII
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I really like your book, MB. The “voice” in it is so much more lyrical, reasoned and “researched” than many of your blog postings are.
You are correct to send your blog readers to the whole volume. When you abandon the “shoot from the hip” style, your writings are far more provocative, and most interesting, indeed.
Just one person’s observations - but a person who has, perhaps more than most commentators on your blogs, experienced your more frequent “shoot-first ask-questions-later” retort style.
(Of course, a fellow-sinner is in a good position to recognize a sin, nicht wahr, “fellow-traveler”?)
Thanks, AHA. I think we probably agree on a lot of things, and I’m genuinely glad you like the book. I may not be a very good blogger!
Another thing we agree on, probably, is this, which I’ve copied from your response to LF on the ’storm:
“I replaced the traditional term paper requirement with create-a-Website article concerning your research with all sources, citations, and imported images hyper-linked” (and with the students’ work all on a secure internal campus server to respect copyright limitations) over a decade ago.”
Me too. It’s been an _enormous_ hit with students, and much easier since they now come with Facebook and Myspace literacies.
I’ve been astonished how hard it is (for me at least) to communicate the importance of this shift to other faculty.
Please do let me know where you think I’ve blundered in the book, on the blog or off. Solidarity, M
The NCTE is sponsoring an Institute for 21st Century Literacies this summer:
http://www.ncte.org/profdev/conv/126959.htm
Sounds like high school teachers are now in a place where you and I were over a decade ago — so university faculty should catch up at least in the next ten years, for sure!
The trickle-up theory of articulation in education….
Be well.
You tell me this *AFTER* I bought your book? Damn, there goes my vacation in Cabo …