It is hard to believe that another summer has come and gone. Yesterday was the 4th of July and then it was the 3rd of September. So it goes. Should be a fun semester. Volunteered to teach an extra course this fall in exchange for a break in the spring.

I will be teaching for the second time the WRA 453, and upper division course in Grant Writing. This has been a great experience since it has force me to articulate a process we have been doing for a number of years. The other course is one of my favorites, as is often the case with history, AL 805, a graduate course that covers the History of Rhetoric, from the Sophists to the Postmodernists.

Attending the Digital Humanities 2009 conference http://www.mith2.umd.edu/dh09/> The conference runs from June 22-25, 1009 at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.

Gave guest lecture on media and visual literacy in MSU’s IAH 211c Section 004: 1960s and 1970s America in Culture and Politics.  Monday, September 22, 2008.

For the Fall of 08, I will be starting new course in Digital Rhetoric.  Should prove to be interesting and will focus on old and new media, archives, databases, code, viral video, and rhetorical theory.  The course will experiment with using a new social networking application, The Information Habitat, as its learning environment.