<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest entries from revisionspiral.blog-city.com</title><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/</link><description></description><copyright>Copyright 2008 revisionspiral.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 04:19:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest entries from revisionspiral.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>conversation with student</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/conversation_with_student.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/conversation_with_student.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 04:19:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=conversation%5Fwith%5Fstudent</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Me: I&rsquo;m sorry, Student, but it looks like you&rsquo;ve failed the course. The zeroes on three assignments and low scores on several others really hurt your point total. Student: Thanks for working with me. I really learned a lot in your class.]]></description><category>students</category></item><item><title>on not commenting on students&apos; final projects</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/on_not_commenting_on_students_final_projects.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/on_not_commenting_on_students_final_projects.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 04:38:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=on%5Fnot%5Fcommenting%5Fon%5Fstudents%5Ffinal%5Fprojects</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The last few years I&rsquo;ve been moving away from writing commentary on student work and moving towards recording audio comments and conferencing. I&rsquo;m making this move for a number of reasons: Students seem more interesting in listening to au]]></description><category>audio_commentary</category><category>composition</category><category>student_work</category><category>teaching</category></item><item><title>how I used blogs in my composition 2 class this semester</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/how_i_used_blogs_in_my_composition_2_class_this_semester.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/how_i_used_blogs_in_my_composition_2_class_this_semester.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 02:32:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=how%5Fi%5Fused%5Fblogs%5Fin%5Fmy%5Fcomposition%5F2%5Fclass%5Fthis%5Fsemester</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Joanna asked me to elaborate on how I used blogs in my comp 2 class. . . My class meets in a regular classroom, rather than a computer lab, but I arranged to have a laptop cart in class everyday (there were three days during the semester when we coul]]></description><category>blogging</category><category>composition</category><category>technology</category><category>teaching</category></item><item><title>notes on spring 2008</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/notes_on_spring_2008.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/notes_on_spring_2008.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 03:25:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=notes%5Fon%5Fspring%5F2008</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[With one and a half weeks of classes left, I&rsquo;m beginning to reflect on this semester&rsquo;s classes and think about changes to make for next semester. I have required my comp I students to keep response logs for four or five years now. Student]]></description><category>reflection</category><category>composition</category><category>students</category><category>teaching</category></item><item><title>Lily notes the details</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/lily_notes_the_details.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/lily_notes_the_details.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 04:21:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=lily%5Fnotes%5Fthe%5Fdetails</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Lily and I were at the mall today and Lily decided to look up a mannequin&rsquo;s dress. She then ran over to me and whispered, &ldquo;Mom, that mannequin is going commando.&rdquo;]]></description><category>lily</category><category>parenting</category></item><item><title>more random thoughts</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/more_random_thoughts.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/more_random_thoughts.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:52:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=more%5Frandom%5Fthoughts</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Today would have been completely average if not for two wonderfully random incidents: A former student made me a fantastic CD of Josh Ritter songs, which I pretty much listened to all day. A great friend who I haven&rsquo;t spoken to in a couple of w]]></description><category>technology</category><category>students</category><category>music</category></item><item><title>R.B.O. the-semester-is-almost-overness</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/rbo_thesemesterisalmostoverness.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/rbo_thesemesterisalmostoverness.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=rbo%5Fthesemesterisalmostoverness</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Lately the random comes more easily to me than the non-random, so here are more random bullets. Lily, knowing that she shouldn&rsquo;t say a curse word, spelled out shit in a conversation the other day, the same way T and I spell things out when we d]]></description><category>academia</category><category>dessert</category><category>film</category><category>lily</category><category>me</category><category>parenting</category><category>places</category><category>conference</category><category>travel</category><category>economics</category></item><item><title>5 things meme</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/5_things_meme.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/5_things_meme.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 04:20:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=5%5Fthings%5Fmeme</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Five things in each of the following categories: 10 years ago, I was: Learning how to meditate. Attacked on the street. Teaching English as an adjunct at RRCC and CCA. Living next door to my two best friends. Wondering if I would eventually get brain]]></description><category>community_college</category><category>environment</category><category>feminism</category><category>food</category><category>giving_back</category><category>health</category><category>lily</category><category>me</category><category>meme</category><category>places</category><category>politics</category><category>teaching</category><category>travel</category><category>wac</category><category>whatever</category></item><item><title>instructors who complain about students (a rant)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/instructors_who_complain_about_students_a_rant.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/instructors_who_complain_about_students_a_rant.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:37:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=instructors%5Fwho%5Fcomplain%5Fabout%5Fstudents%5Fa%5Frant</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I mentioned in one of my Telecoop posts how irritated I become when instructors make disparaging comments about students, and this seems to be the point in the semester when many instructors feel the need to bash students. Oooooh, this makes me mad.]]></description><category>students</category><category>teaching</category><category>whining</category><category>work</category><category>academia</category></item><item><title>Friday&apos;s impossible to do list</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/fridays_impossible_to_do_list.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/fridays_impossible_to_do_list.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:58:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=fridays%5Fimpossible%5Fto%5Fdo%5Flist</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Have coffee and unbelievably delicious cinnamon rolls with a friend. Attend a four hour working lunch for the Honors Program. Have coffee with a former student. Find a really great translation exercise my poetry teacher from ISU, Lucia Getsi, introdu]]></description><category>audio_commentary</category><category>coffee</category><category>gtd</category><category>organizing</category><category>teaching</category><category>technology</category><category>textbook</category></item><item><title>thank you</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/thank_you.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/thank_you.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:41:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=thank%5Fyou</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Someone left this outside my office a couple weeks ago: The accompanying&nbsp;typed note read Liz, This is just a small token of my gratitude, for all the support and education you have given me in the past classes. Anonymous.]]></description><category>students</category><category>teaching</category><category>mystery</category></item><item><title>I stand corrected</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/i_stand_corrected.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/i_stand_corrected.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:58:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=i%5Fstand%5Fcorrected</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Dinner conversation yesterday at Anthony&rsquo;s, a local pizza place: T: The TV, all the people, it&rsquo;s a cacophony in here. Lily: It sure is. Me: Do you even know what a cacophony is? Lily (rolling eyes): Yes, it&rsquo;s a loud and bad sound.]]></description><category>lily</category><category>parenting</category></item><item><title>new file sharing host</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/new_file_sharing_host.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/new_file_sharing_host.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:13:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=new%5Ffile%5Fsharing%5Fhost</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I&#39;m done with MediaFire (too compicated and very unattractive) and moving on to FileDen.]]></description><category>technology</category></item><item><title>Exploring BSG, continued (from April 8)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/exploring_bsg_continued_from_april_8.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/exploring_bsg_continued_from_april_8.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:15:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=exploring%5Fbsg%5Fcontinued%5Ffrom%5Fapril%5F8</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Picking up where I left off: Typically, &ldquo;disability&rdquo; in understood to indicate a lack or absence of something or an abnormality, and further, &ldquo;disability&rdquo; is understood as something that must be &ldquo;fixed,&rdquo; usually by]]></description><category>battlestargalactica</category><category>conference</category></item><item><title>two things done and it&apos;s not even 11</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/two_things_done_and_its_not_even_11.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/two_things_done_and_its_not_even_11.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:57:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=two%5Fthings%5Fdone%5Fand%5Fits%5Fnot%5Feven%5F11</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I posted my Comp 1 students&#39; audio essays. I had hoped to post them a week or so ago, but I was out of file storage space on my blog, which leads me to thing #2 that I got done. . . . I opened a free account with MediaFire, a free file storing/sh]]></description><category>audio_essays</category><category>technology</category><category>student_work</category></item><item><title>R.B.O. Telecoop</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/rbo_telecoop.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/rbo_telecoop.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:21:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=rbo%5Ftelecoop</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Telecoop has officially changed its name to eLearning Consortium of Colorado. The name change was rolled out at lunch today with a video homage to Star Wars that I hope will be posted on the Telecoop, oops, I mean eLCC, Website. Someone at the confer]]></description><category>academia</category><category>composition</category><category>conference</category><category>education</category><category>students</category><category>teaching</category><category>technology</category><category>telecoop</category><category>weather</category><category>places</category><category>elcc</category></item><item><title>dead meat</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/dead_meat.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/dead_meat.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:25:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=dead%5Fmeat</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Seen at Working Blue. 27% &nbsp;Genoa, perhaps you can give me some pointers. Apparently I need them.]]></description><category>meme</category></item><item><title>forecast for Telecoop</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/forecast_for_telecoop.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/forecast_for_telecoop.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:37:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=forecast%5Ffor%5Ftelecoop</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Looks like I&#39;ll be packing layers and my winter coat.]]></description><category>conference</category><category>weather</category><category>telecoop</category><category>travel</category></item><item><title>to do in the next two days</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/to_do_in_the_next_two_days.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/to_do_in_the_next_two_days.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:24:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=to%5Fdo%5Fin%5Fthe%5Fnext%5Ftwo%5Fdays</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The end of the semester is in sight, which is both a good thing (I&rsquo;m tired and would love to get caught up on sleep, not to mention I need to get my garden in order, finish Donald Hall&rsquo;s memoir of life with Jane Kenyon, which I began a mo]]></description><category>academia</category><category>books</category><category>composition</category><category>conference</category><category>gardening</category><category>health</category><category>teaching</category><category>telecoop</category><category>textbook</category></item><item><title>PCA/ACA conference session: Exploring BSG</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/pcaaca_conference_session_exploring_bsg.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/pcaaca_conference_session_exploring_bsg.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:28:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=pcaaca%5Fconference%5Fsession%5Fexploring%5Fbsg</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I had hoped to blog about the PCA/ACA conference sooner, but obviously didn&rsquo;t get to it. In honor of the fourth season of Battlestar Galactica, I am FINALLY going to blog about one session I attended (and I do still plan to blog about some othe]]></description><category>conference</category><category>bsg</category></item><item><title>If you&apos;re lucky enough to be Irish, you&apos;re lucky enough</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/if_youre_lucky_enough_to_be_irish_youre_lucky_enough.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/if_youre_lucky_enough_to_be_irish_youre_lucky_enough.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:09:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=if%5Fyoure%5Flucky%5Fenough%5Fto%5Fbe%5Firish%5Fyoure%5Flucky%5Fenough</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Lily has always taken her sweet time about everything, beginning when she refused to be born on her due date and waited for an extra 15 days to come out. Lately, T and I have been joking with her that she gets her pace from the Irish in her (my mom&r]]></description><category>lily</category></item><item><title>Fixing 4Cs (IMHO)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/fixing_4cs_imho.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/fixing_4cs_imho.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:56:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=fixing%5F4cs%5Fimho</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As I&rsquo;ve blogged before, the 2007 conference was not a happy one for me. I found the experience alienating (with a few notable exceptions&mdash;although I didn&rsquo;t hook up with all of them, I did make contact with a number of other bloggers]]></description><category>academia</category><category>cccc</category><category>composition</category><category>conference</category></item><item><title>six word memoir</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/six_word_memoir.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/six_word_memoir.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:34:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=six%5Fword%5Fmemoir</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I am surrounded by interesting people. Instructions (via Amy): 1. Write your own six word memoir 2. Post it on your blog and include a visual illustration if you&rsquo;d like 3. Link to the person that tagged you in your post and to this original pos]]></description><category>meme</category><category>me</category><category>lily</category></item><item><title>Day 3 in San Francisco</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/day_3_in_san_francisco.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/day_3_in_san_francisco.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:12:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=day%5F3%5Fin%5Fsan%5Ffrancisco</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The conference continues to challenge and invigorate me. I went to three excellent sessions today (I hope to have time to blog about them in the next week), and I am so glad that I decided to take a hiatus from 4Cs. Today&#39;s highlights: Began the]]></description><category>academia</category><category>coffee</category><category>dessert</category><category>conference</category><category>battlestargalactica</category></item><item><title>Day 1 in San Francisco</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/day_1_in_san_francisco.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/day_1_in_san_francisco.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:12:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=day%5F1%5Fin%5Fsan%5Ffrancisco</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Arrived in San Francisco around lunch time for the Popular Culture Association/American Studies Association Joint Conference, which begins tomorrow. Travitt and Lily are with me, and Travitt and I are considering this trip sort of a 16th anniversary]]></description><category>conference</category><category>travel</category></item></channel></rss>