<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>academia @ revisionspiral.blog-city.com</title><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/</link><description>(academia) </description><copyright>Copyright 2008 revisionspiral.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:25:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>academia @ 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>I&apos;m 39!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/im_39.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/im_39.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:36:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=im%5F39</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Yesterday I turned 39. I&rsquo;m sure I look my age(although with botox, plastic surgery, and airbrushing so common these days, who the hell knows what a 39 year old woman looks like?), but I must say that I don&rsquo;t feel my age at all. I feel str]]></description><category>academia</category><category>health</category><category>kravmaga</category></item><item><title>two and a half announcements</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/two_and_a_half_announcements.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/two_and_a_half_announcements.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 04:05:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=two%5Fand%5Fa%5Fhalf%5Fannouncements</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The first two announcements are very connected, but&nbsp;they still feel like two separate projects at this point. Announcement #1: After 13 years at Red Rocks, I am leaving. I will miss my faculty colleagues and students terribly. It&rsquo;s been a]]></description><category>academia</category><category>writingcenter</category><category>me</category></item><item><title>my commencement speech</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/my_commencement_speech.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/my_commencement_speech.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 03:53:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=my%5Fcommencement%5Fspeech</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Here&#39;s the speech I gave at Saturday&#39;s commencement ceremony: Good morning, and congratulations to the graduates and their family and friends. It&#39;s an honor to be with you today. Some of you are thinking that the very last thing you want]]></description><category>academia</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>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>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>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>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>Bauerlein dismissive (oops, that&apos;s not news)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/bauerlein_dismissive_oops_thats_not_news.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/bauerlein_dismissive_oops_thats_not_news.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:14:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=bauerlein%5Fdismissive%5Foops%5Fthats%5Fnot%5Fnews</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Others&nbsp;have&nbsp;commented&nbsp;far more eloquently than I can on Mark Bauerlein&rsquo;s recent Chronicle article, &ldquo;Stop Pushing Yourself,&rdquo; so rather than trying to be eloquent or address the entirety of Bauerlein&rsquo;s ignorance,]]></description><category>academia</category><category>cccc</category><category>composition</category><category>community_college</category><category>stupidity</category><category>teaching</category></item><item><title>why I teach at a community college by choice</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/why_i_teach_at_a_community_college_by_choice.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/why_i_teach_at_a_community_college_by_choice.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:28:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=why%5Fi%5Fteach%5Fat%5Fa%5Fcommunity%5Fcollege%5Fby%5Fchoice</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Gerald Graff on attitudes at &quot;selective&quot; colleges: When I served on college admissions committees in the 1990s, a phrase that kept coming up was &ldquo;the best students,&rdquo; in comments like &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got to get the best studen]]></description><category>community_college</category><category>academia</category></item><item><title>the week&apos;s highs and lows</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/the_weeks_highs_and_lows.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/the_weeks_highs_and_lows.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:13:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fweeks%5Fhighs%5Fand%5Flows</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Week&rsquo;s high points: Working with a class of Early Childhood Education students on journaling as part of the Tutors without Borders program. Although I&rsquo;ve led the Tutors without Borders program for four years, this is the first time I&rsqu]]></description><category>lily</category><category>me</category><category>teaching</category><category>work</category><category>grammar</category><category>students</category><category>language</category><category>parttimelead</category><category>health</category></item><item><title>bad conference behavior</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/bad_conference_behavior.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/bad_conference_behavior.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:37:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=bad%5Fconference%5Fbehavior</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;m always shocked when I go to professional conferences at how rude people can be. At CIT, audience members were generally attentive, polite, and professionally courteous, but I still saw lots of bad behavior: Cell phones ringing during presen]]></description><category>academia</category><category>conference</category><category>stupidity</category><category>whining</category></item><item><title>Week of Weirdness</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/week_of_weirdness.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/week_of_weirdness.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:41:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=week%5Fof%5Fweirdness</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[With my 20 year high school reunion looming (I&rsquo;m not going), two former high school classmates emailed me. One I was very happy to hear from, but the other one really stumped me. Our friendship ended before high school even started&mdash;and it]]></description><category>academia</category><category>conference</category><category>health</category><category>lily</category><category>me</category><category>parenting</category><category>whining</category><category>work</category></item><item><title>assessing scholarly webtexts</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/assessing_scholarly_webtexts.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/assessing_scholarly_webtexts.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:39:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=assessing%5Fscholarly%5Fwebtexts</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I am in awe of what Allison Brovey Warner has done in her Kairos Webtext &ldquo;Constructing a Tool for Assessing Scholarly Webtexts.&rdquo; I haven&rsquo;t finished working through the whole thing yet, but I appreciate the way Warner has not only id]]></description><category>academia</category><category>composition</category><category>technology</category></item><item><title>too much work</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/too_much_work.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/too_much_work.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=too%5Fmuch%5Fwork</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I wondered a&nbsp;couple weeks ago if this semester was actually busier than others. I think it is. Yesterday I put in 12 hours, today I put in 13, and I am still behind. And every week has been like this since August 20. I think I usually have one o]]></description><category>community_college</category><category>work</category><category>whining</category><category>textbook</category></item><item><title>I love to eavesdrop</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/i_love_to_eavesdrop.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/i_love_to_eavesdrop.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:31:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=i%5Flove%5Fto%5Feavesdrop</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Professing Mama posted yesterday about getting back into reading professional journals after being in a dissertation cocoon.&nbsp;I&rsquo;ve always loved reading professional journals. Maybe because I&rsquo;m in a very small department at a fairly sm]]></description><category>academia</category><category>composition</category></item><item><title>a tale of fair(y) use</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/a_tale_of_fairy_use.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/a_tale_of_fairy_use.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:11:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Ftale%5Fof%5Ffairy%5Fuse</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[YouTube to the rescue again. All your questions about copyright are answered here.]]></description><category>technology</category><category>whatever</category></item><item><title>developing part time instructors</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/developing_part_time_instructors.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/developing_part_time_instructors.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:33:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=developing%5Fpart%5Ftime%5Finstructors</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I am now three weeks into my tenure as &ldquo;Part Time Lead,&rdquo; a very strange title that probably means nothing to anyone outside of Red Rocks Community College. The title refers to the fact that I am the official coordinator (&ldquo;Lead&rdquo]]></description><category>academia</category><category>community_college</category><category>composition</category></item><item><title>a little sun</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/a_little_sun.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/a_little_sun.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:06:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Flittle%5Fsun</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Yesterday was the first day of Work Week, the week of meetings and prep before classes begin. I always find Work Week incredibly frustrating&mdash;many redundant meetings, very little time for working on syllabi and class-related stuff, and an overal]]></description><category>work</category><category>whatever</category></item><item><title>what the heck I&apos;m up to lately</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/what_the_heck_im_up_to_lately.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/what_the_heck_im_up_to_lately.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:34:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=what%5Fthe%5Fheck%5Fim%5Fup%5Fto%5Flately</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Got back from Texas a couple days ago. It was hot and humid, but I managed to avoid the floods.My Carpal Tunnel Sndrome has been rearing its ugly head the last week, providing me with a wonderful excuse to not work on a chapter for an edited collecti]]></description><category>dessert</category><category>food</category><category>health</category><category>me</category><category>textbook</category><category>travel</category><category>whatever</category></item></channel></rss>