<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>comp @ revisionspiral.blog-city.com</title><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/</link><description>(comp) </description><copyright>Copyright 2008 revisionspiral.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:27:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>comp @ 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>R.B.O.C.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/rboc.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/rboc.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 04:54:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=rboc</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Hosted an Obama party today, which was very inspiring. The field organizer who came was incredibly upbeat and positive about the campaign&rsquo;s Colorado strategy. A bunch of people at the party committed to participating in the voter registration d]]></description><category>textbook</category><category>students</category><category>teaching</category><category>places</category><category>dessert</category><category>beer</category><category>photos</category></item><item><title>the rhetoric of uncool (or, FYC is stuck in a past of paper)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/the_rhetoric_of_uncool_or_fyc_is_stuck_in_a_past_of_paper.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/the_rhetoric_of_uncool_or_fyc_is_stuck_in_a_past_of_paper.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:03:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Frhetoric%5Fof%5Funcool%5For%5Ffyc%5Fis%5Fstuck%5Fin%5Fa%5Fpast%5Fof%5Fpaper</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[At the end of his book The Rhetoric of Cool: Composition Studies and New Media, Jeff Rice asks a series of interesting questions: Is writing still the dominance of alphabetic notation, or does writing include imagery as well? Is writing the teaching]]></description><category>academia</category><category>books</category><category>composition</category><category>teaching</category><category>writing</category></item><item><title>RSA report, belated</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/rsa_report_belated.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/rsa_report_belated.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:36:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=rsa%5Freport%5Fbelated</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My first RSA conference was excellent and I will certainly attend again. I went to a number of thought-provoking sessions. One small complaint: some sessions were scheduled for 1 hour and 45 minutes or even two hours. Am I the only one who has a hard]]></description><category>academia</category><category>composition</category><category>conference</category></item><item><title>mental prep for RSA</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/mental_prep_for_rsa.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/mental_prep_for_rsa.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 04:16:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=mental%5Fprep%5Ffor%5Frsa</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Seattle weather for RSA:]]></description><category>conference</category><category>composition</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>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>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>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>last thoughts on fall 2007 and then I&apos;ll move on to spring 2008</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/last_thoughts_on_fall_2007_and_then_ill_move_on_to_spring_2.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/last_thoughts_on_fall_2007_and_then_ill_move_on_to_spring_2.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:06:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=last%5Fthoughts%5Fon%5Ffall%5F2007%5Fand%5Fthen%5Fill%5Fmove%5Fon%5Fto%5Fspring%5F2</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A while back, Joanna asked me how I balanced book orders to the bookstore with the ballot method of choosing readings. I talked to the bookstore manager when book orders were due and told her what I was planning to do. We agreed that I would decide o]]></description><category>books</category><category>composition</category><category>teaching</category></item><item><title>in lieu of blogging</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/in_lieu_of_blogging.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/in_lieu_of_blogging.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:29:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=in%5Flieu%5Fof%5Fblogging</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[While my blogging has been intermittent to nonexistent lately, I have found time to Cook a Thanksgiving dinner for ten people and miraculously have all the food ready at the same time. This is actually impossible, given that I had four items that nee]]></description><category>composition</category><category>food</category><category>me</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>this semester&apos;s classes</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/this_semesters_classes.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/this_semesters_classes.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:13:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=this%5Fsemesters%5Fclasses</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;m not sure how true this is, but I feel like this is the busiest semester beginning I&rsquo;ve had since I started teaching in 1993. I don&rsquo;t know if it&rsquo;s because I&rsquo;ve taken on a new position in the department or what, but I]]></description><category>community_college</category><category>conference</category><category>teaching</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>my writing process</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/my_writing_process.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/my_writing_process.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:38:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=my%5Fwriting%5Fprocess</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I am revising a draft of an article for an edited collection and using my typical writing process. In Word, I did a brain puke (Calvin Trillin&rsquo;s fabulous phrase), which is basically a directed freewrite where I took the proposal I had written f]]></description><category>composition</category><category>me</category><category>writing</category></item><item><title>textbook change?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/textbook_change.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/textbook_change.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 18:24:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=textbook%5Fchange</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I just finished reviewing a textbook manuscript for a publisher. I really enjoy reviewing textbook manuscripts. I admit that I originally began doing them years ago because they pay so much better than teaching does (my hourly rate for reviews is abo]]></description><category>academia</category><category>composition</category><category>teaching</category><category>textbook</category></item><item><title>Why I blog</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/why_i_blog.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/why_i_blog.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 16:21:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=why%5Fi%5Fblog</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Seen at New Kid. &nbsp; 1. It&rsquo;s part of my reflective practice. Blogging about teaching helps me document decisions I&rsquo;ve made about my teaching and changes I&rsquo;ve made in my teaching. I used to document these things in notebooks and o]]></description><category>academia</category><category>teaching</category><category>meme</category></item><item><title>model intro</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/model_intro.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/model_intro.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 05:34:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=model%5Fintro</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I am reading Jared Diamond&rsquo;s Collapse&nbsp;and think I want to use the prologue as an example of a strong introduction in my composition 2 classes in the fall. The introduction does a number of things well, such as outlining the book&rsquo;s ba]]></description><category>composition</category><category>teaching</category><category>books</category></item><item><title>spring semester observations/highlights/random thoughts</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/spring_semester_observationshighlightsrandom_thoughts.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/spring_semester_observationshighlightsrandom_thoughts.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2007 00:33:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=spring%5Fsemester%5Fobservationshighlightsrandom%5Fthoughts</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;ve obviously taken a little blogging hiatus. By the end of the spring semester, my wrists were so sore that I just couldn&rsquo;t type anything that wasn&rsquo;t absolutely necessary. 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