Behind the Scenes        Head to Head        Postmodern Riff         

I had a neat plan on the syllabus, but because this course was so radically different from anything I have ever done, my ability to read my own performance in the classroom and adjust accordingly was weakened beyond anything I had heretofore experienced. I think maybe this was because this class occurred the first quarter after the comprehensive exams were over, and I went a little overboard with my new found sense of freedom. I was so exited about being able to step outside of my do-what-works-best-with-the-least-amount-of-energy-mindset that I blew up my entire junior composition class in a fit of technological enthusiasm and dove right into the deep end of technologically inspired pedagogy, with predictable results. And yet this has not really discouraged me from wanting to explore the use of computer technology in my writing classroom. So this was one class of eighteen students who didn’t ‘get me.” So what?