English 680V: Visual Rhetoric in a Technological Age (Purdue)

So Cat's log detailed the devloping website and the script is being polished for filming. In other happy news, Sarah Robbins "Intellagirl" will be at Purdue the first week of April and we're gonna chill with her and talk about lofty things.

I'm pretty much throwing myself into the Second Life Online Annotated Bibliography right now. It's growing quite large, and I can say with only a bit of ego that it's already the most comphresive site of its nature out there. I've semi-publicized it on some listervs and boards, and am getting great feedback from some of the SL education community. Along with praise comes critique. One guy suggests I stop HTMl coding and use a delicious link roll. Why yes this is easier and more helpful (kinda) to a social networking community, it's not a very visually appealing option. Visual rhetoric wins! I think people will ultimately enjoy the more personal look of our bib and this will make it more successful.

The basic process of this is not simple. Basically I spend many hours every few days exploring Google and Delicious to find new sites to document. The link lists on the sites I find also send me off in new directions to find more material. It takes a lot of time, but a sick part of me enjoys it. I've fallen behind a bit on the actual annotations, but the list of links and categories is growing.

Can't wait to start filming and show you all the movie!