I was going to start by saying that digital writing was, for me, a Pandora’s
Box.
But that would not be fair, or true. The jar Pandora opened held the evils of
The idea of publics is central to scholarship. Scholarly pursuits are financed
in part through public purses, and scholarship — in its idealized form, at least
— contributes back to publics. Research. Knowledge. The public
Here’s a little secret: when I started teaching people how to teach online, I
had no clue what I was doing.
It was 1998. I was a graduate student, without extensive computer