“…revolutionary leaders cannot be falsely generous, nor can they manipulate. Whereas the oppressor elites flourish by trampling the people underfoot, the revolutionary leaders can flourish only in communion with the people.”~Paulo Freire

How I long for a time when text ended at the page. When it didn’t follow. Me. Through the streets and the hallways and under the blankets of my bed.~ Anonymous The

Education can benefit from the global network of connections we call the Internet, since the issue of access is less of a concern in thedigital space [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/Journal/files/Hybridity_

Lee Skallerup Bessette and Jesse Stommel [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/Journal/files/Contingency_and_Higher_Education.html#sthash.sHQKzfrw.dpuf] note the real need for bravery in higher education, paying special attention to

As teachers, we sometimes get tired of hearing our own voices. That’s why we show movies, bring in guest speakers, and encourage discussion. Plus, we want to bring in other views in

When faced with a complex, fluid, and potentially uncontrollable situation, I’ve often heard people say, “It’s like herding cats.” I can think of no more complex, variable, and fluid task than

This is the third installment ina three-part series [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/tag/editorial-pedagogy-series]on Editorial Pedagogy, a critical and three-dimensional approach to teaching, editing, and service. Thefirst installment [http://hybridpedagogy.com/Journal/

Too often, rather than inviting First-Year Composition (FYC) students into the disruptive experience of being a writer, we try to shield them inside the safety of the walled garden of neatly ordered paths

“We no longer have to separate our material technologies so radically as we once did from our ‘cognitive strategies’. People-with-bodies participate in activities and practices, such as jointly authoring a multimedia Web document,

“The intellectual is still only an incompletely transformed writer.” ~ Roland Barthes,Writing Degree Zero There could be many epigraphs hailing a discussion of digital writing, many pithy observations about its nature, becoming, qualities,

The act of writing is organic and generative. Ironically, this biological approach to writing is strengthened by digital environments that allow students and teachers to cultivate better compositions. Composing is a demonstration of

Ralph Waldo Emerson, from“The American Scholar” [http://emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm]: > The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so

Consider the tangible violence technology has wrought upon grammar. We rely on automated grammar and spell-check tools in word-processing software (so much that they’ve become a crutch). E-mail shorthand fails to live