I just finished reading the collection Teaching Writing with Computers (edited by Takayoshi and Huot). In many respects, I really wish I’d come across some of the articles within before I became a red-pen-handler-of-doom. (OK, actually, in all honesty, I usually swap between pencil and Word’s “Track Changes” when I grade. And I’ve generally set “track changes” to blue when I leave comments. But I digress.) While some of the material in the various essays is outdated, much of the content deals with broad, general suggestions for integrating technology, and not so much specific tool-based ideas. Nevertheless, despite the conglomeration of really cool ideas (e.g., having an outside speaker/specialist “speak” with your class via chat room or discussion board), many were really, really commonsensical. However, especially since I come from an AS perspective, I *do* realize that “common sense” ain’t exactly a universal since it’s constructed. I’m a bit hesitant to say that any of these ideas are “no-brainers.”

Consequently, I continually had to re-analyze my starting points here, especially since I do consider myself to be technologically/digitally literate. And, I’m sure most FYW instructors haven’t had the benefit of learning Flash or C++. So, I decided to try my hand at sarcasm (and the color pink) in creating an e-Teaching how-to manual.

I’m kind of wondering: who would indeed claim the below items to be true? Non-writing instructors? Writing instructors who haven’t read the TWWC essay collection? My mom? The only slightly agreeable one, it seems, is my very first image (behind the cut). Are these images blatantly sarcastic? (Translation: how utterly obvious is it that writing instructors should do the opposite of what these images command? And, if it is obvious, why?)