Blogging Pedagogy

An important note from the DWRL director:

The Computer Writing & Research Lab has become the Digital Writing & Research Lab. This is the second name change for what began in the late 1980s as the Computer Research Lab, which was founded by Jerry Bump and a handful of graduate student hackers who literally drilled holes in the walls in a crude but successful attempt to wire a lab and a classroom for synchronous online communication. The innovation of the CRL, as John Slatin once defined it, was its pairing of a “computational lab” with a “classroom,” of technological research and development with teaching, making teaching a research activity and granting research a pedagogical investment.

The CRL became the CWRL around 1993, continuing the very same dedication to cutting-edge research and outstanding teaching at the intersection of writing, rhetoric, literature, and technology. Now the CWRL has become the DWRL, a new name for an abiding vision.

On behalf of the whole DWRL team, I invite you to join us for the performative rechristening (cake cutting) at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, October 14, in FAC 8. Open house from 10-3.

Sincerely, Diane Davis, Director

The name change is indicative of the adaptive quality that makes the lab such an interesting and exciting place to be. In addition to cutting cake, we'll unveil new logos, redesigned Web sites, and a new advisory board for Blogging Pedagogy.