Writing with Scrivener: A Hopeful Tale of Disappearing Tools,Flatulence, and Word Processing Redemption

There is no writing without technology. Although we are highly aware of writing's mediated nature when asked to learn new writing technologies either as individuals or as a society, we most often ignore these technologies, allowing them to disappear from our consciousness. Not paying attention to our tools can, however, have dangerous consequences. It becomes easy to forget the political, economic, and random forces that influence our choice of technology. Using personal narrative, I explore this tangled relationship between the disappearance of our tools, tool standardization, tool (dis)abilities, and tool design. I tell the story of my four-year-old son's journey to literacy and my discovery of a new type of writing software called Scrivener. Reading the story of Scrivener's development empowered me: I came to see myself as an active participant in the creation of my writing technologies, and I learned to identify when the discomforts of technology should not be ignored. I use these narratives to argue for a posthumanist view of our relationship with technology, a view in which boundaries between humans and technology are blurred, and I offer suggestions on how to adopt a posthumanist perspective toward writing tools in our composition classrooms.     

Interacting with computer technology in secondary schools

In this article I reflect on my teaching and scholarship with computers in secondary schools during the past 20 years. I chart how changing technology and changing expectations for technology shaped my teaching and student learning in the writing centers and classrooms where I have worked.     

独立学院计算机网络课程实验课的探讨

计算机网络技术是二十一世纪最热门技术之一,也是支持未来全球信息基础结构的主要技术之一,为了加快我国信息技术与信息产业的发展,需要大量掌握计算机网络与通信技术的人才。因此计算机网络技术,不仅是从事计算机应用与信息技术的研究人员应该掌握的知识,也是各高校学生必须掌握的一门重要课程,特别是计算机网络技术专业的学生更应该掌握。而该课又是一门实践性比较强的课,在抓好理论课教学的同时,如何抓好实验课?本人从所在独立学院以培养应用型高级人才的培养模式角度出发,根据从教多年及讲授该课经验,提出计算机网络课程实验课管理和教学过程中的三种做法。     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">This Is Not a Fish</Emphasis>: On the Scale and Politics of Infrastructure Design Studies

Interconnected workplace information technologies (information infrastructures) are distributed across user and system types, agendas, locales, and temporal rhythms. The term infrastructuring describes the design of information infrastructure not as a bounded phase but as a continuous collaborative and inherently political process. From the perspective of ethnographers, however, this conceptualization presents the practical challenge of dealing with the political work involved in infrastructuring and in its study. In this paper, I discuss the challenges of infrastructuring activities for ethnographic research. Based on a self-revealing account of my three-year ethnographic study of an oil company’s project to design a platform for subsea environmental monitoring in the Arctic region, I discuss how my framing of infrastructuring was the result of my process of constructing the ethnographic field in my research. I combined four mechanisms to scale my ethnographic method to investigate infrastructuring across heterogeneous dimensions. Drawing on my practical experience, I discuss how my process of constructing the field let me discover richer possibilities for understanding the politics involved in the study of infrastructuring.     

浅谈“任务驱动法”在计算机基础课程教学中的运用

在计算机基础课程教学中采用“任务驱动式”教学方法有利于激发学生的学习兴趣,提高学生的学习效率,本文就如何将“任务驱动式”教学方法融合到实际教学过程中谈了自己的看法。     

OA中职英语教学实践感悟

目前多数中职英语课堂教学效果低下,学生学习英语积极性不高,本人根据中职学生的特点,在英语课堂教学中不断尝试各方法和措施,增添课堂教学的趣味性,提高课堂教学吸引力,盘活课堂教学;以教材为基础,优化教学内容,在课堂教学中适当渗透计算机专业英语知识,力图使英语教学与学生的实际需求相结合,以吸引学生回归英语课堂,从而提高英语课堂教学的效果。     

浅析计算机基础学科的教学评价

教学评价是老师用来衡量和判断课堂教学是否达到教学目标的程度，从而为改进教学提供依据的过程。基于计算机基础学科的特殊性，笔者在课堂教学实践过程中，结合教学评价的理论基础，总结了一些计算机基础课教学评价的有效方法。     

混合学习模式在Photoshop教学中的应用

本文主要描述基于网络平台下的混合学习模式的特点。并谈谈本人把Photoshop课程教学和混合学习教学模式相结合,面向应用,提高学生的自主学习能力,培养学生的信息素质,以达到较好的教学效果。     

混合学习模式在Photoshop教学中的应用

本文主要描述基于网络平台下的混合学习模式的特点。并谈谈本人把Photoshop课程教学和混合学习教学模式相结合,面向应用,提高学生的自主学习能力,培养学生的信息素质,以达到较好的教学效果。     

Reimagining writing program web sites as pedagogical tools

I argue that conversations about the pedagogical applications of web sites and HTML should be extended to include applications of these technologies on the programmatic level. I specifically examine the experience of the Rutgers writing program and the reconception of the writing program web site through a student-centered, content-driven, collaboratively constructed model in terms of Cynthia Selfe’s (1999) notion of critical technological literacy.     

Expert' voice: The BabyUML discipline of programming

I want increased confidence in my programs. I want my own and other people's programs to be more readable. I want a new discipline of programming that augments my thought processes. Therefore, I create and explore a new discipline of programming in my BabyUML laboratory. I select, simplify and twist UML and other languages to demonstrate how they help bridge the gap between me as a programmer and the objects running in my computer The focus is on the run time objects; their structure, their interaction, and their individual behaviors. Trygve Reenskaug is professor emeritus of informatics at the University of Oslo. He has 40 years experience in software engineering research and the development of industrial strength software products. He has extensive teaching and speaking experience including keynotes, talks and tutorials. His firsts include the Autokon system for computer aided design of ships with end user programming language, structured programming, and a data base oriented architecture from 1960; object oriented applications and role (collaboration) modeling from 1973; Model-View-Controller, the world's first reusable object oriented framework, from 1979; OOram role modeling method and tool from 1983. Trygve was a member of the UML Core Team and was a contributor to UML 1.4. The goal of his current research is to create a new, high level discipline of programming that lets us reclaim the mastery of software.     

中职学校电脑美术教学的探讨

电脑美术作为一门新兴的学科,近年来得到了迅速发展,如何能上好电脑美术课是教学过程中需要探讨的重要问题。     

计算机软件教学设计

计算机软件教学是计算机专业技能教学重要组成部分,如何进行教学设计,激发学生学习兴趣,提高教学效果是计算机教学工作者都想解决的问题。根据教学中的探索与实践,重点探讨提高计算机软件教学有效性的教学设计。     

Book Reviews

First, let me quarrel with the title of this text. To reflect the book's true orientation, I feel a better title would be A Beginner's Guide to Fortran 77. I have a few other arguments with the author's approach to his subject matter, some of them quite serious, but these may reflect my bias toward the teaching of Fortran rather than a fundamental error in the author's technique.     

大学计算机网络课程教学研究

随着计算机网络的广泛普及，网络技术人才的需求量在不断增加，高校中的计算机网络课程的教学越来越受到重视。计算机网络本身是一门实践性非常强的课程，因而在讲授计算机网络基础理论的同时要重视开展网络实验教学的作用。本文对计算机网络教学过程中的教学方法进行了初步探索，从教学内容的安排、教学方法和手段的采用、网络实验教学的开展以及课程的期终考核几个角度来探讨如何有效的开展计算机网络课程的教学。     

Tripartite operation sharing with five-qubit Brown state

In this paper I put forward a tripartite quantum operation sharing scheme with a five-qubit entangled state presented by Brown et al. (J Phys A 38:1119, 2005). I confirm the scheme security via analysis, expose its three features and compare my scheme with others from these aspects via discussions. Besides, I reveal the experimental feasibility of the scheme with the current technologies.     

Quantum computing. 3

For part 2, see ibid., September/October (2001). Every now and then surprising new theories appear on the scientific stage that hold the promise of dramatic new technologies. Quantum computing is one of these. The ideas in this field radically change the way we think about computers and computing. in my last two columns, I introduced the theory of quantum computing and presented its basic terminology and notation. In this installment, I wrap up my discussion of the subject by presenting some interesting quantum algorithms and then showing how quantum computing can change the world of cryptography, or the sharing of secrets     

At the edge of my-self

The issue of subjective experience is one which concerns most artists. In my own work this is used to work out the relationship between ‘the self’ and its physical manifestation, ‘the body’. Three works are discussed here: After Image, a series of digitally manipulated photographs which visualise phantoms described by people who have had limbs amputated. This was my first formal collaboration with scientists. ‘I’, a subsequent series of digitally manipulated photographs, made in collaboration with people with congenital disabilities, is concerned with dissolution of the perceived distinction between the ‘normal’, and the ‘other’ (disabled or deformed), body. Lastly, Face Value is an interactive computer installation, made in collaboration with scientist Dr. Alf Linney, and designed to invite its audience to consider the automatic and unconscious judgements each of us makes about character based on (facial) appearance. Despite its dependence on digital technologies, my work remains adamantly physical.     

浅谈当前高校电子商务教育的诸多问题和建议

电子商务专业是一门新兴的专业,当前高校对电子商务的教育还存在许多问题,比如专业课程设置不合理、师资严重缺乏、学生就业难等。我在总结自己多年电子商务教学体会的同时,提出了课程设置改革、校企合作、改变人才培养方向等解决方案。