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"What in the Holiday Inn Express is this?" Has to be one of my favorite @jonathancapehart.bsky.social statements 💯💯💯

Everyone can enjoy an angry taco

Here's my IWAC presentation: Role-Playing with AI: Simulating Real-World Writing Challenges Across the Disciplines. Everything is available from hoki.es/iwac2025. There are slides! a handout! a transcript! a video! B.8 at 5:30 PM Eastern/3:30 PM Mountain. Lory Student Center, Room 322. #iwac25

IWAC 2025: Role-Playing with AI: Simulating Real-World Writing Challenges Across the Disciplines

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Here are the slides and transcript for my #CWPA25 presentation (E session, Room 5): “Resist! Persist! Exist! Finding WPA Spaces Outside the Hierarchies of Academia” » hoki.es/cwpa2025

CWPA 2025: Resist! Persist! Exist! Finding WPA Spaces Outside the Hierarchies of Academia

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My very, unpolished #ATTW25 presentation: bit.ly/4jNc6sl

ATTW2025

Revising Syllabus Policies for Social Justice bit.ly/4jNc6sl Traci Gardner <tengrrl@vt.edu> ATTW, Saturday, June 14, 2025 Hi. I’m Traci Gardner and the title of my presentation today is “Revising Syll...

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For my new career as an editorial cartoonist open.substack.com/pub/tengrrl/...

Why Bother with Constitutional Rights?

After all, why not throw out the Third Amendment next?

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I slept all weekend again. Did anything happen?

The Dogs of War Signal Attack during WWII. Midjourney prompt: a still from a 1940s hollywood black & white movie, with a group of rough-housing stray dogs messaging on their cell phones. In the background, U.S. planes are bombing a German city. The war-weary dogs are controlling the U.S. attack.

Three large dogs scan the sky and message on their cell phones as U.S. war planes attack a European city during WWII

Here are the slides and transcript (in the speaker notes) from my presentation, Crafting a Lasting Impact: Active Learning and Ethical AI Integration in Technical Communication at Southern Regional Composition Conference: tracigardner.github.io/conferences/...

On the Virginia Tech BOV agenda, Mar 24-25 (pg 125): BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the university's Office for Inclusive Strategy and Excellence is hereby dissolved . . . . bov.vt.edu/assets/Mater...

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Found a DEI news article I liked, and then I noticed the author: Elaine Maimon, no wonder. thephiladelphiacitizen.org/were-under-a...

What You Can Do about Federal Funding Freezes at Universities

The Trump administration is enacting federal funding freezing that support the work of universities. dangerous — and what we can do about it

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Saw this NPR article on 'ghost employees': www.npr.org/2025/03/06/g... my mind combined it with employers trying to convince employees that they are making bad choices. RESULT: ghostlighting: when you try to convince your employees you think they are ghosting. [etymology: gaslighting + ghosting]

Why is Elon Musk so obsessed with 'ghost employees'?

When Musk took over Twitter, he launched a payroll audit to root out dead workers getting paid. Now, Musk is launching the same campaign across the federal government.

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I have just sent off my proposal for the Southern Regional Composition Conference: Crafting a Lasting Impact: Active Learning and Ethical AI Integration in Technical Communication. They're due today: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Conference is virtual and free this year!

2025 SRCC CFP Draft.docx

Call for PapersSouthern Regional Composition Virtual Conference 28 March 2025 Theme: Leaving a Legacy in Composition We invite proposals for the fully virtual 2025 Southern Regional Conference o...

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Would you like a winter/spring card? It may be Valentine's, St. Pat's, Mushroom Appreciation Day, or any other random day, but I need your information to get one to you. Share your mailing address in the form: forms.gle/rnscaUuwnm73... I have to actually know you. Not sending cards to randoms.

This excited me as a stairs-challenged person: Google Maps now does a better job of highlighting stairs (2 minute read): 9to5google.com/2024/11/26/g... Good starting place for a writing assignment on recommending ways to increase accessibility on campus/in local communities, etc. #a11y

Google Maps now does a better job of highlighting stairs

A nice quality-of-life improvement for Google Maps on Android and iOS are new stair “callouts” when getting walking directions.

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 2y ago

Important questions: How can I convince websites that I do not live in Richmond or Charlottesville? How can I block this annoying "Would you like local results?" popup? What the devil is a lash appointment? Why won't the damn kids get out of my yard?

Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention

Helen Rottier @helenrottier.bsky.social · 2y ago

Get to know me! 😍 I will post the question and answer in the thread for access.

I’m on Bluesky- get to know me better. 1 Like = 1 Answer with several prompts

My Bluesky Follow/FollowBack evaluation system: Who is this person? Do I know them? Do I know anyone who knows them? Wait, followed by @roxanegay.bsky.social? Say no more. Click. Follow.

If we can go back in time 11 years, I have a WWE & teaching piece for you all: What If We Treated Teachers Like Wrestlers? from Bedford Bits / Macmillan Higher Ed. www.tengrrl.com/blog/2013/03... Not quite was @tomsura.bsky.social asked for, but it's what I have.

What If We Treated Teachers Like Wrestlers?

Originally posted on Bedford Bits Website I confess that I’m a fan of professional wrestling. I watch Raw and SmackDown. I have WWE Magazines on my desk. There’s a WWE Calendar on the w…

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I am awake and online. Let the rhetoric begin!

I need to learn Yiddish expressions. I am shpilkes sounds so much more interesting than I anxious.

It’s Okay to Use AI—and to run the dishwasher twice. Some thoughts this morning, especially pertinent for those of us who battle perfectionism. www.tengrrl.com/blog/2024/07...

It’s Okay to Use AI

I was just thinking about the “Run the dishwasher twice” advice this early morning. I take it to also mean “It’s okay to run the dishwasher twice” when you just don&rs…

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This assignment, by Paul Fyfe, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository: wac.colostate.edu/.../the-term... "This assignment asks students to use an accessible language model to write their term papers—with the goal of fooling the instructor."

White male holding printed sheets of paper and a pencil collaborating with a robot on a term paper

My guide for class groups is (finally) here. I hope to say more later. For now, the goals are to share some transparency about the system and, more importantly, to put Cate Denial's pedagogy of kindness & Bill Hart-Davidson's group support ideas into action. tracigardner.github.io/TechComm/gro...

Short Guide

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Teams, oh, Teams, please hear my screams! You break my heart when'er you start! Just let me add my class in bulk! Oh, Teams, you're mad! You make me sulk! Teams, oh, Teams, you smash my dreams! I fall apart when'er you start!

Great-looking book to support the "why" behind a humane approach to collaboration that focuses on empathy and group support in student groups: Rice-Bailey & Chong's Interpersonal skills for group collaboration : creating high-performance teams in the classroom and the workplace (2023).

Interpersonal Skills for Group Collaboration | Creating High-Performan

This lively and engaging text introduces readers to the core interpersonal and organizational skills needed to effectively collaborate on group projects in the

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