Bob Yagelski
I'm very glad to be part of this committee. As Ted indicated, I
had the good fortune to get to know him at an NCTE conference a
few years ago, so Im somewhat familiar with his good work. Like
many of you, I began working with computers in the 1980s. I
taught a high school writing class in a computer lab for the first
time in 86 and 87, though the lab was not networked and it often
felt like a typewriter clinic. In 1991, I joined the faculty at
Purdue and had my first experience teaching writing in a networked
environment. It was then, too, that I became acquainted with
Usenet and the Internet, and my classes have never been the same.
Those first experiences in using computer technologies to teach
literacy began to shape not only my teaching but my scholarly work
as well, and I have been writing about literacy and technology now
for the past several years. Like Dawn, I also work with teachers
to help them incorporate computer technologies into their literacy
curricula. And since coming to SUNY-Albany in 1995, I have been
working toward integrating computer technologies more fully into
the work of the writing center here, which I direct.
Bob Yagelski
Dept. of English
SUNY-Albany