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04/23/2004 Archived Entry: "Talking Board Pedagogy"
How about a talking board pedagogy? Used mostly by teachers to give grades (oh, great ouija, should it be A or F?), this practice can easily be made into a writing assigment.
A Breton-influenced idea, but one which bases itself less on chance and more on William Gibson's idea that voodoo is central to electronic writing, talking board pedagogy can actually be done the night before (sorry, Nancy Sommers and everything I have preached to date). What should my essay be about? Let the letters walk....
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