Well, I'm looking forward to the conference beginning tomorrow. I was reading Wiring the Writing Center (edited by Eric Hobson) and came across an anecdote in which a writing center director observed a tutor working online with a student who was in another room in the writing center. The student later told the director that he knew he could skip out of the tutorial when he wanted to without seeming rude. Good grief! I think about how instant-message tutoring might reach out to people who need help, but students will inevitably see their own benefits.
I learned that the President of Daedalus Corp. will be at this meeting. This company sells a "suite of collaborative tools for writing and critical thinking." Daedalus's website. I believe they are the only vendors at this conference. Their tool enables class's to work in an online collaborative environment. I am sure the schools use a variety of products from open-source applications to proprietary software.
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