Instant messaging is a powerful tool for quick communication and connection, and using IM, people grow diverse and context-sensitive forms of shorthand, or "information compression." It can also provide rehearsal in/on/around a particular idiom. Using IM in the context of a class, as we've already seen, can help us quickly weave ideas together to form new ones. You will be forming "clusters" to work together on collaborative assignments, so I'm thinking that, maybe in the third week, we ought to do another round with the IM. Share links, talk about projects in terms of interest and feasibility given our constraints (15 week semester), post the script to the wiki.
It seems fair to say that rhythm is not so much a previously determined goal or pre-set metrical count as something that must emerge in time. Caitlyn pointed out the different rhythms that can emerge when we volley text in chat clients. At passionate users,
computer programmer and programming instructor Kathy Sierra and software developer Dan Russell
argue the same.
Considering the effects: most of us do not stare at a blank screen when trying to write an IM, while many of us do exactly that while trying to write a "paper". Letting themes emerge, and then tuning them towards the particular idiom or audience, can we use IM and wiki to write "papers?" How does a "paper" audience differ from an "IM" audience, even when they are the same person(s)?
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