Visit my mother's home page!
She's Rosemary Day, the well known Rhode Island potter and clay artist.
Around the time I started writing poetry I was also writing programs that ran on punch cards. The program results printed out on a teletypewriter that vibrated enough to carry it across the room, just as the rumbling of my trusty Olivetti manual typewriter would periodically send a load of books, papers, and assorted junk crashing to the floor.
I did not become reacquainted with a computer for ten years, when, while putting together a draft of a semester paper at Berkeley, I threw up my hands in disgust at the mess of scotch tape and ink-smeared paper scraps before me. "Rent a Macintosh," someone said, and that was it. Before long I was programming sentence revision software in HyperCard, and leading student discussions on sentence revision in a computer classroom with an overhead projector and LCD panel. Soon thereafter, I began working for the U.C. Berkeley Instructional Technology Program as coordinator of the Writing Focus Group. Since then, I have been deeply involved in research on computer-aided writing instruction, networked classroom collaboration, and computer mediated communication in general.
My BA is in English from Dartmouth
Collegeand my MA is in English from The
University of Wyoming.
My Ph.D. is in Rhetoric, specifically intercultural rhetoric, from the
University of California, Berkeley. I have
been teaching for 17 years, but I have also worked as sailing
instructor, cook, USFS timber stand examiner, salmon and halibut
boat deckhand, and educational technology consultant. I spent four
years teaching at Osaka and Kobe universities in Japan. To relax, I
play piano or go out hiking.
In about 1994, I started playing tenor and bass drum with a local drum and bugle corps known as the Seventh Cavalry. We dress in authentic 19th century costume and march in the biggest parades in the Black Hills.