I have tried to keep all of the authors we have read in mind while creating this, though most prominently, Paulo Freire, James Paul Gee, Megan Foss, Shirley Heath, and Elizabeth Daley.
Further, as is characteristic of both the internet and Trackton, it is uncharacteristic to say what is already known (or in the case of the internet, what can be known)--I cannot ignore that I know not only that I have an audience (Blogger now tracks the stats of those who visit a blog), but that I know my audience personally; I cannot ignore that I know my audience is familiar with each of the aforementioned authors and and their work. I will spend this space, rather, giving what information is not known.
The Pokemon Facebook event I mentioned may be found here; a similar recent event that calls for changing your profile picture to a cartoon character may be found here.
The main websites I used were Facebook, Plurk, GaiaOnline, Myspace, and Blogspot.
The title of this blog is from Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem of the same name.
The picture in the background for this blog is the same I use for my persona Fuzzcat on plurk, and one I am considering using for my main blog; sometimes, discourses mix in this way.
This is my Gaia avatar--I haven't touched it in a long time. Although GaiaOnline still has a large forum and art community, they've lately been working on a Flash role-playing component, which would make it more on the level with games like WoW that allow more real-time interactions and quests.
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Class is over; but here, through the extension of my various identities, I can continue to integrate these thoughts into future work; here I exist continually, always open to dialogue; here, the writer writes with the possibility, maybe even the hope, of being interrupted.
-R
