ISSN applied for Sponsored by the Alliance for Computers and Writing EDITOR Mick Doherty ASSISTANT EDITOR Elizabeth Pass MANAGING EDITOR Michael J. Salvo PRODUCTION MANAGER Jason Teague CHIEF COPY EDITOR Amy Hanson LINKS EDITOR Greg Siering NEWS EDITOR Corey W. Wick

This site is best viewed using an HTML 3.0 capable Browser LOGGING ON The Editors' Web IN BOX Letters to Kairos FEATURES The World of the Web NEWS Hypertext and Pedagogy in the News REVIEWS What is What PIXELATED RHETORICS Open Forum LOGGING ON From the Managing Editor by Michael J. Salvo On collaboratory promise, decentralized publication and coverwebs. From the News Editor by Corey Wick Really, isn't everything  about Kairos  "news"? IN BOX Beyond the MLA Handbook: Documenting Sources on the Internet Andrew Harnack and Gene Kleppinger A response to Harnack and Kleppinger Janice Walker COVERWEB Pedagogies in Virtual Spaces: Writing Classes in the MOO Eight hypertext authors accept the call to survey the resources and methods available to teachers of writing in synchronous MOO space. For everyone from beginners to wizards, from K-12 through graduate school, this is a series of reviews, suggestions, and commentary on the present and future(s) of MOO-based writing pedagogies. FEATURES Hypertext And/As Collaboration in the Computer-Facilitated Writing Classroom by Douglas Eyman Hypertext can be used--in nearly any type of computer-assisted class--to allow students to engage in collaborative, socially-constructed composition and meaning-making. Reader as User: Applying Interface Design Techniques to the Web by Karen McGrane Chauss Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute The web is more than simply an electronic display of information; it is an interface. Teachers of writing can learn from research done in studying interface design, as both emphasize the need for a thorough audience analysis to determine the tasks, goals, and needs of the reader or user. Staying Human in the Digital Age: A Guided, Annotated Tour of One Person's Adventures Teaching and Writing in Cyberspace by Lawrence J. Clark Tomball College The ironies of life in the Digital Age--how can we interact more with a machine than with "real" people and still call ourselves "human"? Examine a day in the life of a cyber-teacher who searches for answers to the "big" questions. NEWS InterMOO: Amy Bruckman Corey Wick and Greg Siering of Kairos  swap pixels with MIT's MediaMOO wizard about constructionism, M**Space and how kids learn. Nick and Ted's Excellent IBM E-venture by Nick Carbone and Ted Nellen Carbone and Nellen share ideas, anecdotes and opinions about the IBM Summit on Literacy and Technology. Read their unedited electronic dialogue, complete with links to the Summit and other notable resources. Conference Roundup Hypertext '96 by Stuart Moulthrop Reflections: CCCC and C and W by Doug Eyman, with Bob Whipple Computers and Writing 12 by David Gillete NCTE-Boston by Ted Nellen International Conference on Technology and Education by Susan Lang News Briefs Mother/Millenia Project Seeks to Web the "Story as Story" APA Board Endorses Statement of Computer Support Epiphany Update: Sites and Super-Sites Calls for Participation REVIEWS Stuart Moulthrop's Hegirascope by John Tolva and David Balcom A Note from the Links Editor Christina Haas' Writing Technologies: Studies on the Materiality of Writing by Lee Honeycutt Ron Burnett's Subcultures of Vision: Images, the Media and the Imaginary by Susan Lang PIXELATED RHETORICS Summer 1996 Eric Crump, Bill Hart-Davidson and the team of Amy Hanson and Elizabeth Pass contribute to our editorial board's virtual (Burkean) parlor.