{"id":1597,"date":"2016-09-24T09:36:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T15:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2016-09-25T13:21:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T19:21:15","slug":"in-a-city-of-the-future-it-is-difficult-to-concentrate-an-overdue-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1597","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;In a city of the future it is difficult to concentrate&#8221;: An Overdue Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Untitled\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/anterobot\/29602893570\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c3.staticflickr.com\/9\/8355\/29602893570_f840c4b38e.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t bury the <a href=\"http:\/\/grammarist.com\/usage\/lead-lede\/\">lede<\/a>: In January I am joining the <a href=\"https:\/\/ed.stanford.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stanford Graduate School of Education<\/a> as an assistant professor. I am looking forward to\u00a0working with amazing colleagues there and will be sharing more about what my work looks like as I get up to speed in the coming months. Ally and I are in the <del>not-at-all-stressful<\/del> OMGMOSTSTRESSFULPROCESSEVER of selling and looking for and buying a house. Humblebrag: Ally will be managing a library as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/smcl.org\/\">San Mateo County\u00a0Libraries<\/a> system.<\/p>\n<p>I have only <strong>amazing<\/strong> things to say about my experiences at Colorado State University and look forward to continue collaborating with and learning from my colleagues and students. If you are reading this and also on the English Education job market, <em>please<\/em> consider <a href=\"https:\/\/jobs.colostate.edu\/postings\/37430\" target=\"_blank\">applying to join the fantastic faculty at CSU here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, I am continuing to do similar research to what I\u2019ve been exploring on this blog for nearly a decade. The intersection of literacies, gaming, technology, equity, and teaching remain at the heart of the work I do.<\/p>\n<p>Phew, okay, that\u2019s out of the way. As a bit of catch up, I\u2019m going to just share a bunch of links to articles, presentations, and other opportunities you might be interested in below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u2019m writing this from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cune.edu\/about\/conferences-and-camps\/plumcreek\/\">Plum Creek Children&#8217;s Literacy Festival<\/a> in Seward, Nebraska where I\u2019ll be presenting later this afternoon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Next Sunday, I\u2019m thrilled to be co-presenting the opening keynote for the4T Virtual Conference on Digital Writing with my always awesome friend and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Doing-Youth-Participatory-Action-Research-ebook\/dp\/B0171ZQZH8\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1474218267&amp;sr=8-1\">co-author<\/a>, Nicole Mirra. The digital conference looks great (and is FREE!), so take a look <a href=\"http:\/\/www.4tdwvirtualcon.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Three days later, on October 5th, Nicole and I are joining up with (also awesome friend and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncte.org\/journals\/ej\/issues\/v105-2\">co-author<\/a>) Danielle Filipiak to run an <a href=\"http:\/\/dml2016.dmlhub.net\/workshops\/designing-youth-participatory-action-research-pathways\/\">all day workshop on Youth Participatory Action Research<\/a>\u00a0at the Digital Media &amp; Learning Conference.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I have begun editing a column for the Journal for Adolescent and Adult Literacy called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/jaal.564\/full\">Challenging Texts<\/a>.\u201d The <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/jaal.564\/full\">first column<\/a> is accessible online and sets out the stakes for the column over the next two years. If you are interested in reviewing and writing for this column, please get in touch!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u2019m still regularly blogging for DMLcentral, my most recent post was last week\u2019s discussion of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/dmlcentral.net\/compojing-writing-emoji-fun-profit\/\">compojing<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I had a recent article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alan-ya.org\/publications\/the-alan-review\/\">ALAN Review<\/a>\u00a0titled &#8220;Networked Teens and YA Literature: Gossip, Identity, and What Really #matters.&#8221; The article is currently print-only, but please get in touch if you&#8217;d like to take a look.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>My role as the President of the NCTE <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slam.education\/\">Studies on Literacies and Multimedia Assembly (SLAM)<\/a> is coming to an end.\u00a0<em>Please<\/em> consider <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slam.education\/\">joining<\/a> our group and also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slam.education\/\">running<\/a> for a leadership position! (We have awesome, monthly hangouts with some amazing guests. Here&#8217;s our hangout from last week:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SZfYJxslzKY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The next few months remain a bit busy logistically, but I\u2019ll check in a few more times before 2016 wraps and hope to get back into a regular posting schedule soon.<\/p>\n<p>For those curious, this post&#8217;s title quotes Radiohead&#8217;s &#8220;Palo Alto,&#8221; a song I&#8217;ve been thinking about lately that you can hear <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kOuDST1uF20&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=53m4s\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"Untitled\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/anterobot\/29269664904\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/9\/8492\/29269664904_f61cf6fec6_z.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;You don&#8217;t mind if I borrow this, do you?&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>(<em>Psst<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/alternate-reality-games-and-the-cusp-of-digital-gameplay-9781501316258\/\">this<\/a> is not a book.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell people this is awesome:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1597&amp;share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-1597\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1597&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-1597\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1597&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1597\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span>Print<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-1597\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1597&amp;share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\"><span>Pinterest<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1597&amp;share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\"><span>Tumblr<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1597&amp;share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span>Reddit<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-1597\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1597&amp;share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span>LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pocket\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-pocket sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1597&amp;share=pocket\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pocket\"><span>Pocket<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t bury the lede: In January I am joining the Stanford Graduate School of Education as an assistant professor. 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