Or visit a newly created page for one of my father's creations, a North Island Marine 21 foot auxiliary cruising sloop.
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 22 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.