Holly Slocum, Electronic Literature Lab

Electronic Literature Lab, WSU-Vancouver • 20th May 2021

"Someone, Somewhere, with Something: The Origins of Figurski"

In 1995, I wrote a 500-word flash fiction about Theodore Streleski, a real-life, perennial Stanford graduate student who notoriously bludgeoned to death his faculty advisor with a hammer in the 1970s. "Streleski at Findhorn on Acid," which imagined Streleski visiting the New Age intentional community of Findhorn, Scotland, while high on LSD, won First Prize in Grain Magazine's 1995 "Short Grain Postcard Story" contest.

EDUCAUSE • 15th February 2021

Learning Space Rating System v3

The Learning Space Rating System (LSRS) provides a set of metrics to assess how well the design of classrooms supports inclusion and enables multiple modalities of learning and teaching.

EDUCAUSE REVIEW • 29th February 2020

Toward Inclusive Learning Spaces: Physiological, Cognitive, and Cultural Inclusion and the Learning Space Rating System

Learning spaces should allow everyone to participate on an equal basis and feel welcome and included. An inclusive learning space design practice, therefore, should address the diverse physiological, cognitive, and cultural needs of learners.

ELO 2019 Proceedings • 15th July 2019

A Little Transmediation Can Be a Dangerous Thing, or What Happened When I Made a Multimedia Poem from an Artist’s Book

Transmediation involves the translation of content from one sign-system (or mode) to another, and the semioticians remind us that modes have different affordances so "the physical form of the literary artifact always affects what the words (and other semiotic components) mean" (Hayles, "Writing Machines," 2002).

ISEA 2015 • 15th August 2015

On "Thirteen Ways of Killing a Scrub-Jay"

(Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art) "Thirteen Ways of Killing a Scrub-Jay" is an online work of electronic literature by the author.

RAW: Reading and Writing New Media ed. by Cheryl E. Ball, James Kalmbach: • 1st April 2010

"How Much is Too Much New Media for the Net Generation?"

(Book chapter) I'm teaching a pilot course emphasizing oral rhetoric and multimedia in a cutting-edge computer classroom in a Stanford University residence complex . . .

EDUCAUSE REVIEW • 1st April 2009

"Signposts of the Revolution? What We Talk about When We Talk about Learning Spaces"

(With Phillip D. Long.) The afternoon sun was like a presence in this room... We could have been anywhere, somewhere enchanted. —Raymond Carver, “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love”

Talking Stick • Vol 26 No 4 • March/April 2009 • 15th March 2009

"The Net Generation on Campus and Online"

Publication of the Association of College and University Housing Officers International (ACUHO-I). "They come bearing laptops and cell phones, ready to tweet and blog their way through the college year. Not sure what they're talking about? Read on . . . ."

(ed.), Residence Life and the New Student Experience • 1st July 2008

"New Students, Emerging Technologies, Virtual Communities, and the College Residential Experience"

Monograph chapter in William J. Zeller, (ed.), Residence Life and the New Student Experience (Monograph No. 5, 3rd ed.). Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition.

The Fictitious Press • 1st September 2005

"Revisiting Rome (Where My Father Died)"

Personal memoir/web essay addressed to my immediate family about revisiting the scene of my father's sudden 1962 death in Rome.

Resource Center or Cyberculture Studies • 15th May 2005

Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency (book review)

Review of Jay David Bolter and Diane Gromala's "Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency."

ED-MEDIA 1999 Conference Proceedingse • 1st July 1999

"Constructive 'Noise in the Channel': Effects of Controversial Forwarded E-mail in a College Residential and Virtual Community"

As part of a case study of electronic community building in a college freshman dorm, discussion list messages were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively.

ED-MEDIA 1999 • 18th June 1999

"Constructive 'Noise in the Channel': Effects of Controversial Forwarded E-mail in a College Residential and Virtual Community"

(Full text of study) Only recently have we had the chance to study the interplay between virtual and face-to-face community in residence-based communities.

McGraw Hill • 15th January 1998

Composing Cyberspace: Identity, Community, and Knowledge in the Electronic Age

A pioneering college composition anthology addressing the social, cultural, political, and educational implications of burgeoning information and communication technologies including classic essays like Julian Dibbell's "A Rape in Cyberspace."

Stanford University Residential Education & Residential Computing • 1st October 1997

"Wired Frosh: A Case Study of Electronic Community Building in a Freshman Dorm"

While "virtual communities" have been studied as separate entities, only recently have we had the chance to observe the social effects of new technologies in face-to-face (f2f) living groups.

The Technology Source (Horizon Project) • 30th September 1997

"The Semi-Virtual Composition Classroom: A Model or Techno-Amphibians"

Shortened version of article originally published in "Notes in the Margin," Program in Writing and Critical Thinking, Stanford University. Republished in Microsoft in Higher Education Case Studies.

Blair Press/Prenctice-Hall • 1st March 1995

Encountering Cultures: Reading and Writing in a Changing World (2nd Edition)

Encountering Cultures is a composition reader that integrates issues of language and culture, domestic cultural diversity, and global cultural diversity with an unprecedented range of readings, authors, and views.

Blair Press/Prenctice-Hall • 1st May 1992

Encountering Cultures: Reading and Writing in a Changing World (1st edition)

First edition of college writing textbook anthology, one of the first to critically engage multiculturalism.

Stanford University • 10th March 1989

(Ed.) "Building a Multiracial, Multicultural University Community"

Final Report of the University Committee on Minority Issues. A landmark study by faculty, staff, and students partly in response to campus activism.

Transfer 50, San Francisco State University • 2nd December 1985

(Ed.) Transfer 50

Commemorative Issue, edited with Faculty Advisor Paul Bailiff, featuring Leonard Gardner, Molly Giles, Anne Rice, Thomas Sanchez, Toni Graham, Stan Rice, Cole Swensen, Diane Wakoski, Frances Mayes, Robert Gluck, Shirley Kaufman, Kim Addonizio, and more.