ATB General Commands Module

Name

Alan Benson -- your host

Synopsis

Alan Benson -[write project] -[edit text] -[develop web things]

Description

Alan Benson is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric and Composition at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). He is also a technical writer, editor and web developer.

He is currently teaching freshman English courses at UNCG as a full-time gig and working on several web projects in his spare time.

Current projects

Dissertation: Collaborative Composition and Writing Courses: The Virtual Problem of Context. Committee: Dr. Nancy Myers, chair; Dr. Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater; Dr. Kelly Ritter. Anticipated defense May 2012.

Technology advisor, The Anne Finch Digital Archive. Assisting with the development of collation tools, timelines, multimedia presentation, and other technologies for the digital companion to The Works of Anne Finch: A Critical Edition. Project director: Dr. Jennifer Keith.

Volunteer computer administration, Weekday Preschool Center at First Presbyterian Church: Installing Linux and educational programs for local church.

Online Writing Center resource site: Wordpress-based collection of resources, best practices, and models for writing centers developing online consultation. In progress.

tweeter.php: Scripts to automatically update Twitter and Facebook statuses. Available on github.