This weekend, I’m in Detroit at the C&W Conference. I try to make it to this conference every spring (if possible) to catch up on the latest and greatest from other composition instructors across the country. It’s been interesting to see how each panelist and presenter is dealing with Web 2.0 in the classroom: issues such as copyright, Internet research, open-source software, open-authored knowledge, etc. The theme of the conference this year is “Virtual Urbanism.” Earlier today, I listened to a presentation by several scholars titled “Using Digital Technologies to See and Hear Students’ Literacies.” Today at lunch the keynote speaker was Helen Liggett who spoke on “Photographic Occassions and Improbable Alliances to Urban Life”; the talk was her paper she read with a series of slides that represented street photography—my husband Doug would have loved this presentation. In her research, Liggett connects theory and discourse with urban images taken from the street. She used the exhibition Soldier by NY photographer Susan Opton as an example of loaded (no pun intended) discourse. Anyway, that’s the latest. I present my research in the morning. Last year, I presented on using wikis in the technical writing classroom. This year, I’m looking at how I explored students’ relationships to health technologies in the class I taught last semester: Gender, Ethnicity and the Rhetoric of Science and Technology.