tengrrl
@tengrrl.com
poodle wrangler, card maker, lister, teacher, writer, designer, disabled, pedagogical troublemaker (she/her)
"What in the Holiday Inn Express is this?" Has to be one of my favorite @jonathancapehart.bsky.social statements 💯💯💯
August 9, 2025 at 6:51 AM
"What in the Holiday Inn Express is this?" Has to be one of my favorite @jonathancapehart.bsky.social statements 💯💯💯
Everyone can enjoy an angry taco
August 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Everyone can enjoy an angry taco
Here's my IWAC presentation: Role-Playing with AI: Simulating Real-World Writing Challenges Across the Disciplines. Everything is available from hoki.es/iwac2025. There are slides! a handout! a transcript! a video! B.8 at 5:30 PM Eastern/3:30 PM Mountain. Lory Student Center, Room 322. #iwac25
IWAC 2025: Role-Playing with AI: Simulating Real-World Writing Challenges Across the Disciplines
hoki.es
July 17, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Here's my IWAC presentation: Role-Playing with AI: Simulating Real-World Writing Challenges Across the Disciplines. Everything is available from hoki.es/iwac2025. There are slides! a handout! a transcript! a video! B.8 at 5:30 PM Eastern/3:30 PM Mountain. Lory Student Center, Room 322. #iwac25
Here are the slides and transcript for my #CWPA25 presentation (E session, Room 5): “Resist! Persist! Exist! Finding WPA Spaces Outside the Hierarchies of Academia” » hoki.es/cwpa2025
CWPA 2025: Resist! Persist! Exist! Finding WPA Spaces Outside the Hierarchies of Academia
hoki.es
July 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Here are the slides and transcript for my #CWPA25 presentation (E session, Room 5): “Resist! Persist! Exist! Finding WPA Spaces Outside the Hierarchies of Academia” » hoki.es/cwpa2025
My very, unpolished #ATTW25 presentation: bit.ly/4jNc6sl
ATTW2025
Revising Syllabus Policies for Social Justice bit.ly/4jNc6sl Traci Gardner <tengrrl@vt.edu> ATTW, Saturday, June 14, 2025 Hi. I’m Traci Gardner and the title of my presentation today is “Revising Syll...
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June 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
My very, unpolished #ATTW25 presentation: bit.ly/4jNc6sl
For my new career as an editorial cartoonist open.substack.com/pub/tengrrl/...
Why Bother with Constitutional Rights?
After all, why not throw out the Third Amendment next?
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June 13, 2025 at 9:07 AM
For my new career as an editorial cartoonist open.substack.com/pub/tengrrl/...
I slept all weekend again. Did anything happen?
April 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I slept all weekend again. Did anything happen?
The Dogs of War Signal Attack during WWII. Midjourney prompt: a still from a 1940s hollywood black & white movie, with a group of rough-housing stray dogs messaging on their cell phones. In the background, U.S. planes are bombing a German city. The war-weary dogs are controlling the U.S. attack.
March 29, 2025 at 4:49 AM
The Dogs of War Signal Attack during WWII. Midjourney prompt: a still from a 1940s hollywood black & white movie, with a group of rough-housing stray dogs messaging on their cell phones. In the background, U.S. planes are bombing a German city. The war-weary dogs are controlling the U.S. attack.
Here are the slides and transcript (in the speaker notes) from my presentation, Crafting a Lasting Impact: Active Learning and Ethical AI Integration in Technical Communication at Southern Regional Composition Conference: tracigardner.github.io/conferences/...
March 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Here are the slides and transcript (in the speaker notes) from my presentation, Crafting a Lasting Impact: Active Learning and Ethical AI Integration in Technical Communication at Southern Regional Composition Conference: tracigardner.github.io/conferences/...
On the Virginia Tech BOV agenda, Mar 24-25 (pg 125): BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the university's Office for Inclusive Strategy and Excellence is hereby dissolved . . . . bov.vt.edu/assets/Mater...
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March 18, 2025 at 5:24 AM
On the Virginia Tech BOV agenda, Mar 24-25 (pg 125): BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the university's Office for Inclusive Strategy and Excellence is hereby dissolved . . . . bov.vt.edu/assets/Mater...
Found a DEI news article I liked, and then I noticed the author: Elaine Maimon, no wonder. thephiladelphiacitizen.org/were-under-a...
What You Can Do about Federal Funding Freezes at Universities
The Trump administration is enacting federal funding freezing that support the work of universities. dangerous — and what we can do about it
thephiladelphiacitizen.org
March 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Found a DEI news article I liked, and then I noticed the author: Elaine Maimon, no wonder. thephiladelphiacitizen.org/were-under-a...
Saw this NPR article on 'ghost employees': www.npr.org/2025/03/06/g... my mind combined it with employers trying to convince employees that they are making bad choices. RESULT: ghostlighting: when you try to convince your employees you think they are ghosting. [etymology: gaslighting + ghosting]
Why is Elon Musk so obsessed with 'ghost employees'?
When Musk took over Twitter, he launched a payroll audit to root out dead workers getting paid. Now, Musk is launching the same campaign across the federal government.
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March 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Saw this NPR article on 'ghost employees': www.npr.org/2025/03/06/g... my mind combined it with employers trying to convince employees that they are making bad choices. RESULT: ghostlighting: when you try to convince your employees you think they are ghosting. [etymology: gaslighting + ghosting]
I have just sent off my proposal for the Southern Regional Composition Conference: Crafting a Lasting Impact: Active Learning and Ethical AI Integration in Technical Communication. They're due today: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Conference is virtual and free this year!
2025 SRCC CFP Draft.docx
Call for Papers Southern Regional Composition Virtual Conference 28 March 2025 Theme: Leaving a Legacy in Composition We invite proposals for the fully virtual 2025 Southern Regional Conference o...
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January 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I have just sent off my proposal for the Southern Regional Composition Conference: Crafting a Lasting Impact: Active Learning and Ethical AI Integration in Technical Communication. They're due today: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Conference is virtual and free this year!
Would you like a winter/spring card? It may be Valentine's, St. Pat's, Mushroom Appreciation Day, or any other random day, but I need your information to get one to you. Share your mailing address in the form: forms.gle/rnscaUuwnm73... I have to actually know you. Not sending cards to randoms.
January 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Would you like a winter/spring card? It may be Valentine's, St. Pat's, Mushroom Appreciation Day, or any other random day, but I need your information to get one to you. Share your mailing address in the form: forms.gle/rnscaUuwnm73... I have to actually know you. Not sending cards to randoms.
This excited me as a stairs-challenged person: Google Maps now does a better job of highlighting stairs (2 minute read): 9to5google.com/2024/11/26/g...
Good starting place for a writing assignment on recommending ways to increase accessibility on campus/in local communities, etc. #a11y
Good starting place for a writing assignment on recommending ways to increase accessibility on campus/in local communities, etc. #a11y
Google Maps now does a better job of highlighting stairs
A nice quality-of-life improvement for Google Maps on Android and iOS are new stair “callouts” when getting walking directions.
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November 27, 2024 at 1:16 PM
This excited me as a stairs-challenged person: Google Maps now does a better job of highlighting stairs (2 minute read): 9to5google.com/2024/11/26/g...
Good starting place for a writing assignment on recommending ways to increase accessibility on campus/in local communities, etc. #a11y
Good starting place for a writing assignment on recommending ways to increase accessibility on campus/in local communities, etc. #a11y
Important questions: How can I convince websites that I do not live in Richmond or Charlottesville? How can I block this annoying "Would you like local results?" popup? What the devil is a lash appointment? Why won't the damn kids get out of my yard?
November 27, 2024 at 9:55 AM
Important questions: How can I convince websites that I do not live in Richmond or Charlottesville? How can I block this annoying "Would you like local results?" popup? What the devil is a lash appointment? Why won't the damn kids get out of my yard?
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Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention
November 26, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention
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Get to know me! 😍 I will post the question and answer in the thread for access.
November 27, 2024 at 12:58 AM
Get to know me! 😍 I will post the question and answer in the thread for access.
My Bluesky Follow/FollowBack evaluation system: Who is this person? Do I know them? Do I know anyone who knows them? Wait, followed by @roxanegay.bsky.social? Say no more. Click. Follow.
November 27, 2024 at 9:29 AM
My Bluesky Follow/FollowBack evaluation system: Who is this person? Do I know them? Do I know anyone who knows them? Wait, followed by @roxanegay.bsky.social? Say no more. Click. Follow.
If we can go back in time 11 years, I have a WWE & teaching piece for you all: What If We Treated Teachers Like Wrestlers? from Bedford Bits / Macmillan Higher Ed. www.tengrrl.com/blog/2013/03... Not quite was @tomsura.bsky.social asked for, but it's what I have.
What If We Treated Teachers Like Wrestlers?
Originally posted on Bedford Bits Website I confess that I’m a fan of professional wrestling. I watch Raw and SmackDown. I have WWE Magazines on my desk. There’s a WWE Calendar on the w…
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November 20, 2024 at 2:55 PM
If we can go back in time 11 years, I have a WWE & teaching piece for you all: What If We Treated Teachers Like Wrestlers? from Bedford Bits / Macmillan Higher Ed. www.tengrrl.com/blog/2013/03... Not quite was @tomsura.bsky.social asked for, but it's what I have.
I am awake and online. Let the rhetoric begin!
November 20, 2024 at 11:17 AM
I am awake and online. Let the rhetoric begin!
I need to learn Yiddish expressions. I am shpilkes sounds so much more interesting than I anxious.
November 16, 2024 at 11:09 AM
I need to learn Yiddish expressions. I am shpilkes sounds so much more interesting than I anxious.
It’s Okay to Use AI—and to run the dishwasher twice. Some thoughts this morning, especially pertinent for those of us who battle perfectionism. www.tengrrl.com/blog/2024/07...
It’s Okay to Use AI
I was just thinking about the “Run the dishwasher twice” advice this early morning. I take it to also mean “It’s okay to run the dishwasher twice” when you just don&rs…
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July 27, 2024 at 12:00 PM
It’s Okay to Use AI—and to run the dishwasher twice. Some thoughts this morning, especially pertinent for those of us who battle perfectionism. www.tengrrl.com/blog/2024/07...
This assignment, by Paul Fyfe, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository: wac.colostate.edu/.../the-term...
"This assignment asks students to use an accessible language model to write their term papers—with the goal of fooling the instructor."
"This assignment asks students to use an accessible language model to write their term papers—with the goal of fooling the instructor."
June 18, 2024 at 5:38 PM
This assignment, by Paul Fyfe, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository: wac.colostate.edu/.../the-term...
"This assignment asks students to use an accessible language model to write their term papers—with the goal of fooling the instructor."
"This assignment asks students to use an accessible language model to write their term papers—with the goal of fooling the instructor."
My guide for class groups is (finally) here. I hope to say more later. For now, the goals are to share some transparency about the system and, more importantly, to put Cate Denial's pedagogy of kindness & Bill Hart-Davidson's group support ideas into action. tracigardner.github.io/TechComm/gro...
Short Guide
tracigardner.github.io
January 29, 2024 at 2:21 PM
My guide for class groups is (finally) here. I hope to say more later. For now, the goals are to share some transparency about the system and, more importantly, to put Cate Denial's pedagogy of kindness & Bill Hart-Davidson's group support ideas into action. tracigardner.github.io/TechComm/gro...