A set of quotes to be used as writing prompts to support a presentation given at Educon in January 2009. http://budtheteacher.com/educon

1. Writing 1.0: How the Web Changes Nothing. And Everything. Is All. Bud Hunt [email_address] http://budtheteacher.com/educon

2. “ But districts and schools that have made writing an overarching curricular aim have done so by declaring it the job of all faculty and by providing ongoing professional development focused on writing.” - BWM , (17)

4. “ So if I write something down, some observation—I see something on television that reminds me of something I wanted to say already—the first time I write it, the first time I hear it, it makes an impression. The first time I write it down, it makes a second impression, a deeper path. Every time I look at that piece of paper, until I file it in my file, each time, the path gets a little richer and deeper so that these things are all in there.” - George Carlin

5. “ In order to write, in order to make literature, there must be a close connection with libraries, books, with the Tradition.” – Doris Lessing Nobel Prize in Literature, 2007

6. “ We own a legacy of languages, poems, histories, and it is not one that will ever be exhausted. It is there, always.” - Doris Lessing 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature

7. “ Writing, writers, do not come out of houses without books.” “ How will our lives, our way of thinking, be changed by this internet, which has seduced a whole generation with its inanities so that even quite reasonable people will confess that once they are hooked, it is hard to cut free, and they may find a whole day has passed in blogging etc.” - Doris Lessing Nobel Prize in Literature, 2007

8. "Blogging gives us people, who don’t normally have a voice, a chance to speak and tell everyone our opinion. It makes what we have to say matter. You don’t have to be rich anymore to get your voice out, all you need is an internet connection.” - Shyla , as reported by Clarence Fisher

9. “ The fixity of print is familiar, but that does not make it desirable. The essence of an electronic book may be as fixed as if it were cast in lead, or it may be as volatile as live performance or dinner conversation: electronic writing adapts to our needs, while print adapts to the needs of mass production. If the screen itself seems ephemeral to unaccustomed eyes, that will change as we grow accustomed to its surface.” - Eastgate, Hypertext Now “Electronic Books”

11. "I am myself the subject of my book; it is not reasonable to expect you to waste your leisure on a matter so frivolous and empty.” - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)

12. “ Hyperlinks are adjectives. Or can be.” - Me. Yesterday.

13. “ Writing has to be learned in school very much the same way that it is practiced out of school. This means that the writer has a reason to write, an intended audience, and control of subject and form.” - James Moffett (via BWM , 10)