>>Claire: So I've been thinking lately... Oh my name is Claire LaMonica, and I've been thinking lately about how much writing and technology have been intertwined for me in my life. And I don't consider myself a really highly technologically proficient person, but one of my earliest writing memories is that I had been watching my mother type something. And I really really wanted to use the typewriter, and she told me that if I wrote a poem, that because I was always writing little poems. And she said "If you write a good poem, then I will let you type it on the typewriter." And I must have been about 7 or 8, so I hustled off to my room and I wrote this poem about a snowman because it was winter time. And I took it downstairs to my mom and I said "I've written a good poem! Can I use the typewriter?" and she said Ok. So I took my handwritten poem and I went up and I put it next to the typewriter and I typed out my poem. And it was of course, just you know, a mess, because I didn't know how to use a typewriter but I had a great time. But then as I got older I kept writing but I was always writing by hand. Until I got to High School when I was on the school newspaper. We would still write things by hand and then we would type them. And then I got to college and I started taking journalism classes, and they told us that we couldn't write by hand first, we had to compose with the typewriter. So I learned to compose with the typewriter because it was so much faster. But the edition meant cutting things apart and pasting them back together in all these different orders. And then in the early, well the mid 1980s I went to work with Illinois State University, found that I was going to teach writing on computers, and had to learn to compose on a computer, which is another liberating experience and so I had this whole thing of literacy/technology experiences that have just really excited me. Now I'm looking at Wikis and conversing with people online. And I just think that's really cool, and it's sort of across the centuries story, because I started in the 60s and now here we are in 2009. So that's my story.