Kairos Web continues to publish some of the best work about teaching, learning, and technology; Volume 9.2 (Spring 2005) focuses on "Writing in Globalization." I especially appreciated Virginia Kuhn's Visual Work: Visual Projects in the Writing Classroom, for it considers crucial issues of just what we want to mean by "writing" these days.

"I firmly believe that just as yesterday's writing classrooms helped to prepare students for their other college classes by both honing their critical thinking skills as well as their verbal literacy, today's writing instructors are in a position to teach students the type of multimodal literacy...

The Visual Resources Association is a multi-disciplinary community of image management professionals working in educational and cultural heritage environments. The Association is committed to providing leadership in the field, developing and advocating standards, and providing educational tools and opportunities for its members. The Association offers a forum for issues of vital concern to the membership, including documentation and access to images of visual culture, integration of technology-based instruction and research, and intellectual property policy. Through collaboration and partnership with the broader information management and educational technology communities, the Association actively supports the primacy of visual culture in the educational experience.

Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation is devoted to the study of images and their use. Those images which depict architecture and works of art are of primary concern. The process by which these images are made, organized and ultimately utilized is investigated. This journal explores how visual language is structured and visual meaning communicated and also illustrates how picture collections are acquired, organized, indexed, and preserved. Its scope delves into the past and looks toward the future. Included herein is an analysis of how reproductive images have influenced the perception of art, and how the interpretation of images has affected academic disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, history, and particularly art and architectural history.