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WELCOME
I'm Stu Smith, the pastor of St. James Presbyterian Church in the West Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. St. James is a small liberal/progressive congregation which employs me on a half-time basis. Consequently, I am often looking for additional employment.
In much of my professional life I have been involved in the use of computers (My first exposure to computers was a class in the Fortran language in 1973.) My doctoral project was the development of an web-based educational environment for teens using music, art, and literature resources already available on the internet. The title of my paper was Out of the Church Basement and into Cyberspace: Internet-Based Religious Education for Youth.
I have also been involved in educational theory and practice working as a textbook editor and as an editor for professional journals and books for the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). At NCTE I was the editor and liaison for the author or collection editor for the following
Brooks, Charlotte K. Tapping Potential: English and Language Arts for the Black Learner. Urbana, Ill.: NCTE, 1985.
Gere, Anne Ruggles. Roots in the Sawdust: Writing to Learn across the Disciplines. Urbana, Ill.: NCTE, 1985.
Kahn, Elizabeth A., Carolyn Calhoun Walter, and Larry R. Johannessen. Writing about Liturature. Urbana, Ill.: NCTE, 1984.
Reigstad, Thomas J. and Donald A. McAndrew. Training Tutors for Writing Conferences. Urbana, Ill.: NCTE, 1984.
Selfe, Cynthia L. Computer-Assisted Instruction in Composition: Create Your Own. Urbana, Ill.: NCTE, 1986.
Smith, Michael W. Reducing Writing Apprehension. Urbana, Ill.: NCTE, 1984.
Tway, Eileen. Time for Writing in the Elementary School. Urbana, Ill.:NCTE, 1984.
I was also the in-house editor for the journals College English and English Education as well as several of NCTE's newsletters for more specialized audiences within the profession.