ABSTRACT
In the past few years, like many others in the world of writing centers, we have sought to incorporate technology into our practices. Buffeted by conflicting claims-online consulting radically changes the practice of consulting; online consulting is not much different from face-to-face consulting-we have struggled to find ways to determine for ourselves and for our own situation the benefits and drawbacks of the technologies invading our campus. Most problematic for us as practitioners in a relatively young writing center (established 1992) has been the lack of opportunities to pay attention to whether or not these new technologies are congruent with our own emerging pedagogical and theoretical stances. Like many writing centers, our practices are built on a particular set of beliefs, and, at times, the rapid influx of technology has threatened to transform our practices in ways that were both uncomfortable and incompatible with our underlying beliefs.
