In rhet/comp we have become accustomed to the wars between the technophiles, technophobes and the just plain confused. It seems that there is the constant fear that using new technologies (referred to by most as simply "technology") will distract us from our real classroom work-- teaching "real" writing. In the 1986 article, "Integrating Computers into the Writing Classroom: Some Guidelines," Dinan, Gagnon, and Taylor assert: "Above all, we try to keep writing, not technology, the center of the course, even when we are introducing word processing to the students" (34).