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Because laptop classes are often placed in traditional classroom settings, students and teachers are forced to negotiate between two environments: traditional and technological. Traditional environments lack the tools students need to compose in the digital age, but technological classrooms often eliminate comfortable discussion and learning environments. While Vanessa Cozza’s article focused on observations of computer labs, this section will reflect on two different classroom designs from my own teaching experience: one that required students to bring laptops and one that required only paper and pen. Because traditional classrooms were likely designed without taking technology into consideration, teachers should be aware of what the design of the classroom says about the design of the course. Classroom design affects pedagogy, access, and learning, and therefore, should be considered by the teacher. The difference in design between traditional and technological classes fashion two very different learning environments, and when combined in the form of a laptop class forces a conscious effort and struggle on the instructor’s part to use the classroom space to fit his/her teaching pedagogy. While neither technology nor  \ncomposition was likely at the forefront of the classroom designer ’s mind, when we enter these rooms we must learn to negotiate the space we are provided. In this article, I will reflect on these two experiences to investigate the problem of merging the traditional with the technological.  \nTraditional Environments  \nThe first classroom I taught in was as traditional as they come. Figure 3 illustrates the design in this classroom. Instead of desks, this room contained tables that were pushed together forming long rows. Because of these rows, I could only move along the side of the room without becoming a major distraction. This design did not allow for movement or flexibility. These long tables, accompanied by a blackboard and podium at the front of the classroom, created a classroom that was clearly made for lecture, which is not a common practice in my teaching because I believe students can only learn to write by writing. During a writing workshop, I would quite literally have to climb over tables to reach my students. Worse, a comfortable discussion environment was out of the question. The tables could not be reorganized so my students could face one another. Instead, due to the forward facing design, I was always front and center and my students were always the audience rather than active participants. If I wanted to decenter myself, my class and I had to leave the classroom.  \nThis classroom lacked modern technology, and the traditional design implied that the teacher, not the students or the writing, was the center of the classroom. The inconvenient design of this classroom led to exactly what it was made for: lecture. Although I frequently attempted writing workshops, my inability to negotiate the design of the room led to what I felt were unsuccessful workshops: I spent more time trying to get to my students then I spent helping my students with their writing. Worse, I was a distraction: my students would look up every time I moved around because I was climbing over or under a table, asking them to push their chairs in so I could move behind them, or making some other distracting movement. Another problem arose because most of my students preferred to compose using technology, but the classroom environment only allowed for longhand writing. 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