"Coffee stall by the front entrance. People drinking coffee in the shade of a tree. More or less everyone in suits. Business coffee-break. Giles, meet me at half-two, outside the church, for a power-espresso. Stockbrokers, financiers, commodity-dealers. I don't do tangibles, I do invisibles, I'm into futures, that's'" [...]
This is a reminder that proposals for the special issue of IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication are due December 31. Please see the full cfp below. Please write to the editors if you have questions.
Pavel.
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EEE Transactions on Professional Communication
Special Issue Focus: Professional Communication In Global Contexts
Deadline for Proposals: December [...]
Writing instructors who teach online or in networked classrooms are embracing highly collaborative Web 2.0 applications in their writing pedagogy. This essay collection, under contract with Fountainhead Press in the X Series for Professional Development, seeks to provide writing instructors with examples of writing classroom pedagogy that has creatively and [...]
Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy seeks nominations for its annual awards for 2010.
The Kairos Best Webtext Award for the best academic webtext published in the previous academic year (the webtext does not have to be published in Kairos). The John Lovas Memorial Academic Weblog Award (formerly Kairos Best Academic [...]I've been working on a chapter for Charlie and Pavel's collection and came across 5 Great Alternatives To Google Docs You Should Consider by David Pierce. I hadn't heard hardly anything about these before reading the article, and one is even made by Adobe (Buzzword). One called Zoho even [...]
My daughter started high school a couple of weeks ago. She is now working on her first research paper in honors English.
This is the correct way to write a research paper:
1. Find information on the assigned topic.
2. Take notes on 3x5" notecards. Be sure to put everything in your" [...]
"The house was full of packing-cases. Even the pretty lawn at the side was to pack up, stiffly and slowly, through the bare echoing November. The very robin that her father had so often made, with his own hands, more gorgeous than ever; amber and golden; here, at" [...]
Event: Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Deadline: Saturday, October 31st, 2009
The Research Network Forum was founded in 1987 as a pre-convention workshop at CCCC. The RNF is an opportunity for published researchers, new researchers, and graduate students to discuss their current research projects and receive responses from new and [...]
As part of a study investigating multimodal composition in first year writing classrooms, a researcher from Ball State University is conducting a brief survey of those who teach first year writing (regardless if they teach multimodal documents or not). Please take the time to complete the brief survey if you [...]
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Online Conference: Thursday, May 6, 2010 – Thursday, May 13, 2010
Onsite Conference: Thursday, May 20, 2010 – Sunday, May 23, 2010
Proposal Due Date: October 23, 2009 (before midnight EST)
Notifications of Acceptance: December 15, 2009
Registration Opens: January 15, [...]
Assistant Professor of Composition/English
Seton Hill University seeks specialist in Composition/Writing Studies for tenure-track, Assistant Professor of English, beginning fall 2010. The faculty member will teach composition and related courses in the Undergraduate Writing Program, with additional generalist responsibilities in English. 4/4 course load. A Ph.D. in Composition/Rhetoric is required. Additional [...]
The Department of Writing and Linguistics in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences invites nominations and applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. Georgia Southern University, a member institution of the University System of Georgia, is the largest and most comprehensive center of higher education in the southern [...]
Hi, all. I'm posting this CFP for a conference being hosted (by me, presumably) here at St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, MN. This is a fantastic group of folks who love tech and are very supportive and graduate-student friendly. I think it's going to be lots of fun,' [...]
Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is pleased to announce the release of Issue 14.1 for Fall 2000. Our theme and our content for this issue can best be expressed by quoting editor Cheryl Ball's summary from Logging On:
#InThisIssue
Inventio: Delagrange reflects on Wunderkammer webtext process in “When Revision [...]
Hi, everyone. I want to ask your advice about choosing a textbook or two for my English 403/503 class called "Computers & English." I want to teach it as an intro to new media type course with a focus on doing projects rather than theoretical readings. I don't really want' [...]
IHE has an article about a meeting between Blackboard execs and frustrated users.
[...]
The idea of the London Churches project is to visit every church in the City of London - and probably a few outside - and use the visits as the basis of an online work. This isn't a blog, and it certainly isn't a historical or architectural guide. [...]
Congratulations to the Kairos award winners, honored at Computer's & Writing 2009, for their work done in 2008.
GRADUATE AND ADJUNCT AWARD FOR SERVICE
Rik Hunter, University of Wisconsin–Madison
AND ADJUNCT AWARD FOR TEACHING
Annette Vee, University of Wisconsin–Madison
GRADUATE AND ADJUNCT AWARD FOR RESEARCH
Krista A. Kennedy, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
JOHN [...]
Is it just me or does anybody else see that mouse as a bike helmet? Every time I go to this page I mentally think it's about bicycling for an instant...
[...]Looks like California may be the first state to really start hammering on open source digital textbooks, which the Governator thinks might cut spending by $350 million. Hilarious that this is happening in the Hollywood state. :)
[...]In the Spring 2009 edition of Digital Humanities Quarterly, Eric Gordon of Emerson College and David Bogen of RISD write about “Designing Choreographies for the 'New Economy of Attention.'” This is one of the smartest pieces I've seen about the use of multiple forms of wireless media in the classroom' [...]
Call for Webtexts
Computers and Composition Online Summer/Fall 2010 Special Issue
Open Source: Purpose, Practice, and Priorities
Special Issue Editors Lanette Cadle, Joe Erickson, and Kristine Blair
As shown in the upcoming Fall 2009 Computers and Composition Online special issue, Composition in the Freeware Age, open source projects are a significant [...]
I know many of you have been keeping tabs on Wolphram|Alpha, the "long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone." Well, looks like Google has responded with their own tool called Google Squared. You can read up on Google Squared on the official Google [...]
I was reading Boing Boing today and found a link to Educational Origami, a blgo and wiki about Information and Communication Technologies in the classroom. Much of it seems focused on Bloom, learning styles, and various kind of charts that break people into groups like "leaders" and "risk takers." [...]
Reminder! The deadline to be listed in the GRN printed program and apply for Travel Grant funding is May 30!
We invite proposals for work-in-progress discussions at the tenth anniversary Graduate Research Network at the 2009 Computers and Writing Conference, June 18, 2009, hosted by the [...]
I want to share the news about Writing Spaces. Thanks to the many wonderful proposals by people in our field (over 100), there will be two volumes published in the Winter of 2010. From the Writing Spaces announcement:
Each volume will contain 25-30 essays on topics such as [...]
The U.S. Copyright Office recently had a hearing to consider fair use exemptions for the DMCA. One of the exemptions brought up was to allow circumvention of DVD copyright protection in order to make clips for educational use. As one would expect, the MPAA was resistant to this idea. [...]
Newly co-published by Furtherfield and The Hyperliterature Exchange: an examination of the new genre of art computer games, dealing with The Princess Murderer by Geniwate and Deena Larsen, The Free Culture Game by Molleindustria, The Marriage by Rod Humble, Samorost 2 by Amanita Design, The Graveyard by Tale [...]
Anybody looking for a roommate for Computers & Writing in June?
Male, non-smoker, enjoys wandering in the woods with a shiny brass lantern...
[...]I thought you might get a kick out of reading an article in the St Cloud Times today: SCSU professor takes video games to new level. It's on the front page of today's paper, above the fold, and very prominent!
I want to thank David Unze, Jason Wachter, and the [...]
A few days ago I Tweeted that I didn't know why I should keep tweeting when I could just as easily use Facebook status updates. Lanette responded on her blog with Why Matt Barton Should Twitter More. It's a really great post and has gotten me to appreciate' [...]
PC Magazine's Lance Ulanoff has a column up called DRM is Dead, Long Live Content. Lance seems to think that we're throwing the baby out with the bath water here, and that there will be far fewer albums, movies, and even e-books as more publishers give up on DRM' [...]
I found this on Presentation Zen. Reynolds is right. This is an amazing new media text. I don't want to say anything about it, other than pretty much everyone following this site will appreciate it :-)
' [...]I hate to report on this, simply because Charlie is a good friend of mine and all, plus he bought me a Jaegermeister shot or two. However, I thought you might want to know that his laptop has been seized by the FBI. Apparently, he had something on there called [...]
Congratulations to our own Matt Barton for winning a small reoccurring role in the new Stargate Universe series to premier this fall on SciFi Channel. Matt will play the character of Mondain Minax, a cyber-space explorer and weirding weapons expert who lives more in VR than RL. Minax [...]
I was browsing Digg today and came across 5 Great Men Who Built Their Careers on Plagiarism on Cracked.com. I'm not going to vouch for the authenticity of Mr. Evans' report, but still good stuff.
If you need a chuckle after reading that, look at this inspirational poster [...]
Ars Technica reports, "Only four freshmen showed up at the University of Virginia in 2007 without a computer of their own, and the school has decided that it's no longer worth the expense of running campus computer labs."
That's a surprise. Who would have thought only 4 out of over [...]
Thanks to Open Education News for clueing me into this recent news item from the University of New Mexico. Members of the UM PIRG group staged a protest over the state of textbook publishing by creating a textbook graveyard on their campus for the books that the campus [...]
Three interesting stories in today’s Chronicle of Higher Ed. Each has implications for discussions of new media, online education and open source.
1: Newspapers are dying. Are universities next?
The first, by Kevin Carey (policy director of Education Sector, a Washington Think Tank) is titled “What Colleges Should Learn from Newspapers'' [...]
I’d like to invite discussion of a novel and rather disturbing development in online education, one that may have implications for the work many of us do, and quite possibly for rhetoric and composition more generally. And I'd like to suggest that this development requires, among other things, thinking seriously' [...]
