Sophie project


February 17th, 2007

I am in New York right now at the offices for the Institute for the Future of the Book, which rocks, and we’re beta-testing Sophie, which is a multimedia authoring/aggregating program. I made this book. Sophie is open-source, made with Squeak (which is some program I have no idea what it does or how it writes things). You, too, can download and play around with Sophie, as well as edit the hell out of my crazy little Sophie ‘book’. btw, the video in this book is from a student in my multimodal composition class last fall. It’s only the first 2 minutes of a 10 minute movie. Enjoy, and give me feedback. I hope to use Sophie in the fall and forever and ever until something totally more-future than the book comes along.

Well, I can’t seem to upload it right now to either of my available servers, so I’ll do that later.

cb

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Political Economy and Sustaining the Unstable: DRAFT


February 12th, 2007

Since it’s job negotiation season for lots of folks, I wanted to post this draft of a co-authored chapter about things to look out for and request regarding technologies at a new school.
citation
Moeller, Ryan; Cargile Cook, Kelli; & Ball, Cheryl. (under review). Political Economy and Sustaining the Unstable: New Faculty and Research in English Studies. In Danielle DeVoss, Heidi McKee, & Dickie Selfe (Eds.), Technological ecologies and sustainability: Methods, modes, and assessment. Book manuscript under review at C&C Digital Press.

draft
economies-ecologies_final.pdf

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book project/edited collection


October 29th, 2006

citation
Ball, Cheryl E., & Kalmbach, James (Eds.). RAW: Reading and writing new media. (in progress)

RAW (Reading & Writing) New Media is an edited collection of 22 chapters and includes four sections: Reading New Media, Writing New Media, Situating New Media, and Teaching New Media. This collection contains chapters by a range of new media/writing studies scholars, from graduate students to full professors, many of whom are well-recognized in the field.

status
Prospectus and four chapters go to MIT Press in November 2006, for consideration. 18 chapters are in final editing stages.

co-editor/contribution:

  • James Kalmbach is Professor of English at Illinois State University.
  • My contribution = 50% editorial work on 22 chapters + 40% authoring on book introduction.

accompanying materials

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