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	<title>Six Years and Counting...</title>
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	<description>a tenure blog for Dr. Cheryl E. Ball</description>
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		<title>upgrading the backend today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[bear with me&#8230;
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		<link>http://www.ceball.com/2008/09/12/upgrading-the-backend-today/</link>
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		<title>new media citations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This summer has been a blur of activity and I am behind on my e-portfolio/tenure project. I am in the midst of catching up on some scholarly blog reading and found this juicy nugget about citations in new media from MediaCommons.
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		<link>http://www.ceball.com/2008/08/09/new-media-citations/</link>
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		<title>Manifestos! a special issue of Kairos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[citation
DeWitt, Scott Lloyd, &#038; Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, May). Manifestos! [Special issue]. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 12(3). Retrieved May 15, 2008, from http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/12.3/.
abstract
This special issue of Kairos began at the Digital     Media and Composition institute  (DMAC 2007) at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. At [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ceball.com/2008/06/07/manifestos-a-special-issue-of-kairos/</link>
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		<title>C&#038;W 2008 Presentation: New Media Scholarly Heuristics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[citation
Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, May 23). New media scholarship: Taxonomies, heuristics, and strategies to connect (?) authors, editors, departments, and tenure committees. Computers and Writing, Athens, GA.
abstract
Panel Title: New Media Scholarship Stakeholders: Departmental, Editorial, and Authorial Issues
Although increasing numbers of faculty are creating scholarship for online venues, the Report of the MLA Task Force on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ceball.com/2008/05/31/cw-2008-presentation-new-media-scholarly-heuristics/</link>
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		<title>RNF 2008: Tips on Digital Scholarship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[abstract
This is a talk I gave with Kris Blair (her portion is excised from the attachment, but I&#8217;m sending it to her) at the Research Network Forum 2008, during CCCC in New Orleans. We spoke to about, oh, 100+ people about publishing digital scholarship. I&#8217;ll write more on this later and include the handouts I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ceball.com/2008/04/15/rnf-2008-tips-on-digital-scholarship/</link>
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		<title>awards: Summer Faculty Professional Development Fellowship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great news, which I will post/edit more into later. This is a summer fellowship to work on my digital tenure portfolio, which I will use to propose to the college/university for use in my actual tenure case. Rock on, ISU, for supporting innovative professional development.
accompanying material:

ISU Summer Fellowship Proposal 

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		<link>http://www.ceball.com/2008/04/09/awards-summer-faculty-professional-development-fellowship/</link>
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		<title>CCCC 2008: &#8220;Peer Review in Digital Scholarship&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[citation
Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, April 3). Scholarly peer-review in new media.  Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, LA.
abstract
The MLA Report on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion (2006) renews the legitimacy gap between refereed print articles and refereed electronic articles, indicating that, “print articles count […] in 97.9% of departments, as compared [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ceball.com/2008/04/07/cccc-2008-peer-review-in-digital-scholarship/</link>
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		<title>introduction to &#8220;Who needs YouTube?!&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[citation
Ball, Cheryl E. (Producer/Director). (2007, Dec. 11). Who needs YouTube?! [3-minute original film + student video showcase]. Presented at The Normal Theater, Normal, IL.
description
I produced an end-of-semester showcase for students in my Multimedia Writing Workshop (English 289.22), which was held at the historic Normal Theater. The showcase included a selection of short digital videos in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ceball.com/2008/03/17/introduction-to-who-needs-youtube/</link>
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		<title>Converging assumptions: How new media can bridge a scholarly/creative split in English studies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[citation
Ball, Cheryl E., &#038; Moeller, Ryan M. (forthcoming/March 2008). Converging the ASS[umptions] between U and ME; or, How new media can bridge a scholarly/creative split in English studies. Computers and Composition Online [Special issue: Media convergence]. Retrieved February 17, 2008, from http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/convergence/
abstract
Authors of new media texts regularly draw on both scholarly and creative genres to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ceball.com/2008/02/17/convering-assumptions-how-new-media-can-bridge-a-scholarlycreative-split-in-english-studies/</link>
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		<title>open-access scholarship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the news:
Harvard University’s arts and sciences faculty will vote today on a proposal in which the university would publish all the finished papers of its scholars in a free online repository unless they opted out of the arrangement, The New York Times reported. In an op-ed in today’s Harvard Crimson, Robert Darnton, director of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ceball.com/2008/02/12/open-access-scholarship/</link>
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		<title>new media scholarship lecture at OSU</title>
		<description><![CDATA[citation
Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, February 1). What&#8217;s the Point of New Media? Evaluating Transitional, Digital Scholarship. Digital Media Lecture Series, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

overview
Some folks have asked for my PowerPoint slides from the talk on evaluating digital/new media scholarship, which I gave a preliminary version of two weeks ago at UIUC and again [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ceball.com/2008/02/06/new-media-scholarship-lecture-at-osu/</link>
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		<title>Reinventing the Possibilities: Academic Literacy and New Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[and you thought I&#8217;d stopped researching, eh? naw, just finally got finished moving&#8230;
citation:
Ball, Cheryl E., &#038; Moeller, Ryan M. (2007). Reinventing the possibilities: Academic literacy and new media. Fibreculture Journal, 10. Retrieved December 24, 2007, from http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue10/ball_moeller/index.html
abstract:
This webtext demonstrates the possibilities of using new media to teach     students critical literacy skills [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ceball.com/2007/12/24/reinventing-the-possibilities-academic-literacy-and-new-media/</link>
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		<title>A Conversation: From &#8216;They Call me Doctor?!&#8217; to Tenure (peer-reviewed webtext)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[citation
Arola, Kristin L., &#038; Ball, Cheryl E. (2007, Spring). A conversation: From &#8216;They call me doctor?!&#8217; to tenure. Computers and Composition Online. Retrieved April 10, 2007, from http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/doctor/.
abstract/preface excerpt
&#8230; We realized—with our limited understanding of being at the beginning or in the midst of our tenure tracks—that there were three stages to the transition between [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ceball.com/2007/04/10/a-conversation-from-they-call-me-doctor-to-tenure-peer-reviewed-webtext/</link>
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		<title>Jacobson Lecture, 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following in a prestigious line of C&#038;W scholars, including Michael Day, Dickie Selfe,  Steve Krause, and Tracy Bridgeford, I presented the Jacobson Lecture this morning as part of Creighton University&#8217;s Jacobson Symposium on Teaching with Technology. The participants of the conference included teachers and other interested folks from a ton of fields including English, sociology, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ceball.com/2007/03/31/jacobson-lecture-2007/</link>
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		<title>Take 20 DVD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nick Carbone posted the following announcement on the WPA listserv last week:
Todd Taylor&#8217;s directed a college composition documentary film called _Take 20_. The film asked 22 composition scholars and teachers 20 questions about writing and the teaching of writing. I just got through a meeting where we looked at some of the footage. Below you&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ceball.com/2007/02/27/take-20-dvd/</link>
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		<title>Sophie project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am in New York right now at the offices for the Institute for the Future of the Book, which rocks, and we&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ceball.com/2007/02/17/sophie-project/</link>
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		<title>Political Economy and Sustaining the Unstable: DRAFT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since it&#8217;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; &#038; Ball, Cheryl. (under review). Political Economy and Sustaining the Unstable: New Faculty and Research in English Studies. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ceball.com/2007/02/12/creating-sustainable-technological-ecologies-draft/</link>
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		<title>The Learning Suite grant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Update (internal grant from USU)
Dear Ryan and Cheryl,
I am pleased to inform you that your innovation fund proposal, &#8220;The
Learning Suite: A Collaborative, Technology-rich Environment to Support
Writing/Composition in a Digital Age,&#8221; was selected by the Provost&#8217;s
Office for funding. Congratulations! Your proposal was well received as
an innovative, high impact project. The project budget was approved at
$86,357. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ceball.com/2006/12/07/the-learning-suite-grant/</link>
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		<title>Data from CCCC Research Grant survey on multimodality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anderson, Daniel, Anthony Atkins, Cheryl Ball, Krista Homicz Millar, Cynthia Selfe, and Dickie Selfe. (Author-Researchers). Matt Bemer. (Designer). (2006). Data from a CCCC research grant survey on teaching multimodal composition. Composition Studies 34(2). Available: http://www.compositionstudies.tcu.edu/archives/342/cccc-data/.
This website accompanies an article appearing in the print version of Composition Studies entitled “Integrating Multimodality in Composition Curricula: Survey Methodology [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ceball.com/2006/12/07/data-from-cccc-research-grant-survey-on-multimodality/</link>
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		<title>refereed article: Composition Studies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[citation
Atkins, Anthony; Anderson, Daniel; Ball, Cheryl; Homicz Millar, Krista; Selfe, Cynthia; &#038; Selfe, Richard. (2007, forthcoming). Integrating multimodality in composition curricula: Survey methodology and results from a CCCC Research Initiative grant. Composition Studies, 35(1). 
abstract
This article describes methodology and outcomes of a national survey conducted in 2005 to discover how instructors use multimodal composition practices [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ceball.com/2006/11/03/refereed-article-composition-studies/</link>
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