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Ball, Cheryl E, & Ellison, Katherine. (2009, May). Sigma Tau Delta Award for Mentoring. Illinois State University.
description
Dr. Ellison and I have been leading job-market workshops for graduating PhD students since Fall of 2007. We were recognized for our mentorship in these volunteer positions.
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, May). Sigma Tau Delta Award for Teaching. Illinois State University.
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I received this award from the ISU chapter of Sigma Tau Delta for notable teaching in my English 350: Visible Rhetoric class, which was also my first semester at ISU.
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2009, July 13–August 7). The New Work of Composing: Examining writing and editorial processes in digital media scholarship. Vectors-NEH Summer Fellowship. Institute for Multimedia Literacy, University of Southern California. $5,000.
proposal description
For this Vectors–NEH institute, I plan to complete a full, first draft of the afterword to a digital, multimodal edited collection (of which I am co-editor) under consideration with Computers and Composition Digital Press (ccdigitalpress.org). The afterword of this e-book, The New Work of Composing, addresses how (and, to some extent, whether) composing and editing processes change when the intellectual work of the “book” is performed in a media-rich environment. I will examine (a) my own processes of composing the afterword, and (b) the composing (and revision) processes of a number of the book’s authors who are also producing born-digital work.
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2009, Spring). The new work of composing: Editing an online (digital) multimedia book in English studies. Faculty Excellence Initiative Committee, Illinois State University. $4,000/course release.
abstract
This application is for a course re-assignment to co-edit and publish the first digital, new media book in the humanities, The New Work of Composing. Publishing books is considered the “gold standard” for tenure in the humanities, but the economic crisis in publishing pushes scholars toward digital publications. This is problematic because, according to a recent MLA survey, over half of humanities department chairs have no experience evaluating digital work for tenure. This is not surprising since there are currently no examples of digital, multimedia work. This project would fill that gap. Computers and Composition Digital Press, the first online-only academic press in the humanities, has requested our prospectus. My goals for the project are (1) to study how digital-media books and articles are composed/designed, peer-reviewed (by editors and tenure stakeholders), and revised for publication; and (2) to relate this research experience to my teaching and English department needs by proposing a class in digital scholarship. The course release will allow me time to collaborate on designing the collection’s interface, completing 2–3 sample chapters, and co-writing the introduction as well as to draft the course proposal. Research about editing the collection will be disseminated locally through seminars and brown-bags, as well as through national conferences and, after the book is published, via the press’s free, open-access website.
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CELJ Award for Best Design. (2009, December). Presented to Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.
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The CELJ is an international affiliate of the Modern Language Association. On behalf of Kairos’s design team (Karl Stolley, Douglas Eyman, and Kathie Gossett), I submitted the 2008 redesign of Kairos for this award.
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, June). Professional Development Travel Award, Faculty Excellence Initiative Committee, Illinois State University. $750.
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The nationally recognized Digital Media and Composition (DMAC) institute (held at Ohio State University) is a hands-on, professional development workshop focused on multimedia and new media theory and production within English Studies. During the workshop, participants engaged in learning about the effective use of digital media in humanities classrooms. I was a staff member for the institute, which afforded me the opportunity to engage in helping others professionally develop while also adding to my own professional development, as outlined in the components and outcomes in the attached proposal and report.
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Arola, Kristin L., & Ball, Cheryl E. (2007, May). Kairos Best Webtext: Award Finalist for “A conversation: From ‘They call me doctor?!’ to tenure.”
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The Kairos Best Webtext Awards are presented annually at the Computers and Writing conference for the best academic webtext published in the previous academic year (the webtext does not have to be published in Kairos). (Note: Since 2006, when an earlier webtext of mine was nominated for this award while I was editor, the Communications Editors of Kairos have managed the entire awards process, to ensure fairness in judging, which is done by editorial board members and guest judges from the field of digital writing studies.)
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Ball, Cheryl E. [Researcher], & Wendling, Matthew [Fellow]. (2009, Summer). A case study of revision processes in student-authored digital media scholarship. Research and Sponsored Programs Undergraduate Research Fellow Grant, Illinois State University. $3,500.
description
I authored this undergraduate research fellowship application for Matthew Wendling to work over the summer on a chapter for the edited collection I’m working on, The New Work of Composing. He was revising three student texts from the chapter submission, “Talking Back To Teachers: Undergraduate Research in Digital Media,” which Wendling helped to co-author with his fellow undergraduates in my Fall 2008 Multimodal Composition course.
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2009, May 12–15). Writing an NEH-Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant. Research and Sponsored Programs Grant-Development Workshop, Illinois State University. $500 + $500 when submitted.
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This one-week workshop, offered by ISU’s Research and Sponsored Programs office, focused on writing, preparing, and submitting external grants. I was chosen based on a brief application to attend and draft an NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up grant.
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2007, May 31–June 12). Visiting Scholar in Digital Media and Composition. English Department, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. $500.
description
As a Visiting Scholar in Digital Media and Composition at OSU, I will interview participants from a range of backgrounds and institutions about their reading/meaning-making abilities when it comes to new media scholarship. plan on using one or two sample texts, which I will ask participants to read in advance of our interview, and I will have a set list of interview questions to ask them regarding how they interpret the text’s argument(s) through multiple modes. I plan to follow-up these questions by asking them to reflect on their reading process so that they can discuss the resources they used (theory, practice, etc.) to make sense of the text under examination; for suggestions regarding what they believe they would need in order to better/further interpret such texts; and what their department heads or tenure committees might need to read the same texts.
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