Dr. Cheryl E. Ball » Major Speeches

R&R is the new A: Integrating multimodality into composition curricula

cball — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:39:24 +0000

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I presented this talk on April 22, 2011, at Mesa Community College as part of a Bedford St.-Martin’s symposium on 21st century literacies.

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ASU-MESA CC Talk

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“The Contestation of Multimodality in New Media Scholarship”

cball — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:35:08 +0000

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Ball, Cheryl E. (2009, Dec. 2). The contestation of multimodality in new media scholarship. Visual Culture Colloquium, Illinois State University, Normal, IL.

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Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy has been publishing digital media scholarship since 1996, and each new medium and digital technology offers authors changing ways that they can make meaning through visual, aural, linguistic, and other modes of communication. As editor of Kairos, it is my responsibility to understand the often cutting-edge and genre-bending moves authors make in their submissions to this rhetoric and composition journal. I will present a few examples of submissions (historical and recent) that required the staff and editorial board members to re-negotiate the ever-changing boundaries between ‘typical’ digital scholarship and “new media scholarship,” exemplified by the relationship between the visual and the linguistic (i.e., written).

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“The State of Multimodal Composition Pedagogies”

cball — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:06:05 +0000

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Ball, Cheryl E. (2005, November 18). The state of multimodal composition pedagogies. Text, Image, Networks, & Culture Group, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.

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As the English department at VCU introduced a new, transdisciplinary PhD program in Media, Art, and Text, I was invited to present results from my recently completed national survey of multimodal teacher-scholars.

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see also

Integrating multimodality in composition curricula (under Peer-Reviewed Articles)
Data from the CCCC-Sponsored “Survey of Multimodal Pedagogies in Writing Programs” (under Technical Reports)
Uncovering Theories & Practices of Multiliteracies & New Media Pedagogies (under Grants)

“Considering Technology-Rich Texts in a Literature/Writing Curriculum”

cball — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:59:22 +0000

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Ball, Cheryl E. (2006, February 7). New medi-ack!: Considering technology-rich texts in a literature/writing curriculum. Kent State University, Kent, OH.

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In two lecture-workshops (one for literature faculty and one for composition faculty), I presented an overview of the history of multimodality in English studies and how multimodal texts are assigned, composed, and analyzed/assessed in the various disciplines. This lecture was part of a year-long speaker series intended to support Kent State’s initiative to introduce multimodal composition in all of its first-year writing classes.

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“What Defines Computers and Writing as a Discipline?”

cball — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:51:35 +0000

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Selfe, Cynthia; Kemp, Fred; Inman, James, & Ball, Cheryl E. (2006, February 18). What defines computers and writing as a discipline? Computers & Writing Online Conference.

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In a roundtable keynote, presented in a synchronous MOO (multi-user, object-oriented chat/game platform), the four presenters address multi-layered questions: Is Computers & Writing truly a discipline? What distinguishes it from the related disciplines of Composition & Rhetoric or Technical Communication? What is the research and theory that inform its teaching and practice? The panelists take questions from the audience as well.

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keynote transcript (HTML version of MOO format)