Research Designs Category
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
citation
Designer. (2001). Poetry & Song: The Process of Composing [Website].
http://www.hu.mtu.edu/oldsites/poemandsong
abstract
The Poetry and Song website showcases the relationship between the written word and song. Featuring renowned writer and keyboardist Bill Payne from the group Little Feat, this site lets you explore how professionals approach the craft of songwriting. Payne shares his original poetry and discusses how those poems were transformed into song; his insights are accompanied by rare footage of three Little Feat songs performed in a solo-acoustic format. In addition, you can find a range of resources on poetry and songwriting and even create original songs by combining your lyrics with music samples provided here.
(Note: Site featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education, 5/31/2002)
accompanying materials
- website (site has been moved since original publication; graphic menu is disabled, so use text-only option)
Tags: collaborative, multimedia, online, open-access, pre-tenure track, website
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
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Designer. (2003–04). Technobabe Times [Newsletter]. Michigan Technological University.
abstract
I was the newsletter designer for this print publication. The newsletter was an on-campus and community feminist publication for women and men who worked with technology, distributing local and national news and local opinions and information about women’s causes such as health care and equality. (On a campus with an 5:1 male to female student ratio, a feminist newsletter was an important campus outreach activity.)
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Tags: closed-access, collaborative, open-access, print, published
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
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Production Manager. (2003–04). C Literary Magazine. Michigan Technological University.
abstract
I started this 64-page, perfect-bound undergraduate literary magazine to publish winners from the campus’s annual undergraduate literary contest. Students in my Publications and Information Management (HU 3630) class created the magazine’s title and design and performed basic editing on the collection. I supervised their work and performed final design revisions and editing for the press publication.
[Note: C Literary Magazine was published from 2003 until 2006, when a faculty member transitioned it into a national journal, PANK Magazine (personal correspondence, M. Bartely Seigel, 2007).]
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- not available; closed-access
Tags: closed-access, collaborative, pre-tenure track, print, published
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
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Designer/Editor. (2005–06). Synopsis. Utah State University. [2006 Winner of STC Newsletter competition].
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Synopsis is the print newsletter for Utah State University’s student chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. I edited and directed the newsletter design as interim faculty advisor for the group.
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- not available/closed-access
Tags: award, closed-access, collaborative, mentor, print, published, service-learning, undergraduates
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
citation
Designer/Producer. (2006). Sound in/as compositional space [Video + website]. Computers and Composition Online. http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/sound
abstract 
I designed this website and introductory video for the Sound special issue in C&C Online, which I guest-edited (with Byron Hawk). The video is a 2-minute mash-up/remix of the webtexts contained in the special issue and serves as our “letter from the guest editors” in a multimedia format. (Note: The video is hosted on my server because of space issues on the C&C Online server.)
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Tags: cross-listed, DV, editorial column, multimedia, online, open-access, published, webtext
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
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Designer/Author. (2006–present). Dr. Cheryl E. Ball: Tenure & Promotion Portfolio. http://www.ceball.com
abstract
This digital portfolio, which uses the WordPress blogging platform as its technological base, has been specifically designed (using an author-modified, open-source WordPress template) to host a living version of my CV for access by my tenure readers, students, and readers in my discipline.
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Tags: multimedia, ongoing, online, open-access
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
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Designer. (2007). For Allison Warner [Author], Constructing a tool for assessing scholarly webtexts. Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy, 12(1).
http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/12.1/binder.html?topoi/warner/index.html
abstract
This webtext presents a tool for assessing the scholarly value of online journal publications. It is part of a larger study that uses Kairos webtexts to investigate the scholarly nature of online texts. The goal of this larger study is to deliver a rubric as an instrument to facilitate the acceptance of online texts within English Studies as evidence of scholarship for professional advancement. In order to understand more fully how an online text can be recognized and valued for its scholarly legitimacy, it is crucial to explore the nature of successful (published) online scholarship. The assessment tool presented in this webtext is comprised of questions that help to reveal commonalities and deviations in the function and value of traditional (print) scholarly conventions toward defining an emerging genre of online scholarship. This webtext is designed using a web browser interface that should be familiar to many web readers. Web browsers enable readers to view web pages and provide a gateway to finding information online. This webtext was intentionally designed to draw attention to the interactive ways in which readers can approach texts that are created in or remediated for the Web. This design is mimetic to my thesis, that scholarly webtexts need both familiar and new assessment tools in order to be valued by academic stakeholders.
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Tags: collaborative, multimedia, online, open-access, peer-reviewed, published, webtext
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
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Writer/Producer. (2009, March 31). On a Digital Tenure Portfolio [Video]. First presented at 2009 Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, CA. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJJER7diM6c
abstract
This short movie argues for presenting my tenure materials digitally and outlines the following research questions that are relevant to a digital portfolio and multimodal scholarship:
- How can tenure guidelines be inclusive of nontraditional scholarship?
- How can the intellectual labor of nontraditional scholarship be demonstrated?
- How can tenure readers evaluate nontraditional scholarship?
- How can universities better disseminate scholarship?
The primary audience for this video is the provost and deans of my college, and I presented it at CCCC to get feedback from my disciplinary audience. (Note: The deans saw it and approved my use of a digital portfolio.) The video is linked to from my tenure portfolio: http://www.ceball.com.
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Tags: DV, multimedia, online, open-access, screened
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
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Producer. (2009, September 25). English studies: Redbird style! [Promotional video]. Presented at Executive-in-Residence Forum, English Department, Illinois State University.
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This 6-minute promotional video was filmed by several faculty and staff members in the English Department at Illinois State University to showcase the variety of disciplines that “English Studies” covers. I coordinated filming assignments, editing, and produced the final video.
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Tags: closed-access, collaborative, DV, DVD, screened
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E. [Designer]. (forthcoming, Winter 2009/10). RAW: Reading and writing new media [Website]. http://rawnewmedia.net.
abstract
This website accompanies the eponymous print book collection being published with Hampton Press and includes digital media materials supplied by the chapter authors.
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Tags: multimedia, online, open-access
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
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Ball, Cheryl E. [Producer/Director]. (2007, Dec. 11). Who needs YouTube?! 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 a variety of genres (video poems, music videos, documentaries, memoirs, motifs, etc.) that the students had produced, and a 3-minute introduction I created to contextualize the range of texts. The introduction video, produced using a Mission: Impossible theme, includes original and found (student) footage and was composed using Audacity, Quicktime Pro, iMovie HD, and Final Cut Pro.
accompanying materials
- Video intro to “Who needs YouTube?!” [Quicktime movie; compressed version]
- Full 1-hour compilation available upon request.
Tags: collaborative, DV, online, open-access, screened
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Monday, October 23rd, 2006
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Ball, Cheryl E., & Hewett, Beth L. (2004). The rhetoric and pedagogy of portable technologies [column + graphic]. Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy, 9(1). http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/9.1
description
Issue art designed by Cheryl E. Ball
This editorial column introduced four webtexts on wireless technologies, focusing on the rhetoric and pedagogy of wireless labs and writing classrooms, but also on whether these technologies actually help or hinder our teaching.
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Tags: collaborative, editorial column, graphic, multimedia, online, open-access, published
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Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
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Cassorla, Leah; Ball, Cheryl E. [Graphic]; & Hewett, Beth L. (2005). The intersections of online writing spaces, rhetorical theory, and the composition classroom. Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy, 10(1). http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/10.1/binder2.html?coverweb/bridge.htm
description
Issue art designed by Cheryl E. Ball
This CoverWeb (themed section) column introduces four webtexts about online communication. The texts include topics such as teaching digital writing, using templates and wikis in the classroom, and researching place-based blogs.
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Tags: collaborative, editorial column, graphic, multimedia, online, open-access, published
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Monday, October 2nd, 2006
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Ball, Cheryl E., & Hawk, Byron. (2006). sound+composition+space [Video]. C&C Online. [Special issue: Sound]. http://ceball.com/other/cconline/sound/intro1.mov
abstract
This mash-up of video and audio pieces serves as an introduction to the special issue on sound. Like a traditional “letter from the guest editors,” in which editors contextualize and provide abtracts of the articles in a special issue, this mash-up provides “abstracts” of video and audio that are included in the authors’ texts, thereby contextualizing them by juxtaposing the multiple modes of communication in one text. By splicing samples together (a la the hip hop tradition) from the 14 authors’ pieces, this introduction enacts the performative, aesthetic qualities that the authors articulate are necessary to composition studies in the 21st century. From visual and aural noise at the beginning of the intro, the editors move into an argument for including sound as part of digital writing’s compositional space — that sampling, voiceovers, cut-ups, and other oral/aural considerations can take us into what happens next in writing studies. (Note: Video hosted on my website due to space limitations on C&C Online server.)
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Tags: collaborative, cross-listed, DV, editorial column, multimedia, online, open-access, published
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