Teaching Category

Friday, October 30th, 2009

White: “Enlightenment Aisle Eight”

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Chair, Masters thesis committee. Melinda White. (2007, April). “Enlightenment Aisle Eight” [creative/multimedia]. Utah State University.

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As chair of White’s committee, I worked with colleagues on one of the department’s first creative, digital theses, “Enlightenment Aisle Eight.” White  drew on electronic literature and hypertext theory as well as creative writing to make an interactive, multimedia thesis. She also wrote an analytical essay describing the theories she used and why. After graduation, White began the interdisciplinary PhD program in Media, Art, and Text where she also has served as an assistant editor to the online literary journal, Blackbird.

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Friday, October 30th, 2009

Lamanna: “Disciplining Identities: Feminism, New Media, and 21st Century Research Practices”

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Dissertation reader (non-voting ex-officio). Carrie Lamanna. (2007, July). “Disciplining Identities: Feminism, New Media, and 21st Century Research Practices.” University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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My role was to provide feedback to Lamanna during the dissertation defense, with specific attention to the relationship between her written chapters and her digital media chapters. (She was presenting some of the first all-digital chapters in a dissertation, so I was on hand to help explain their scholarly significance, if needed.) As of 2009, Lamanna is an assistant professor and Writing Center Director at Colorado State University. Her digital dissertation process opened a larger research study for her (with a colleague from UIUC, Kathie Gossett, with whom I work on Kairos) about digital dissertations in graduate schools and implementing digital media coursework into graduate curricula. They have presented at multiple conferences on this topic.

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Friday, October 30th, 2009

Palmeri: “Multimodality and Composition Studies, 1960–Present”

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Dissertation reader (non-voting ex-officio). Jason Palmeri. (2007, June). “Multimodality and Composition Studies, 1960–Present.” Ohio State University.

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My role during the defense was to to ask questions as needed and provide feedback on publication venues for Palmeri’s dissertation. He has turned some of the background knowledge from his dissertation into a collaborative multimedia submission on invention to the digital book collection I am editing, and is turning the majority of the diss into print articles and/or a book. As of 2009, he is an assistant professor of English at Miamu University of Ohio.

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Friday, October 30th, 2009

“Editing Online Journals”

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Ball, Cheryl E., & Ellison, Katherine. (2009, April 29). Editing online journals. Publications Unit Professional Speaker Series, Illinois State University.

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For interns in the Publications Unit at ISU, Ellison and I spoke about our respective online journals (Kairos and Digital Defoe). We outlined the peer-review and editorial processes and how they might differ from print publications (which is what the interns focus on).

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Friday, October 30th, 2009

“A Brief History of Computers and Composition”

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Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, October 22). A brief history of computers and composition. Teaching Composition (Dr. Bob Broad’s graduate seminar), Illinois State University.

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In this guest lecture for a graduate class, I provided a historical look at computers and composition studies since the early 1980s, showing the trajectory of its research and praxis interests including the introduction of multiple media in the last decade.

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Friday, October 30th, 2009

“‘Dr. Design’: On Résumés and Job Negotiations”

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Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, February 5). ‘Dr. Design’: On résumés and job negotiations. English Studies Capstone (Dr. Amy Robillard’s undergraduate seminar), Illiinois State University.

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A two-hour guest lecture/workshop for one section of graduating seniors on how to prepare their résumés for the job market, including tips on designing the résumé and negotiating a job offer.

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Friday, October 30th, 2009

“Visual Rhetoric in the Composition Classroom”

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Ball, Cheryl E. (2007, October 10). Visual rhetoric in the composition classroom: Theory and praxis. Teaching Composition (Dr. Bob Broad’s graduate seminar), Illinois State University.

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A guest lecture for the required Teaching Composition class (for all graduate assistants teaching first-year composition) on ways to use visual analysis techniques in a writing class.

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Friday, October 30th, 2009

“Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods in New Media”

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Ball, Cheryl E. (2005, October 20). Qualitative and quantitative research methods in new media. Research Methods (Dr. Rebecca Rickley’s graduate seminar), Texas Tech University.

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Outlining for graduate students the multiple research methods I used to study new media texts (based on my dissertation research) as well as the methods used in the national survey on multimodal pedagogies I’d recently completed.

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Friday, October 30th, 2009

“Intro to New Media Texts”

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Ball, Cheryl E. (2004–2006, three lectures). Intro to New Media Texts. Teaching Literature course (Dr. Brock Dethier’s undergraduate seminar), Utah State University.

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In three one-hour sessions, for three different sections of Teaching Literature (a methods class for English Education majors), I discussed why and how to integrate multimedia texts into a secondary education English classroom. Students in the class analyzed example new media texts and discussed how to use their critical and rhetorical knowledge as English majors to help them teach students to analyze nonwritten texts.

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Thursday, October 29th, 2009

“Preparing your Online Faculty Presence”

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Ball, Cheryl E. (2009, April 2). Preparing your online faculty presence. University of Findlay, Findlay, OH.

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While at Findlay giving a talk on why to prepare an online portfolio, I also gave a workshop to interested faculty in how to prepare such a portfolio using the blogging platform WordPress (using my own portfolio as an example).

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Thursday, October 29th, 2009

“Writing for Publication”

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Ball, Cheryl E., et al. (2009, April 17). Writing for Publication. College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Mentoring Session. Illinois State University.

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Two hour overview and Q&A on how to publish, provided to new tenure-track faculty by journal editors in the College of Arts and Sciences at ISU. Seven editors on the panel, each presenting a 5-minute overview about a different aspect of the publishing process.

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Thursday, October 29th, 2009

“Video Poetry: Turning Print Literature into Digital Media”

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Ball, Cheryl E., &  Ellison, Katherine. (2009, January 31). Video poetry: Turning print literature into digital media. Expanding Your Horizons through Math, Science, and Technology Conference. Illinois State University, Normal, IL.

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Two one-hour workshops for girls ages 8-13 who are interested in math and sciences. Ellison and I introduced them to the concept of digital humanities, providing them with sample videos and graphics that they could remix, based on a theme of civil rights (since the workshop was close upon the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday).

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Thursday, October 29th, 2009

“Preparing Digital Scholarship for Submission to Kairos”

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Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, December 10). Preparing digital scholarship for submission to Kairos. Department of English, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.

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An invited workshop on issues in digital scholarship and submitting to Kairos. Presented to faculty and graduate students, in a two-hour overview and Q&A.

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Thursday, October 29th, 2009

“Digital Publishing Workshop”

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Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, November 8). Digital publishing. Department of English, Miami University of Ohio, Oxford, OH.

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While at Miami University of Ohio, giving a lecture on evaluating digital scholarship, I spoke with the graduate students and junior faculty about how to publish in online journals, from concepts and prototypes to editor queries and submission.

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Thursday, October 29th, 2009

“The Academic Job Market Q&A”

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Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, February 2). The academic job market Q&A. Department of English, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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While at OSU to give a Visiting Scholar lecture, I also met with the graduate students to provide them an overview of going on the job market in English Studies, with a particular emphasis in rhetoric, composition, literacy studies, and digital media.

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