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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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Tags: graduate, guest lecture, professional development, speaker series, undergraduate
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Tags: mentoring, professional development, roundtable, workshop
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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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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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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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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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Ball, Cheryl E.; Gudding, Gabriel; et al. (2007, October 19). How to get published? Graduate Forum, Department of English. Illinois State University, Normal, IL.
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An overview and Q&A with graduate students on how to query, submit, work with editors, and follow through on publishing in a variety of English studies journals.
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Tags: local, professional development, workshop
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2007, October 11). What’s new in rhetoric and composition?: New media studies. Writing Program Professional Development Event, Illinois State University, Normal, IL.
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A panel session with several guest speakers discussing different areas of rhet/comp that are current. My presentation focused on implementing new media composition practices into first-year writing courses. The audience for this professional development event were graduate students and non-tenure track faculty teaching first-year composition.
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Ball, Cheryl E., & Moeller, Ryan. (2006, November 14). Teaching writing with technology. Graduate Teaching Assistant Practicum, English Department. Utah State University.
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A one-hour workshop for graduate students teaching first- and second-year composition in the English department at Utah State University. Ball and Moeller overview current theories and practices of teaching writing using networked technologies such as discussion boards, multimedia composition programs, and web resources.
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