Dr. Cheryl E. Ball » instructor

“New media in the writing classroom”

cball — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:12:42 +0000

Keynote Speaker/Workshop Leader. (2010, August 17). Strengthening student writing@TSU: New media in the writing classroom. Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN.

description
A one-day workshop to lead 30 faculty in the Languages, Literature, and Philosophy department in creating multimodal assignments for their writing classes.

“Preparing your Online Faculty Presence”

cball — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:11:47 +0000

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

description
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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“Video Poetry: Turning Print Literature into Digital Media”

cball — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:06:08 +0000

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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.

description
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).

accompanying materials

Workshop website with examples of girls’ video poetry

“Preparing Digital Scholarship for Submission to Kairos”

cball — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:58:45 +0000

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

description
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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“Digital Publishing Workshop”

cball — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:56:39 +0000

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

description
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.

accompanying materials

none available