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.
Tags: instructor, invited, local
Roundtable (two sessions). (2010, August 16). The successful researcher. New Faculty Orientation, Illinois State University, Normal, IL.
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Participating with VP of Research for Illinois State University, I spoke to new faculty members (in a morning and afternoon session) about personal and professional strategies for being a successful researcher at Illinois State.
Tags: invited, local, mentoring, roundtable
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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.
poster for talk, designed by Michele Melanie
abstract
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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Panel reviewer. (2009, Summer). National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants.
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National reviewer for NEH grants related to editing and digital humanities work. Read and evaluated 25 start-up grants and attended a one-day review panel in Washington, D.C. to discuss evaluations with other panel members.
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Tags: invited, national service, panel reviewer
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Judge. (2009). National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Affiliate Website Award.
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Judging a dozen or so websites of local or regional NCTE affiliates based on criteria including navigation, content, speed, privacy, size, outreach, and links.
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Tags: invited, judge, national service
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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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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, February 2). The academic job market Q&A. Department of English, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
description
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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Tags: invited, local, professional development, workshop
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, June 23–28). Instructor, New Media Writing Studio. Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX.
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I was invited to lead this one-week, studio-style institute for faculty members across the curriculum to compose and teach using digital media.
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, October 17). Designing digital scholarship (and having it count): A case built on three perspectives. Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.
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In this panel session, three presenters spoke to digital projects they had undertaken (a digital archive, a wiktionary, and a scholarly webtext published in Kairos), discussing compositional, revision, and “counting” issues relating to tenure and promotion. I responded to the panelists based on my experience as editor of Kairos, as a junior faculty member using a lot of digital scholarship in my tenure case, and as a promoter/user of digital portfolios to make tenure arguments.
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Tags: invited, respondent, session chair
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, October 16). Digital scholarship roundtable. Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.
abstract
In this session, five presenters — all editors of online journals or presses — speak to the state of digital scholarship, including issues regarding submission, tenure & promotion, professional development, and curricular importance. The majority of the session was for Q&A. I spoke about Kairos, the journal I edit.
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Tags: invited, professional convention, roundtable
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2007, October 6). Preparing for graduate school. MUSE Undergraduate Literary Studies Conference. Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL.
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This roundtable provided undergraduate students the opportunity to ask questions about how and why to apply to graduate school, what the expectations are for different kinds of schools, and how to choose which school(s) to attend.
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2006, July). Multimodal composition practices: Overviews and impacts on tenure & promotion. Virtual Reality & Real Life (VR@RL) Conference [Online].
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In this online asynchronous session, I presented results and discussion from the CCCC Survey on multimodal practices, with particular emphasis on the section about tenure and promotion issues for scholars working in digital media.
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, December 30). Roundtable on rhetoric research: Editing as rhetoric research. Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA.
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In this roundtable presentation, seven presenters produced papers or video descriptions answering the question “what is rhetoric research?” Session chairs Jenn Fishmann and Stacy Pigg mixed the individual presentations together into a whole that showcased several threads running through each presenter’s remarks. I addressed how editing digital media scholarship is a form of rhetoric research through showing the intellectual labor of editorial processes.
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2009, December 28). Value added: The shape of the e-journal. Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA.
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A poster-like session of electronic journal editors focusing on what one can do with online journals that would not be possible in print journals. I address digital media scholarship through examination of my role as editor of Kairos.
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