Dr. Cheryl E. Ball » invited

“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.

“The successful researcher”

cball — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:19:34 +0000

Roundtable (two sessions). (2010, August 16). The successful researcher. New Faculty Orientation, Illinois State University, Normal, IL.

description
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.

“The Contestation of Multimodality in New Media Scholarship”

cball — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:35:08 +0000

citation
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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Prezi presentation

Reviewer: “Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants”

cball — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:49:49 +0000

committee
Panel reviewer. (2009, Summer). National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants.

description
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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Judge: “NCTE Affiliate Website Award”

cball — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:47:13 +0000

committee
Judge. (2009). National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Affiliate Website Award.

description
Judging a dozen or so websites of local or regional NCTE affiliates based on criteria including navigation, content, speed, privacy, size, outreach, and links.

accompanying materials

link to website award information and criteria (fyi)