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Ball, Cheryl E. (2005, November 18). The state of multimodal composition pedagogies. Text, Image, Networks, & Culture Group, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.

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As the English department at VCU introduced a new, transdisciplinary PhD program in Media, Art, and Text, I was invited to present results from my recently completed national survey of multimodal teacher-scholars.

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see also

• Integrating multimodality in composition curricula (under Peer-Reviewed Articles)
• Data from the CCCC-Sponsored “Survey of Multimodal Pedagogies in Writing Programs” (under Technical Reports)
• Uncovering Theories & Practices of Multiliteracies & New Media Pedagogies (under Grants)

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Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, January 25). What’s the point of new media?  Evaluating transitional, digital scholarship. Digital Literacies Group, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL.

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In this presentation, I address the recent MLA Task Force report, Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion (2006), which acknowledges an increasing need for thoughtful new strategies of evaluating digital scholarship in departments of English. I look at a contemporary heuristic (Warner, 2007) for reading and evaluating “webtexts” (texts that convey most of their meaning through text and hyperlinks) and compare them to “new media texts” that use multimodal elements to enact and convey meaning. The presentation is exploratory–just like the new media texts that it investigates–and discussion/interaction from the audience is encouraged.

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Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, November 10). Scholarship, art, or fun?!: Interdisciplinary perspectives on digital publications. Miami University of Ohio, Oxford, OH.

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In this presentation, I discuss the contexts and definitions of digital scholarship, and ask the audience about their assumptions of such work. Then, using a  sample scholarly webtext, ask the audience to help evaluate it.

accompanying materials

• Scholarship, Art, or Fun?!

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Ball, Cheryl E. (2009, April 2). Doing your own P.R.: Developing online faculty and staff portfolios to disseminate teaching, research, and service activity. The University of Findlay, Findlay, OH.

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Cheryl E. Ball will discuss the changing landscape of scholarship in the digital humanities, including examining types of digital scholarship that will change the way tenure and promotion reviews happen at universities. As part of this discussion, particular attention will be given to disseminating one’s teaching, research/creative activities, and service through an electronic portfolio.

accompanying materials

• Doing Your Own P.R. (Faculty & Staff Portfolios)

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