Dr. Cheryl E. Ball » local http://www.ceball.com/tenure Associate Professor of New Media Studies Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:43:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 “New media in the writing classroom” http://www.ceball.com/tenure/2010/08/17/new-media-in-the-writing-classroom/ http://www.ceball.com/tenure/2010/08/17/new-media-in-the-writing-classroom/#comments Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:12:42 +0000 cball http://www.ceball.com/tenure/?p=1158 Keynote Speaker/Workshop Leader. (2010, August 17). Strengthening student writing@TSU: New media in the writing classroom. Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN.

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

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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.

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Appointed Member. (2008–09). New Leadership Board of the Economic Development Council, Bloomington-Normal, IL.

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The New Leadership Board (NLB) is an advisory group of people ages 17-39 who work with the Economic Development Council leadership to establish an additional set of priorities for the economic future of the Bloomington-Normal area. The goal is to create a generational dialogue and provide ongoing input to the area’s business, economic and political leadership regarding these emerging generations’ concerns, bringing a voice to this untapped resource. Split into four half-day sessions, NLB members researched and wrote white papers on the following topics:

  • What is the future of the workplace?
  • Who’s the boss?
  • The Value of Technology
  • Quality of Life

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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., &  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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