Tag: mentoring
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
First opponent for Jon Olav Eikenes. (defended Dec. 22, 2010). “Navimation: A Socio-Cultural Exploration of Kinetic Interface Design.” Institute of Design, Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway.
description
As first opponent on this Norwegian disputation (completed in English), I was responsible for
- reading a completed draft of the dissertation,
- writing up a report outlining why (and whether) I thought it was defendable
- working with the examination committee to create a topic for Eikenes’ “public trial” [presentation based on his dissertation]
- articulating a set of questions to pose during his disputation [defense]
- deciding, in consultation with the research committee, whether the candidate would pass the defense.
Tags: dissertation, doctoral, international, mentoring, opponent, reader
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Monday, August 16th, 2010
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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Friday, October 30th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E., & Ellison, Katherine [Mentors]. (2007–present). English Studies graduates job market workshops. Illinois State University.
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In 2007-08, Ellison and I mentored finishing PhD students through weekly meetings to guide them through the academic job market process. In 2008-09, we set up a blog to contain much of the advice we had previously distributed verbally in meetings and through individual emails and, thus, began having twice-a-month workshops to do peer-review of CVs, cover letters, mock interviews, and practice job talks. We have continued that set-up in 2009-10, as students have begun to refer to the “job blog” more regularly.
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Tags: graduate, mentoring, university service
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
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Advisor. (2009, Summer). Digital scholarship research and revision project (Matthew Wendling, undergraduate; Jonathan Myers, Masters). Illinois State University.
description
Wendling and Myers worked under my guidance to revise the digital media chapter that undergraduates in my Fall 2008 Multimodal Composition class authored for inclusion in the digital book I am co-editing, The New Work of Composing. Wendling’s work was supported through a Research and Sponsored Programs fellowship for undergraduate research.
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Tags: masters, mentoring, service-learning, undergraduate, undergraduate research
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
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Advisor. Kairos editing internship, Illinois State University.
description
PhD students at Illinois State (and a Masters student at Utah State) have the occasional opportunity to be a research assistant for the journal I edit, Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy. Depending on the journal’s needs at the time, students’ technical and theoretical skills, as well as how long they will be assigned to the journal based on departmental teaching needs, students are guided to perform different projects from copy- and design-editing to non-production projects such as designing promotional materials. Depending on the project, I create training documents or verbally guide students through the process.
students/projects
- Kyle Jensen (Spring 2009), created promotional website for editorial projects, including Kairos, in department
- Devon Fitzgerald (Spring 2008), worked on copy- and design-editing in production cycle
- Susan Baxter (2004-06: volunteer), compiled a database-ready bibliography of citation contents for Kairos‘s first ten years of publication
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Tags: advisor, doctoral, masters, mentoring, service-learning
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
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Chair, Masters thesis committee. Susan Baxter. (2007, July). “Online Citation and New Media Scholarship: Kairos and the Case for Online Publication.” Utah State University.
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As chair of Baxter’s Masters thesis committee, I guided her through writing an article-length thesis with an accompanying 72-page appendix that included her data. She spent a semester archiving all citations within Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy and then coding them according to genre type so that she could compare the ways Kairos webtexts cited particular genres with other studies on the ways print articles cited those same (or different) genres. As of 2009, Baxter currently works full-time as a technical writer.
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Tags: chair, masters, mentoring, thesis
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
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Dissertation reader (non-voting ex-officio). Carrie Lamanna. (2007, July). “Disciplining Identities: Feminism, New Media, and 21st Century Research Practices.” University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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My role was to provide feedback to Lamanna during the dissertation defense, with specific attention to the relationship between her written chapters and her digital media chapters. (She was presenting some of the first all-digital chapters in a dissertation, so I was on hand to help explain their scholarly significance, if needed.) As of 2009, Lamanna is an assistant professor and Writing Center Director at Colorado State University. Her digital dissertation process opened a larger research study for her (with a colleague from UIUC, Kathie Gossett, with whom I work on Kairos) about digital dissertations in graduate schools and implementing digital media coursework into graduate curricula. They have presented at multiple conferences on this topic.
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Tags: dissertation, doctoral, mentoring, reader
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
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Dissertation reader (non-voting ex-officio). Jason Palmeri. (2007, June). “Multimodality and Composition Studies, 1960–Present.” Ohio State University.
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My role during the defense was to to ask questions as needed and provide feedback on publication venues for Palmeri’s dissertation. He has turned some of the background knowledge from his dissertation into a collaborative multimedia submission on invention to the digital book collection I am editing, and is turning the majority of the diss into print articles and/or a book. As of 2009, he is an assistant professor of English at Miamu University of Ohio.
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Tags: dissertation, doctoral, mentoring, reader
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E., et al. (2009, April 17). Writing for Publication. College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Mentoring Session. Illinois State University.
description
Two hour overview and Q&A on how to publish, provided to new tenure-track faculty by journal editors in the College of Arts and Sciences at ISU. Seven editors on the panel, each presenting a 5-minute overview about a different aspect of the publishing process.
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Tags: mentoring, professional development, roundtable, workshop
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
citation
Ball, Cheryl E, & Ellison, Katherine. (2009, May). Sigma Tau Delta Award for Mentoring. Illinois State University.
description
Dr. Ellison and I have been leading job-market workshops for graduating PhD students since Fall of 2007. We were recognized for our mentorship in these volunteer positions.
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Tags: honor, local, mentoring, teaching award
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E. [Researcher], & Wendling, Matthew [Fellow]. (2009, Summer). A case study of revision processes in student-authored digital media scholarship. Research and Sponsored Programs Undergraduate Research Fellow Grant, Illinois State University. $3,500.
description
I authored this undergraduate research fellowship application for Matthew Wendling to work over the summer on a chapter for the edited collection I’m working on, The New Work of Composing. He was revising three student texts from the chapter submission, “Talking Back To Teachers: Undergraduate Research in Digital Media,” which Wendling helped to co-author with his fellow undergraduates in my Fall 2008 Multimodal Composition course.
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- “Talking Back to Teachers” (under Chapters)
Tags: fellowships, local, mentoring, undergraduate research
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
citation
Ball, Cheryl E. (2007, May 18). How to get published in an online journal: An editors’ roundtable. Computers and Writing, Detroit, MI.
abstract
This roundtable/mentoring session offered audience members a chance to hear from online journal editors what distinguishes each of their publications from the other as well as basic principles for querying and submitting to online journals in rhetoric and composition. Time was left for each journal editor to meet in small groups with interested authors for a Q&A.
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Tags: mentoring, professional development, roundtable, session chair
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2006, May 26). First year out: Time- and face-management tips for junior faculty members. Computers & Writing, Lubbock, TX.
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In this session, several newly hired tenure-track faculty members present advice, suggestions, and tips for managing the transition to their schools. I focused on how to balance professional and personal roles through time-management practices and on how to make sure your new colleagues get to know you, through what I called “face-management” practices.
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Tags: mentoring, professional convention, professional development, session chair
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
citation
Ball, Cheryl E., & Blair, Kristine. (2009, October 23). Publishing 2.0: New rules for new scholars. English Department, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM.
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In a shared speaker-series lecture, Ball & Blair discuss the state of digital scholarship, roles of peer-review and mentoring, issues in assessing and evaluating digital scholarship for tenure and promotion purposes, and ways to gain professional development through digital media for rising, junior, and senior scholars in English studies. After the talk, Ball & Blair met individually with graduate students for a two-hour Q&A session.
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Tags: invited, lecture, mentoring
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
citation
Ball, Cheryl E., & Hewett, Beth L. (2003). Issues of new media. Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy, 8(1). http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/8.1/binder2.html?coverweb/index.html
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Issue art designed by Mark Bildeaux (an undergraduate student of Cheryl's, at Michigan Tech)
This editorial column introduces five cutting-edge (in 2003, and some still) webtexts for the new media issue of Kairos. The column also discusses the history and reasons for choosing new media for this issue, definitions of new media that focus on how we distinguished it from other genres of online scholarship, why new media is necessary to explore in scholarship, and the changes in editorial processes we struggled with because of the new media texts that were submitted. (Historical note: This issue of Kairos launched my research agenda into new media scholarship.)
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Tags: collaborative, editorial column, mentoring, multimedia, online, open-access, pre-tenure track, published, undergraduate
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