Tag: multimedia
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
citation
Ball, Cheryl E., et al. (in progress). Talking back to teachers: Undergraduate research in multimodal composition. In Debra Journet, Cheryl E. Ball, and Ryan Trauman (Eds.) The new work of composing. Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State University Press.
abstract
This chapter is composed of 14 voices—12 undergraduates, 1 graduate student, and 1 faculty member (Cheryl E. Ball, contact author) from a multimodal composition class at Illinois State University. In a three-part chapter, we speak to the perceptions of undergraduate students’ technology use presented by scholarship, attendees at the Watson conference, and on our campus. The first section, presented as a video, reflects on conference attendees’ discussions of students who weren’t representative of the majority audience (professors and graduate students) at the conference. The second section, also presented as a video, asks how pedagogy needs to change to accommodate an increase in digital technology and what kind of cooperation is necessary between students and their teachers so both parties can effectively communicate to and learn from each other. The third section, presented as a MySpace page, argues that educators should incorporate social networks into their pedagogies because they offer a different way of composing. The sections will be presented together on the class blog, http://www.ceball.com/classes/239, where the index page will become a static Introduction to the chapter and each section will be presented as a page off the index. The benefit of hosting the site (for now) on the 239 class blog is so that readers can explore behind the scenes of our learning experience as we produced digital scholarship this semester.
status
- 12/08: proposal accepted for the collection
- 07/09: student projects revised
- 10/09: collection accepted by press
- 11/09: final chapter draft being readied for editors
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Tags: chapters in-progress, collaborative, graduate, multimedia, online, open-access, peer-reviewed, service-learning, undergraduate, undergraduate research
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
citation
Chair, Masters thesis committee. Melinda White. (2007, April). “Enlightenment Aisle Eight” [creative/multimedia]. Utah State University.
description
As chair of White’s committee, I worked with colleagues on one of the department’s first creative, digital theses, “Enlightenment Aisle Eight.” White drew on electronic literature and hypertext theory as well as creative writing to make an interactive, multimedia thesis. She also wrote an analytical essay describing the theories she used and why. After graduation, White began the interdisciplinary PhD program in Media, Art, and Text where she also has served as an assistant editor to the online literary journal, Blackbird.
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Tags: chair, creative, masters, multimedia, thesis
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
citation
Ball, Cheryl E. (2009). Logging on: #CWroundup. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 14(1). http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/14.1/loggingon/index.html
description
A partial screenshot of my tweet-based editorial column
This editorial column, written as a series of tweets (i.e., 140-character Twitter updates), describes the major discussion threads from the 2009 Computers & Writing conference at UC-Davis. One of the keynote speakers at C&W asked audience members to tweet her presentation, which started a large backchannel discussion, so the form of this column is in honor of that session. This column also lists the Kairos award winners presented at C&W (as well as that Kairos design staffers won another award for their redesign efforts), and introduces the webtexts in this issue.
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Tags: editorial column, multimedia, non-refereed, online, open-access, published
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
citation
Ball, Cheryl E. (2009). Logging on: Kairos FTW! Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy, 13(2). http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/13.2/loggingon/loggingon.html
description
This editorial column announces the journal’s win of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) Design Award, as well as discusses the current state of acceptance of digital (media) scholarship in the humanities, as evidenced by its (lack of) inclusion/understanding in organizations such as the Modern Language Association.
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Tags: editorial column, multimedia, online, open-access, published
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
citation
Ball, Cheryl E. (2008). Logging on: New design debut. Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy, 13(1). http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/13.1/loggingon/loggingon.html
description
Screenshot from new design issue
Readers will already have noticed our biggest announcement for this issue: the redesign! Years in the brainstorming phase, the redesign team of three staffers—Kathie Gossett, Karl Stolley, and Doug Eyman—made it all happen over the last year. They report on design features, including value-added components that have readers in mind, in a separate note in this issue. We thank and congratulate them for a difficult undertaking that was accomplished with little resources and next-to-no time. Wonderful job, folks!
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see also
- CELJ 2008 Design Award, based on this issue (under Awards)
Tags: award, editorial column, multimedia, online, open-access, published
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
citation
DeWitt, Scott L., & Ball, Cheryl E. (2008). Logging on: Manifestos! [Guest editors’ column]. Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy, 12(3).
http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/12.3/loggingon/index.html
description
Screenshot from Braun & Gilbert's (2008) manifesto, "This is Scholarship"
This editorial column (written for the special issue, co-guested-edited with Scott Lloyd DeWitt) introduces the reasons why we wanted to have an issue dedicated to manifestos, as cutting-edge ideas often not published in “scholarly” venues. It also introduces the 8 manifestos (including one collection that includes 9 individual manifestos) we accepted and details the peer-review criteria we used for the submissions.
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Tags: collaborative, editorial column, multimedia, online, open-access, published
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
citation
Hewett, Beth L. & Ball, Cheryl E. (2008). Computers & Writing 2007: Virtual urbanism. Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy, 12(2). http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/12.2/loggingon
abstract
Issue art taken from C&W 2007 catalog (designed by Jeff Rice?)
In this issue, the Topoi section of Kairos is pleased to showcase three webtexts originating from the 2007 Computers and Writing Conference (C&W) in Detroit: one focused on virtual case environments developed for CMS, the second focused on geoblogging as a way to present students with complex, place-contextualized writing scenarios, and the third focused on the consolations and constraints of words as writing, as speech, and as art.
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
citation
Ball, Cheryl E., & Hewett, Beth L. (2007). Digital scholarship. Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy, 12(1). http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/12.1/binder.html?loggingon/index.html
abstract
Issue art designed by Michael Edwards
In this issue, the Topoi section of Kairos is pleased to showcase two webtexts about digital scholarship, which connect to the Praxis section’s theme on tools for composing digital scholarship and the inaugural publication of the Inventio section, the aim of which is to highlight the intellectual labor of composing and reading scholarly webtexts. It’s a meta-theme on digital scholarship IN digital scholarship for this issue!
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Tags: collaborative, editorial column, multimedia, online, open-access, published
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
citation
Ball, Cheryl E., & Hewett, Beth L. (2007). Reflections and resolutions. Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy, 11(2). http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/11.2/binder.html?loggingon/
abstract
This editorial column introduces four webtexts published as part of the proceedings for the 2006 Computers & Writing conference in Lubbock, TX. Conference Chair Rich Rice overviews the conference, and the next two texts discuss issues of using content-management systems such as WebCT. The fourth text offers case studies of online research practices.
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
citation
Hewett, Beth L., & Ball, Cheryl E. (2002). Disability and technology. Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy, 7(1).
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/7.1/binder2.html?coverweb/bridge.html
description
Issue art designed by James Inman
This editorial column introduces five webtexts that discuss issues of disabilities and technologies in writing classrooms, as well as two “conversations” about disability, technology, and webtext authoring captured between several sets of authors in the CoverWeb (themed) section. (This was the first issue of Kairos Beth and I produced as new CoverWeb Editors.)
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Tags: collaborative, editorial column, multimedia, online, open-access, pre-tenure track, published
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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
description
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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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
citation
Designer. (2001). Poetry & Song: The Process of Composing [Website].
http://www.hu.mtu.edu/oldsites/poemandsong
abstract
The Poetry and Song website showcases the relationship between the written word and song. Featuring renowned writer and keyboardist Bill Payne from the group Little Feat, this site lets you explore how professionals approach the craft of songwriting. Payne shares his original poetry and discusses how those poems were transformed into song; his insights are accompanied by rare footage of three Little Feat songs performed in a solo-acoustic format. In addition, you can find a range of resources on poetry and songwriting and even create original songs by combining your lyrics with music samples provided here.
(Note: Site featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education, 5/31/2002)
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- website (site has been moved since original publication; graphic menu is disabled, so use text-only option)
Tags: collaborative, multimedia, online, open-access, pre-tenure track, website
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
citation
Designer/Producer. (2006). Sound in/as compositional space [Video + website]. Computers and Composition Online. http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/sound
abstract 
I designed this website and introductory video for the Sound special issue in C&C Online, which I guest-edited (with Byron Hawk). The video is a 2-minute mash-up/remix of the webtexts contained in the special issue and serves as our “letter from the guest editors” in a multimedia format. (Note: The video is hosted on my server because of space issues on the C&C Online server.)
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Tags: cross-listed, DV, editorial column, multimedia, online, open-access, published, webtext
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
citation
Designer/Author. (2006–present). Dr. Cheryl E. Ball: Tenure & Promotion Portfolio. http://www.ceball.com
abstract
This digital portfolio, which uses the WordPress blogging platform as its technological base, has been specifically designed (using an author-modified, open-source WordPress template) to host a living version of my CV for access by my tenure readers, students, and readers in my discipline.
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Tags: multimedia, ongoing, online, open-access
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
citation
Designer. (2007). For Allison Warner [Author], Constructing a tool for assessing scholarly webtexts. Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy, 12(1).
http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/12.1/binder.html?topoi/warner/index.html
abstract
This webtext presents a tool for assessing the scholarly value of online journal publications. It is part of a larger study that uses Kairos webtexts to investigate the scholarly nature of online texts. The goal of this larger study is to deliver a rubric as an instrument to facilitate the acceptance of online texts within English Studies as evidence of scholarship for professional advancement. In order to understand more fully how an online text can be recognized and valued for its scholarly legitimacy, it is crucial to explore the nature of successful (published) online scholarship. The assessment tool presented in this webtext is comprised of questions that help to reveal commonalities and deviations in the function and value of traditional (print) scholarly conventions toward defining an emerging genre of online scholarship. This webtext is designed using a web browser interface that should be familiar to many web readers. Web browsers enable readers to view web pages and provide a gateway to finding information online. This webtext was intentionally designed to draw attention to the interactive ways in which readers can approach texts that are created in or remediated for the Web. This design is mimetic to my thesis, that scholarly webtexts need both familiar and new assessment tools in order to be valued by academic stakeholders.
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Tags: collaborative, multimedia, online, open-access, peer-reviewed, published, webtext
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