Tag: national
Saturday, November 26th, 2011
citation
Mahon, Wade. (2011). Multimodal composition & the rhetoric of teaching: A conversation with Cheryl Ball. Issues in Writing 18(2).
abstract
Cheryl Ball is an Associate Professor of New Media Studies at Illinois State University where she teaches courses on multimodal composition as well as digital media, composition theory, and digital publishing. She gives talks and workshops on these topics around the country and has published and collaborated on a number of articles, edited collections, book chapters, and webtexts as well. She has also co-authored with Kristin Arola a textbook, Visualizing Composition. In addition to her research and teaching, she is also the editor of the electronic journal Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. IW editor Wade Mahon spoke with Ball by phone on June 23, 2011.
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Tags: closed-access, national, published
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
Hampton Press (academic book)
Learning Point Associates (online instructional material)
McGraw-Hill Higher Education (textbook; handbook; instructional website)
Pearson/Longman Publishers (textbook)
Prentice Hall (handbook)
Sage Publications (textbook proposal)
Tags: consultant, national, professional service, textbook reviewing
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E.; Eyman, Douglas; Sorapure, Madeleine; & Gossett, Katherine. (2009, June 18). Composing Digital Scholarship: A Workshop for Authors. Computers & Writing Conference, Davis, CA.
description
This half-day workshop will guide and encourage authors interested in composing digital scholarship for online journals. Editors will discuss authoring processes from the beginning of research projects to the publication stage, including visualizing your design to add value to your research project, storyboarding/prototyping, creating sustainable and accessible designs, querying editors, finding local resources, submitting webtexts, and revising in-progress work. Although the workshop’s primary emphasis will be on webtext-sized digital scholarship (for journals like Kairos), authors interested in larger projects such as online collections and digital books will also benefit from this workshop. The editors in attendance can also speak to individual authors’ needs regarding the teaching and evaluating of digital scholarship.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2005–present, May/June). Careers in Computers & Writing. Graduate Research Network, Computers & Writing Conferences.
description
I have been moderator of these half-day, pre-conference workshops at the annual Computers and Writing conferences since 2005. Careers in Computers & Writing started as a job-market advice workshop for graduate students and morphed over the years (by request) into a professionalization workshop across academic ranks that now includes advice and suggestions about choosing grad schools and dissertation committees, navigating the job market (at all ranks), and planning for continued professional development after one gets a job through tenure and promotion processes.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E., & Blair, Kris. (2009, June 11). Digital publishing. Digital Media and Composition Institute. Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
description
A workshop session where Blair and Ball overview the state of digital scholarship, including how to publish in online journals in rhetoric and composition, how to include digital media projects in graduate curricula, and how to consider professional development in digital media regardless of academic rank.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E. [Instructor]. (2009, June 9). Designing multimedia projects. Digital Media and Composition Institute. Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
description
A process-based look at designing multimedia texts using rhetorical principles, focusing on audience and purpose in specific technological contexts.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, June 2–15). Visiting Staff Member, Digital Media and Composition Institute. Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
description
Assisting OSU staff in instructing institute participants in composing digital media. Also led a professionalization workshop for attending graduate students, and offered one-on-one help for participants as they worked on their digital media projects.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2007, June 7). Introduction to design. Digital Media and Composition Institute. Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
description
Workshop asking participants (writing teachers) to think about designing multimedia texts as a rhetorical act — with specific colors, layouts, font choices, etc., meeting a particular text’s purpose and audiences’ needs — using blog templates as an example.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
citation
Ball, Cheryl E. [Discussion Leader]. (2007, March 21). Electronic written, aural, & visual expressions (E-WAVE): Students’ compositions/teachers’ pedagogies. Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, NY.
description
I participated as one of about 13 discussion leaders hosting poster-like presentations on using digital media and technologies in English classes. Workshop included Q&A with participants in a pre-conference workshop setting.
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