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Ball, Cheryl E. (2005, June 7 & 9). Collaborative web sites; Teaching & reading new media. Computers in Writing-Intensive Classrooms (CIWIC), Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI.
description CIWIC was an internationally recognized two-week workshop to teach college-level instructors how to teach writing using digital technologies and multiple media. These two workshops focused on (1) how to consider collaborators as an audience when building websites, including consideration of information architecture, filenaming conventions, etc. , and (2) how to use rhetorical analysis as a basis for interpreting multimodal texts, which can be useful to also assign students to compose such texts.
description A workshop for authors specifically interested in composing for Kairos, informing them about our technical style guide and working with them in small groups to mentor them through the brainstorm and design stages of digital media scholarship.
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2009, July 13–August 7). The New Work of Composing: Examining writing and editorial processes in digital media scholarship. Vectors-NEH Summer Fellowship. Institute for Multimedia Literacy, University of Southern California. $5,000.
proposal description For this Vectors–NEH institute, I plan to complete a full, first draft of the afterword to a digital, multimodal edited collection (of which I am co-editor) under consideration with Computers and Composition Digital Press (ccdigitalpress.org). The afterword of this e-book, The New Work of Composing, addresses how (and, to some extent, whether) composing and editing processes change when the intellectual work of the “book” is performed in a media-rich environment. I will examine (a) my own processes of composing the afterword, and (b) the composing (and revision) processes of a number of the book’s authors who are also producing born-digital work.
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Arola, Kristin L., & Ball, Cheryl E. (2007, May). Kairos Best Webtext: Award Finalist for “A conversation: From ‘They call me doctor?!’ to tenure.”
description The Kairos Best Webtext Awards are presented annually at the Computers and Writing conference for the best academic webtext published in the previous academic year (the webtext does not have to be published in Kairos). (Note: Since 2006, when an earlier webtext of mine was nominated for this award while I was editor, the Communications Editors of Kairos have managed the entire awards process, to ensure fairness in judging, which is done by editorial board members and guest judges from the field of digital writing studies.)
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2007, May 31–June 12). Visiting Scholar in Digital Media and Composition. English Department, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. $500.
description As a Visiting Scholar in Digital Media and Composition at OSU, I will interview participants from a range of backgrounds and institutions about their reading/meaning-making abilities when it comes to new media scholarship. plan on using one or two sample texts, which I will ask participants to read in advance of our interview, and I will have a set list of interview questions to ask them regarding how they interpret the text’s argument(s) through multiple modes. I plan to follow-up these questions by asking them to reflect on their reading process so that they can discuss the resources they used (theory, practice, etc.) to make sense of the text under examination; for suggestions regarding what they believe they would need in order to better/further interpret such texts; and what their department heads or tenure committees might need to read the same texts.
description A one-hour documentary film that interviews 22 rhetoric and composition specialists about the top issues in writing studies and the teaching of writing. This resource is freely available as a professional development resource through Bedford-St. Martin’s Press.
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McCorkle, Ben [Producer]. (2007, June 5). Visiting scholars in digital media: Cheryl Ball [Video]. Ohio State University. http://tinyurl.com/dmac-interview-ball
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Short interview (12:29) with Cheryl Ball (Illinois State University), part of the ongoing series featuring Visiting Scholars in Digital Media and Composition at the OSU Department of English. Outline: I. On a digital tenure portfolio. II. Defining the terms in digital writing studies. III. Explaining this work to students. IV. Why I attend the DMAC institute. V. Advice for new multimedia teacher-scholars.
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by Doug Dangler. (2008, February). Digital media and digital scholarship [Podcast]. Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing: Ohio State University. http://cstw.osu.edu/podcasts/mp3/ball.mp3
description A 60-minute audio podcast interview by Doug Dangler (Associate Director for the Center of the Study of Teaching and Writing at OSU) about my work with digital media scholarship.
Screenshot from Inside Higher Education article where I am quoted
Interviewed for a news article about the Pew Internet and American Life report on “Writing, Technology, and Teens,” which includes statistics of student/teen use of social networking and texting as part of their writing lives.
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Interviewed by Fred Kemp & Rich Rice. (2008, September 5). What is multimodal composition? [Podcast]. Smarttcast. http://www.smarttcast.com/cheryl_ball.m4a
description This 60-minute audio interview, hosted by Drs. Fred Kemp and Rich Rice of Texas Tech University, contains a Q&A about multimodal composition.
