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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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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.
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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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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, October 16). Digital scholarship roundtable. Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.
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In this session, five presenters — all editors of online journals or presses — speak to the state of digital scholarship, including issues regarding submission, tenure & promotion, professional development, and curricular importance. The majority of the session was for Q&A. I spoke about Kairos, the journal I edit.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2006, October 21). Report on a CCCC-sponsored survey of multimodal composition practices (But where are the two-year schools?). TYCA-West, Park City, UT.
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A presentation on the results from the national CCCC Research Initiative grant survey about multimodal composition practices, with a particular focus on why there are so few community colleges represented in the survey sample. Time was left for audience response to gauge future projects assessing two-year school participation in multimodal composition.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2006, October 13). The role of new media in student narratives. Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.
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In this presentation, I discuss some student-produced new media texts from a class I taught called Perspective on Writing and Rhetoric: Multimodal Composition, in which the students created a series of progressively more multimodal projects (written text, audio, static image, vog, video documentary). I discussed how students transformed the idea of “narrative” through unexpected visual techniques, especially in their filmic projects.
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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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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2006, March 23). Revisiting the usefulness of current multimodal and new media theories. Conference on College Composition & Communication, Chicago, IL.
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In this presentation, I discussed two sets of rubrics posited by new media scholars, Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen in their book Multimodal Discourse and Lev Manovich in his book A Language of New Media. I argue that these rubrics are only so useful for rhetoric and composition scholars because they don’t focus on rhetorical ways of understanding digital media texts.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2005, October 21). Designing educational spaces for students & colleagues. Council on Programs in Technical & Scientific Communication, Lubbock, TX.
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In this roundtable, I focused on issues of being a new faculty member in a department and how I created a research identity that was transparent, if a little “quirky,” so that colleagues could begin to recognize my research agenda.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2005, June 17). Hackers, schmoozers, & wonder: Rhetoric, technology, & aesthetics in new media spaces. Computers & Writing, Palo Alto, CA.
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In this session, I presented on a “rhetoric of wow,” drawing on Geoffrey Sirc’s (2001) notion of a Happenings pedagogy and Philip Fisher’s (2003) poetics of wonder and thought. I apply that rhetoric to a student-produced video poem, to offer the audience a method of analysis/assessment of digital media texts.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2005, March 19). Throwing teachers over the top rope: The status of new media pedagogy in composition studies. Conference on College Composition & Communication, San Francisco, CA.
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Presenters in this session reported on the research questions, methodologies, and initial results from a CCCC Research Survey on multimodal composition.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2009, March 12). B-Movie virgin sacrifice: Digital scholarship in a print-tenure world. Conference on College Composition & Communication, San Francisco, CA.
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In this presentation, I respond to pressures that tenure and promotion evaluators do not know how to read digital scholarship (MLA “Evaluating Scholarship” Report, 2006) and do not value the peer-review system used to evaluate digital scholarship (Ball, 2008; Jenson & Olson, 2009). Such devaluation affects the choices that tenure-track scholars make regarding in what media they can and should produce their scholarship (Anderson et al, 2006), which leads to a cycle of non-production and continued non-evaluation of new media. To save hirself from the print-tenure volcano, Speaker 2 foregrounds production as an analytical method by screening a video tutorial composed to help evaluators read new media scholarship.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E., with Matthew Wendling. (2009, June 20). ‘When we ask ourselves these questions, what will our answers be?’: Sustainable teaching and learning through co-directed undergraduate and faculty digital scholarship. Computers & Writing, University of California–Davis.
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This presentation tracks two ecologies: (1) an undergraduate multimodal composition class producing digital scholarship for a digital book collection, and (2) the teacher’s work on that digital collection alongside the production of her tenure e-portfolio. Issues in digital scholarship transcend student–teacher barriers and provide sustainable ways for digital media scholars to connect their undergraduate curricula with their research lives. The presentation concludes with response-comments from an undergraduate student, Matthew Wendling, who worked on these issues with the instructor.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2009, December 28). Value added: The shape of the e-journal. Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA.
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A poster-like session of electronic journal editors focusing on what one can do with online journals that would not be possible in print journals. I address digital media scholarship through examination of my role as editor of Kairos.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E, & Rickly, Becky. (2010, March 17). Mentoring electronically and from a distance. Coalition of Women Scholars. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Louisville, KY.
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In roundtable style, Rickly and Ball will offer suggestions for how to distance-mentor (and be mentored) through use of information communication technologies.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Selfe, Cynthia; Kemp, Fred; Inman, James, & Ball, Cheryl E. (2006, February 18). What defines computers and writing as a discipline? Computers & Writing Online Conference.
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In a roundtable keynote, presented in a synchronous MOO (multi-user, object-oriented chat/game platform), the four presenters address multi-layered questions: Is Computers & Writing truly a discipline? What distinguishes it from the related disciplines of Composition & Rhetoric or Technical Communication? What is the research and theory that inform its teaching and practice? The panelists take questions from the audience as well.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, October 18). Narrating the intellectual labor of the new work of scholarship. Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.
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Each presenter (Ball with Andrea Lunsford, Jonathan Alexander, Scott DeWitt, Charles Kostelnick, Bump Halbritter, & Cynthia Selfe) had 10 minutes to “pitch” their concepts for what constitutes the ‘new work’ of composing. As this was the last plenary session of the conference, Ball served to sum up the other plenary sessions into major threads, focusing on how each previous presenter addressed (explicitly or implicitly) the intellectual labor of digital scholarship.
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