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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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Saturday, November 26th, 2011
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2012) Assessing scholarly multimedia: A rhetorical genre studies approach. Technical Communication Quarterly, 21(1), 1-17.
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This article describes what scholarly multimedia (i.e., webtexts) are and how one teacher-editor has students compose these texts as part of an assignment sequence in her writing classes. The article shows how one set of assessment criteria for scholarly multimedia—based on the Institute for Multimedia Literacy’s parameters (see Kuhn, Johnson, & Lopez, 2010) for assessing honor students’ multimedia projects—are used to give formative feedback to students’ projects.
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Sunday, September 5th, 2010
Ball, Cheryl E., & Arola, Kristin L. (2010). visualizing composition (2nd ed.). Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press. http://ix.bedfordstmartins.com [password required]
description [the 'cover' blurb]
ix visualizing composition is a concrete introduction to the fundamentals of multimodal composition. Each tutorial moves through the following three steps:
- Define. Illustrated definitions help you visualize principles of layout, design and composition: element, contrast, purpose, text, framing, audience, alignment, context, emphasis, color, proximity, organization, and sequence.
- Analyze. Guided readings of real-world texts—such as photographs, movie clips, comics, and animation—model how writers of different texts put theory into practice.
- Respond. Interactive assignments invite you to make your own rhetorical choices—determining font face or color, image hue, and the placement and organizational of visual and textual elements—and to write about the impact those choices have.
Note: This is the second edition of ix, the CD-ROM Arola and I co-authored in 2004. In this version, 9 of 13 tutorials (broken down by terms associated with rhetorical design choices) have been completely revised, with new and more multimodal examples and analyses.
Tags: closed-access, editorially-reviewed, multimedia, online, published, SoTL
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
citation
Lupton, Ellen. (2009, January 13). Writing 101: Visual or verbal? Voice: AIGA Journal of Design. http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/writing-101-visual-or-verbal
description
Interviewed by renowned graphic designer and teacher, Ellen Lupton, on the role of design in first-year writing classes. Voice is the online newsletter of the professional association for design.
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
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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
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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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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
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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
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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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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
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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
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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
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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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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
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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/
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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
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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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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
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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. (2003–04). Technobabe Times [Newsletter]. Michigan Technological University.
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I was the newsletter designer for this print publication. The newsletter was an on-campus and community feminist publication for women and men who worked with technology, distributing local and national news and local opinions and information about women’s causes such as health care and equality. (On a campus with an 5:1 male to female student ratio, a feminist newsletter was an important campus outreach activity.)
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
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Production Manager. (2003–04). C Literary Magazine. Michigan Technological University.
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I started this 64-page, perfect-bound undergraduate literary magazine to publish winners from the campus’s annual undergraduate literary contest. Students in my Publications and Information Management (HU 3630) class created the magazine’s title and design and performed basic editing on the collection. I supervised their work and performed final design revisions and editing for the press publication.
[Note: C Literary Magazine was published from 2003 until 2006, when a faculty member transitioned it into a national journal, PANK Magazine (personal correspondence, M. Bartely Seigel, 2007).]
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