Computers & Writing 99

Schedule of Sessions

Friday, May 28


7:30-8:30

Ramkota Inn, Sylvan Room 2, Convention Center 2

Meeting of ACW Members and Interested Parties

9:00-10:30

SDSM&T: CB 110, 106, 204

Town Hall #1: Computers R Us? A Large-group Discussion about Who We Are and Who Our Audience Is
Moderator: Dene Grigar
Invited Participants: Michael Day, Janice Walker, Janet Cross, Alice Trupe, Cindy Wambeam, and Donna Reiss

11:00-12:30

CB 204W

1A - Forum: "Working Practices of Chronically Adept Cyber Citizens."
Coordinator: Dickie Selfe
Dickie Selfe, Gordon Coonfield, Julianne Jasken, and Matt Buss

CB 327

1B - Panel: "Distance Ed: More Than a Community of One, But How Much of a Community?"
Coordinator: Judith Kirkpatrick

  • Donna Reiss, "How to Succeed in Cyberspace: Self-Assessment and Placement Options for Online Students"
  • Judith Kirkpatrick, "When do we assess What we assess While we are teaching: Anonymous Feedback Techniques to Assess Online Teaching and Learning"

CB 204E

1C - Panel: "Network Support for Writing Across the Curriculum: Visions, Goals, and Realities."
Coordinator: Mike Palmquist

  • Mike Palmquist, "Visions of Network Support for Writing Across the Curriculum"
  • Nick Carbone, "Goals for Network Support for Writing Across the Curriculum: A Case Study"
  • Paul Barribeau, "The Realities of Network Support for Writing Across the Curriculum: A Critique"
  • Martin Rosenberg, "Network Support for Writing Across the Curriculum: A Response and Suggestion for New Directions"

Chemistry 303

1D - Panel: "The Case for Comics: Visual Texts, Visible Tropes, Visible Students."
Coordinator: John F. Ronan
John F. Ronan, and Bradley Dilger

CB 330

1E - Session: Faculty Development and Change in the Academy

  • Karen Carpenter, "Supporting Faculty as We Transmit Traditions: Stories and Sample Pedagogies from an Immersion Course."
  • Tiffany Winman, "Talking the Talk or Walking the Walk: A Survey of Changing Notions of Literacy in Higher Education Composition Courses."

CB 106

1F - Session: Writing Centers, Sustainability, and Reality

  • Danielle DeVoss, Scott Pennington, and Jill Johnson Pennington, "'Our Brains Don't Exactly Crash the Same Way CD-ROMs Do': Creating a Sustainable Culture of Computers and Writing."
  • Judith E. Adams, "Technology's Impact on Writing Centers: Traditional Writing Center Practices and the Reality of Online Tutorials."

CB 110

1G - Session: Theory, Pedagody, and Emerging Traditions

  • Michael Johanyak, "Subverting and Redefining Technology's Emerging Tradition."
  • Albert Rouzie, "Applying Play Theory to the Emergent Traditions of the CMC Composition Course."
  • Eugene Ortiz, "Transformative Pedagogy: Establishing a Tradition of Intercultural Literacy."

CB 328

1H - Session: Students as Agents, and What the Web Tells

  • Mark E. Crane, "The Politics of the Search Engine: Doppelgangers and Desire."
  • Carol Lea Clark, "Students Evaluating World Wide Web Sources."
  • Larry L. Stewart, "Stylistic Analysis in the Writing Classroom."

12:30-1:30

Lunch, on your own.
For past, current, and future chairs of the C&W conference, and for anyone else interested, open meeting on future C & W sites. Look for the 7Cs sign in the cafeteria area.

1:30-3:00

CB 106

2A - Forum: "Have Life, Won't Travel: Towards Doctoral Degrees by Distance."

Dagmar Stuehrk Corrigan and James A. Inman

CB 327

2B - Panel: "Less Visible Teachers, More Valuable Students: Empowering Student Writing in the Virtual Classroom."
Coordinator: Amy Beasley
Amy Beasley, Resha Paumier, and Donna Spehar

CB 204W

2C - Panel: "Finding Our Voices: Using Close Analysis of Electronic Discourse to Study and Create New Traditions."
Coordinator: Victoria L. Bergvall

  • Victoria L. Bergvall, "Moving from Face-to-Face to New Electronic Discourse Traditions: The Contributions of Linguistic Analysis of Computer-Mediated Discourse"
  • Cheryl Malgay-Heath, "Through a Critical Linguistic Lens: Dialogues, Monologues, and Silence within Computer-Mediated Discussion"
  • Maura Taafe, "Embodying the Talking Heads: Vision and Voice in Distance Education"

CB 328

2D - Panel: "Tradition, The Avant-garde and Electronic Pedagogy."
Coordinator: Michelle Glaros
Michelle Glaros and Michael A. Laffey

CB 204E

2E - Session: The Multiliteracy World That Faculty and Students Inhabit

  • Gregory VanHoosier-Carey, "Extending the Computers and Writing Tradition: Using Graphically Based Online Environments in the Writing Classroom."
  • Tharon W. Howard, "It's Not about Computers: A Multimedia Authoring Faculty Development Program."
  • Peg Syverson, "World's Fair: Imagined Futures."

CB 110

2F - Session: Literacies and Developmental English

  • Nancy Allen and Brenda Queen, "The Computer-based Classroom: Enhancing Traditional Theory and Practice."
  • Susan Andrus Wood, "Self-directed Learning on the Web: A New Tradition for Developmental English Students."
  • Jeff Rice, "Orality/Literacy/HTML."

CB 330

2G - Session: Rhetoric, Email, and Community

  • Paul Bender, "Is This Right: E-mail Exchange and Social Interaction Theories."
  • Patricia Webb, "Proper Emoticons and Other E-mail Signs of Affection: Electronic Boundary Crossings."
  • Ormond Loomis, "Oral Traditions and the Internet."

3:30-5:00

CB 204E

3A - Forum: "Technologically Incorrect: A Rambunctious Roundtable on Controversial Issues."
Coordinator: Todd Taylor
Todd Taylor, Gail E. Hawisher, Bill Condon, Janice R. Walker, and Keith Dorwick

CB 110

3B - Forum: "Designing and Managing Departmental Websites: A Forum for Strategic Planning."
Coordinator: Greg Siering
Cynthia Churchill, Nancy King, Douglas Eyman, Kristine Blair, Janet Cross, and Ralph Rife

CB 204W

3C - Panel: "Putting Old Philosophies in New Technologies: Making New Traditions for Online Tutoring."
Coordinator: Nick Carbone

  • Megan Doney, "Who's at the Keyboard, Writing Coach or Copy Editor?"
  • Donna LeCourt, "From Face-to-Face to Online: Philosophical Tensions in Tutoring Contexts"
  • Nick Carbone, "Learning from Experience for Training to Experience"

CB 328

3D - Panel: "Evaluating Distance Learning Courses: Technological Challenges."
Coordinator: Dawn Rodrigues
Dawn Rodrigues, Marcy Bauman, Daniel Anderson.

CB 106

3E - Session: Support for Faculty Technology Use

  • Karla Saari Kitalong, "Foreigners or Shape-shifting Border-spanners? Theorizing the Work of the Departmental Technology Specialist."
  • Barbara J. Monroe, "Going beyond 'RTFM, Stupid': Instituting an Academic Support System for New Adopters."

5:30 on

Ramkota Inn

Friday Banquet
Awards, Keynote Address: R.U. Sirius, "Writing into the Future"

9:00 on

Ramkota Inn

The Talent Show, a sometime C & W Tradition.
A multimedia night of music and skits, MCed by our own Fred Kemp. We'll be joined by the "Beyond F2F Players" on Connections MOO. If you'd like to perform, contact Cindy Wambeam or Martin Rosenberg.




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Last Updated on 18 May 1999
By Michael Day