All presenters are encouraged to involve participants in discussion as much as possible. These discussions will hopefully spill over into the coffee breaks and lunches.

There is a possibility that some sessions will be videotaped to accomodate faculty who want to attend, but have conflicts. If you are presenting and do NOT want to be videotaped, please let Michael Day know.

Handouts of any sort related to computers and writing -- software lists, bibliographies, webliographies, helpful internet discussion groups, assignments, you name it -- are encouraged from everyone attending this conference, not just the presenters. Although it will be best to make copies beforehand, we do have a limited budget for copying.

While few people doubt the astonishing influence that computer-mediated communications and the Internet is having on the society at large and will no doubt have on formal education, most teachers continue to be mystified as to how computers and networks will affect what students and teachers actually do in instructional situations. Professor Kemp will present not only the principles that guide the development of such computer-based learning activities, but also the specific, practical, integrated instructional tasks he has concluded have been the most effective over his ten years of curricular development for computer-based classrooms, departmental programs, and distance education. Whether you leave his presentation enthusiastically pro-technology or quite skeptical, you should nevertheless leave knowing clearly how computer-mediated communications is presumed to support real learning in real people through specific activities.

Dr. Cogdill will be thinking about how first-year writing students (left to their own devices) use on-line sources like the Web, EAI, and CD ROM encyclopedias, and discussing the critical literacies for finding, evaluating, and documenting Internet sources. She will also have some handouts addressing the new searching and documenting strategies and offer a few useful Websites for teachers. She would really like for everybody to contribute some good "one of my students really did do this" stories.

Many teachers believe that integrating computer-mediated instruction into their courses builds a strong sense of community and facilitates knowledge construction. Yet the effectiveness and efficiency of electronic dialogues is still being debated. This presentation will examine the interaction of three classes in a composition theory cyberseminar: from North Dakota State University, Cal State University at San Bernadino, and Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI). To what extent did the cyberseminar facilitate or hinder interaction among teachers and students? To what extent did it help build knowledge among teachers and peers? Who learned from whom?

This presentation will demonstrate a series of interactive, student-centered multimedia grammar/mechanics units. In addition to the computerized demonstration, the presenters will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of creating in-house software and will provide a handout summarizing the discussion.

Commonspace demonstration if any are interested. This may take up some of the break time.

This presentation will exemplify how Valley City State University's faculty integrate CAI and Portfolio Development in the composition courses. Included will be a PowerPoint presentation of students' work and anecdotal descriptions of how notebook computer use and the portfolio approach to teaching writing have changed students' learning. Handouts will be provided of departmental syllabi, sample assignments, criteria rubrics, and student self-assessment essays.

The founding editor of Research in Word Processing Newsletter, an international monthly lasting from May of 1983 to May 1989, will discuss the past, present, and future of the computer's impact on academic writing programs, including new directions for Web-based, Internet-driven, and feature-rich environments.

This presentation will include highlights of a fairly typical, yet typically successful Daedalus Integrated Writing Environment (DIWE) Interchange session on the topic of genetic engineering. Dr. McDonald will show how a group of students who had been unable to work together in a traditional discussion format were able, with the assistance of their instructor, to develop ideas on a complex topic in an informal, yet challenging environment where writing and discussion complement one another in interesting ways. The presentation will include a more general assessment of the unique benefits that the DIWE Interchange affords.

The Internet has become a popular medium for communication and research among our students, yet we all know that there are pitfalls and problems with the ways people behave on the Internet. As teachers of communication, we need to remind our students of the ethical problems which may occur among people who communicate in text alone with people they never see.

Integrating computers and networks does not occur without problems. The learning curve, disorientation, and technophobia all affect our students in varying ways, and we need strategies to work through these problems. Further, we may need to complement computer and online activities with paper-based and face-to-face work, and to help students individualize their uses of technology.

Michael Day will also have his sentence revision program, Stylex, loaded on a portable Macintosh, ready to demonstrate if anyone is interested.

Dr. Gellis will examine some of the common questions asked by teachers about using the Internet. Topics covered will include finding information of interest to teachers of English, evaluating information, and citing Internet resources. Participants will use the world-wide web to find, view, and evaluate sources.

While many educators have heard of a MOO, and a few have ventured into one, many are still leery of this synchronous computer environment. To begin to alleviate concerns, Dr. Haas will present an introduction to the MOO as a teaching and learning tool, comparing it to other synchronous tools. He will also provide a hands-on demonstration, highlighting the educational benefits and pedagogical approaches to incorporating a MOO into writing courses and writing assignments.

Daedalus Integrated Writing Environment, and possibly other programs.

Kathy Antonen

Humanities Department

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

501 East Saint Joseph Street

Rapid City, South Dakota 57701

(605) 394-1252

kantonen@silver.sdsmt.edu

Alfred Boysen

Humanities Department

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

501 East Saint Joseph Street

Rapid City, South Dakota 57701

(605) 394-2479

aboysen@silver.sdsmt.edu

Sharon Cogdill

Department of English

106 Riverview

St. Cloud State University

St. Cloud, Minnesota 56301

(320) 654-5472

scogdill@tigger.stcloud.msus.edu

http://www.stcloud.msus.edu/~scogdill

Michael Day

Humanities Department

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

501 East Saint Joseph Street

Rapid City, South Dakota 57701

(605) 394-5100

mday@silver.sdsmt.edu

http://www.sdsmt.edu/courses/is/hum375/mday.html

James Feiszli

Humanities Department

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

501 East Saint Joseph Street

Rapid City, South Dakota 57701

(605) 394-5101

jfeiszli@silver.sdsmt.edu

Mark Gellis

Humanities Department

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

501 East Saint Joseph Street

Rapid City, South Dakota 57701

(605) 394-2686

mgellis@silver.sdsmt.edu

Joan Latchaw

Department of English

Minard Hall 320

North Dakota State University

Fargo, North Dakota 58105

(701) 231-7147

latchaw@plains.nodak.edu

Josephine Lee

Humanities Department

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

501 East Saint Joseph Street

Rapid City, South Dakota 57701

(605) 394-5376

jlee@silver.sdsmt.edu

Fred Kemp

Department of English

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, Texas 79409-3091

(806) 742-2521

ykfok@ttacs.ttu.edu

http://english.ttu.edu/acw/fred/

Michael McDonald

Humanities Department

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

501 East Saint Joseph Street

Rapid City, South Dakota 57701

(605) 394-5197

mmcdonal@silver.sdsmt.edu

Bradford Morgan

Humanities Department

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

501 East Saint Joseph Street

Rapid City, South Dakota 57701

(605) 394-1245

bmorgan@silver.sdsmt.edu

Sue Shirley

Humanities Department

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

501 East Saint Joseph Street

Rapid City, South Dakota 57701

(605) 394-2482

sshirley@silver.sdsmt.edu

Judy Sneller

Humanities Department

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

501 East Saint Joseph Street

Rapid City, South Dakota 57701

(605) 394-1246

jsneller@silver.sdsmt.edu