UPCOMING EVENTS:

March 21, 2007

Association for Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW)
New York, NY

Check out the WIDE Research Team ATTW poster on the Literacy Resource Exchange!

March 22-24, 2007

Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)
New York, NY

Click here for a schedule of WIDE affiliated faculty and graduate student presentations at ATTW & CCCC

RECENT PAST EVENTS:

Stay tuned for the official roll out of the newly redesigned Capital Area Community Voices Website (CACVoices)!: http://cacvoices.wide.msu.edu/

February 16-17 2007

Workshop on HCI & Information Design to Communicate Complex Information
University of Memphis, TN

James Porter presents on "Rhetoric and the Long Tail: How Digital Economics Changes Invention, Production, and Interaction."
Jeff Grabill presents on "The Expertise and Complexity of Citizen Knowledge Work or A Tale of How Information Technologies Move from Being Good Collaborators to Poor Collaborators."

Barbara Mirel is the keynote speaker.

January 27, 2007

"Vox Pop" Community Media Workshop
Tell your story on the air at the vox pop workshop!  Get first hand experience with trained professionals in interviewing for radio, using audio equipment, writing for radio, voicing, and using digital editing software!  Presented by the Capital Area Community Media Center.  10:00AM-5:00PM . FREE.  WKAR Station, 283 Communication Arts and Sciences Building, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824.  To register, call Kendall Leon at (517) 353-9170 or email kendallleon@gmail.com.

November 17, 2006
NCTE Conference, Nashville, TN
Grace Berhardt, Michael McLeod and Stephanie Sheffield present on "Digital Literacies in the Classroom: Integration, Implementation and Assessment"

November 16-November 18, 2006
Alliance for Community Media “Building Community Through Media" Conference, Michigan State University
Matt Penniman presents on the Capital Area Community Media Center: http://www.wide.msu.edu/mediaconf/

November 14, 2006
World Usability Day 2006
Jeff Grabill, Kendall Leon, Matt Penniman, Stacy Pigg, Suzanne Webb, Shreelina Ghosh and Lisa Eldred facilitated a workshop on "Usability as a Tool for Capacity Building." Grabill also delivered the keynote talk

November 8-14, 2006
Capital Area Community Voices Website Training Workshops
WIDE and Capital Area Community Media Center facilitated  training workshops for local non-profits in order to orient them with the redesigned CACVoices website

October 25-29, 2006
Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association Conference, Baltimore, MD
Suzanne Webb presented a multimedia presentation on "Where's Walter Roger's Pulitzer Prize?"

October 20, 2006
CSLP "Good Practice" Talk on "Minimal Teaching," Erikson Hall, Michigan State University
Jeff Grabill presented on how to follow students in their emerging learning processes

October 18-20, 2006
24th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication
Bill Hart-Davidson, along with WIDE PIs Clay Spinuzzi (University of Texas at Austin) and Mark Zachry (University of Washington) presented on "Chains of Ecologies: Methological Notes Toward Communicative-Mediational Model of Technologically Mediated Writing

May, 2006
Bill HD visits Aarhus School of Business in Denmark: http://www.wide.msu.edu/dk/dkblog/

April 6, 7, 2006
WRITING : : DIGITAL KNOWLEDGE
WIDE Research Center's Annual Conference
Please visit our conference page and list of speakers at http://www.wide.msu.edu/conference/schedule

CONFERENCE SPONSORS

C&W ONLINE POSTER SESSION

February 18, 2006

http://www.wide.msu.edu/poster_session

February 23, 2006

Brown Bag Workshop
Research Opportunities at the WIDE Center
2-3:00pm
203 Olds Hall

SPEAKER SERIES & PAST EVENTS