posted September 4, 2009 by Bill Hart-Davidson
With the submission and publication of a whitepaper entitled \"Archive 2.0: Imagining The Michigan State UniversityIsraelite Samaritan Scroll Collection as the Foundation for a Thriving Social Network,\" the Archive 2.0 project team officially wrapped up the startup phase of their efforts today. Jim Ridolfo, graduate of Michigan State University\'s Rhetoric & Writing program and Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati is the lead author of the report. Mike McLeod and Bill Hart-Davidson from WIDE are also authors on the report.
The whitepaper is one of the deliverables required by the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities, the agency that provided funding for the initial phase of work on the project. The whitepaper reports on the project\'s origins and the history of both the Samaritan people and the collection of texts at the center of the project as well as the activities that took place over the nine month period of funding in 2008-09.
The paper notes that the title of the project - Archive 2.0 - is \"more than simply adding the technological affordances of Web 2.0 to atraditional archive\" it is also an opportunity for \"reconsidering the very nature of anarchive, both what it is and what it does.\" Ridolfo, McLeod, & Hart-Davidson lay out recommendations for what Archive 2.0 projects should aspire to, including
posted September 8, 2009 by Bill Hart-Davidson
ATTW 2010
Synergies: The Intersections of Research and Teaching
13th Annual Conference
March 17, 2010
Louisville, KY
The Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) invites proposals for papers, poster presentations, and workshops to be given at its annual conference immediately preceding the CCCC. The thirteenth annual conference will be held in Louisville, KY, on Wednesday, March 17, 2010. The full-day event includes concurrent sessions, poster presentations, workshops, book exhibits, and opportunities for exchanging ideas, working on projects, and networking in a supportive and challenging academic environment.
This year\'s conference will highlight ways that research informs teaching and teaching informs research. It will challenge researchers, teachers, and practitioners of technical and professional communication to push beyond the generic \"implications for teaching\" section appended to research articles to explore the synergies and questions available when we place research and teaching into conversation.
Submissions on all topics are welcome, but we especially encourage proposals that examine topics such as the following:
* the effectiveness of established or innovative pedagogies,
* a research question sparked by an observation in the classroom,
* pedagogical experiments sparked by research findings,
* the needs of the workplace, the university, the field, or the community and ways to meet or challenge these needs in service, major, or graduate courses,
* the roles, challenges, and benefits of instructional technologies,
* the implications of existing research for the design of programs and curriculum,
* pedagogies that can be used to teach research in the university and in the workplace,
* research methods that can be used to examine pedagogies,
* the relationships between teaching and research as they play out in different contexts within our discipline,
* directions for future research on pedagogy or questions raised by classroom experiences.
Proposals, limited to 300 words, are due October 5, 2009. All proposals will be peer reviewed. We offer three formats:
1. Regular Sessions: Individuals may submit proposals for 15-minute talks that will be placed on panels by conference organizers. Groups may submit proposals for 45-minute panel presentations. To submit proposals, follow the conference links at www.attw.org after September 21, 2009.
2. Poster Presentations: Posters will be on display throughout the day with special times dedicated for conversations about this work. Follow the same process for submission as for a regular session.
3. Workshop Sessions: The conference will include two 90-minute workshops overlapping with the regular sessions. Workshops that would help newcomers integrate into our field are especially encouraged. Please submit workshop proposals directly to Summer Taylor (slsmith@clemson.edu).
For additional information, contact the conference chair, Summer Taylor at Clemson University (slsmith@clemson.edu). New teachers of technical and professional communication are particularly invited to attend the conference, as are graduate students and CCCC attendees interested in technical and professional communication.
Dr. Summer Taylor
Director, Masters in Professional Communication Program
Director, Advanced Writing Program
Associate Professor
English Department
610 Strode Tower
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634
864-656-6689
posted September 22, 2009 by Jeff Grabill
NCTE just announced that Stuart Blythe, Jeff Grabill, and Kirk Riley were named winner of the 2009 NCTE Award in Technical and Scientific Communication in the category of Best Article Reporting Qualitative or Quantitative Research in Technical or Scientific Communication.
posted September 22, 2009 by Jeff Grabill
NCTE just announced that Stuart Blythe, Jeff Grabill, and Kirk Riley were named winner of the 2009 NCTE Award in Technical and Scientific Communication in the category of Best Article Reporting Qualitative or Quantitative Research in Technical or Scientific Communication.
posted September 24, 2009 by Bill Hart-Davidson
The proposal submission site is now available for ATTW 2010. Please link directly to the online proposal submission system at:
http://english.ttu.edu/attwconf/2010conference/ProposalRegistrationForm.asp
After registering, use the same email address and password that you just registered to log in to the site and submit your proposal.
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ATTW 2010
Synergies: The Intersections of Research and Teaching
13th Annual Conference
March 17, 2010
Louisville, KY
The Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) invites proposals for papers, poster presentations, and workshops to be given at its annual conference immediately preceding the CCCC. The thirteenth annual conference will be held in Louisville, KY, on Wednesday, March 17, 2010. The full-day event includes concurrent sessions, poster presentations, workshops, book exhibits, and opportunities for exchanging ideas, working on projects, and networking in a supportive and challenging academic environment.
This year\'s conference will highlight ways that research informs teaching and teaching informs research. It will challenge researchers, teachers, and practitioners of technical and professional communication to push beyond the generic \"implications for teaching\" section appended to research articles to explore the synergies and questions available when we place research and teaching into conversation.
Submissions on all topics are welcome, but we especially encourage proposals that examine topics such as the following:
* the effectiveness of established or innovative pedagogies,
* a research question sparked by an observation in the classroom,
* pedagogical experiments sparked by research findings,
* the needs of the workplace, the university, the field, or the community and ways to meet or challenge these needs in service, major, or graduate courses,
* the roles, challenges, and benefits of instructional technologies,
* the implications of existing research for the design of programs and curriculum,
* pedagogies that can be used to teach research in the university and in the workplace,
* research methods that can be used to examine pedagogies,
* the relationships between teaching and research as they play out in different contexts within our discipline,
* directions for future research on pedagogy or questions raised by classroom experiences.
Proposals, limited to 300 words, are due October 5, 2009. All proposals will be peer reviewed. We offer three formats:
1. Regular Sessions: Individuals may submit proposals for 15-minute talks that will be placed on panels by conference organizers. Groups may submit proposals for 45-minute panel presentations.
2. Poster Presentations: Posters will be on display throughout the day with special times dedicated for conversations about this work. Follow the same process for submission as for a regular session.
3. Workshop Sessions: The conference will include two 90-minute workshops overlapping with the regular sessions. Workshops that would help newcomers integrate into our field are especially encouraged. Please submit workshop proposals directly to Summer Taylor (slsmith@clemson.edu).
For additional information, contact the conference chair, Summer Taylor at Clemson University (slsmith@clemson.edu). New teachers of technical and professional communication are particularly invited to attend the conference, as are graduate students and CCCC attendees interested in technical and professional communication.