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    C&W2006

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    "I believe computers and writing is best represented as a community because that definition foregrounds the individuals involved in its work, rather than the scholarship or other knowledge they present."

    -James Inman
    Computers and Writing: The Cyborg Era

    		    
    Poster Sessions
    The conference offered three poster sessions in the building's atrium.
      "Nanotechnology and Audience-Specific Interface Design" (Bird)
      Recent studies of online learning environments have shown that people make near instantaneous opinions about the value of a site largely on its immediate visual appeal (Lindgaard, Fernandes, Dudek, and Brown). This poster discusses and examines an online learning site, funded by the National Science Foundation, created to introduce sophomore engineering students to the societal dynamics of nanotechnology. The site was created in collaboration with engineering professors who provided feedback on the initial content and who were themselves creating companion modules discussing technical advances and principles in nanotechnology. The site combines the hypertext nature of the Web with the function and admittedly traditional metaphor of a textbook. Module examples that highlight the importance of audience-specific interface design for online learning are presented. Complications relating to the integration of the social aspects module are also presented.

      "Evolution and Revolution: The Digital Divide and Service Learning in Public Housing" (Kirkpatrick)
      Brilliant students and collaboration across many institutions have brought a small service learning project into the big time—a two-pronged effort to move a small scale after-school technology and tutoring program into a much larger scale learning center, and an effort to bring bandwidth and computer access to 305 units where people live who are at or below the "poverty" line. The concept of spending higher education's digital capital in communities of need will be the focus of this poster that documents and brings into focus the challenges and rewards of community-based partnerships for higher education.

      "Kairos: A History of Cover Logos" (Jeney, Ball, Eyman)
      Over the past decade, Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy has published a wide-ranging selection of scholarly texts that Kairos' 10th Anniversary engage the intersections of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy through composition in the very media that best support those intersections. In this poster, we present a snapshot of the issues and themes that have been important to the field of Computers and Writing over the lifetime of the journal by displaying the cover graphics that have appeared from issue 1.1 in Spring of 1996 to our forthcoming tenth-anniversary issue due out this August.