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Symposium Presentations
Feb. 18
10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. CST
Make plans to attend this online conference. Mingle with friends and colleagues, attend online discussions, chat over poster presentations, listen to a keynote conversation--all online! The Symposium will be held in the TTU MOO, an enCore Learning Environment. Attendees will be provided with a login username and password upon registration for the conference. Additionally, a guide for participating in the Symposium and presentation schedule will be sent. These same Symposium attendance materials will be available from the conference website as well.
Symposium Schedule (all times listed are CST):
9:00-10:00 a.m. |
Pre-conference arrival, Poster Session viewing
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10:00-11:00 a.m.
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Presentation Session I Concurrent Sessions
- "Blogging Science: The Sociology and Rhetoric of Scientific Knowledge Production Online." Aimee Kendall Roundtree, Univ. of Houston--Downtown
- "Bill Gates: America's #1 Teacher of Writing?" Talinn Phillips, Ohio University.
- "Empowering the Silent Minority: Invisible Students in a Hybrid Writing Class." Robin Evans, Oklahoma State University
- "Facebook, Online Student Networking, and Strategically Designed Student Selves." Spencer Schaffner, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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11:00-11:15 a.m.
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Short Break
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11:15 a.m. -12:15 p.m.
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Presentation Session II Concurrent Sessions
- "Making Knowledge in a Multimedia Authoring Minor: The Interface Between Professional Writing & Rhetoric and Computer Science."
Paula
Rosinski, Elon University
- "Pre-History and Image-Making: A Case History Examining Early Design Practices." Lisa Baird, Purdue University North Central
- "Can Blogs Foster an Interest in Writing?: An Analysis of a Blog Assignment in the Composition I Classroom." Rob Koch, Gordon College.
- "Writing Ourselves: Voices in the Virtual Stream." Sabrina Gaskill, Mesalands Community College.
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12:15-1:15 p.m.
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Poster Session Viewing/Lunch Break
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1:15-2:30 p.m.
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Keynote Conversation
"Computers & Writing—A Discipline?" Cynthia Selfe, Fred Kemp, James Inman, and Cheryl Ball.
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2:30-3:00 p.m.
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Computers and
Writing Online 2006, "Making Knowledge on the Digital
Frontier," is the companion conference to Computers and
Writing 2006, held May 25-28, 2006, at Texas Tech University
in Lubbock, Texas. Graphics from freefoto.com.
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