Past C&W Online Conferences

For many years, online discussions and get togethers have occurred in conjunction with the onsite Computers & Writing conference, but the genesis of C&WOnline may have come from the 1995 RhetNet Symposium on the History of Computers and the Teaching of Writing. Hosted by Rhetnet, A Cyberjournal of Rhetoric and Writing, and The Netoric Project, the Electric Symposium discussed via an email list articles by Gail Hawisher, Paul LeBlanc, Charles Moran, and Cynthia Selfe, from the 1995 book: Computers and the Teaching of Writing in American Postsecondary Education, 1979-1994: A History. You can certainly see the seeds of C&WOnline in this "electronic symposium."

The first "formal" Computers & Writing Online began in 1999 with a conference organized by Tari Fanderclai, James Inman, and Sharon Cogshill (along with a lot of help from others). From the beginning, C&W Online has been designed to be a companion and complement to the onsite Computers & Writing conference. The first online conference lasted from March 1 through June 7 and offered listserv presentations for extended times and a full schedule of real-time synchronous presentations.

Visit C&WOnline 1999

The core group who put on C&W Online 1999, along with other Netoric Project participants like Cindy Wambeam, Brad Dilger, and Greg Siering, went on to host C&WOnline 2000 as well as C&WOnline 2001 . This dedicated group set the gold standard for Computers & Writing Online and helped to establish the conference a crucial part of the C&W community.

Other past conference sites:

C&W Online 2005 When Content Is No Longer King: Social Networking, Community, and Collaboration (Charlie Lowe, coordinator)

C&W Online 2004: Pedagogical Riptides (Joel English, coordinator)

Unfortunately, the archives to C&W 2002 and 2003 are lost at this point.

Visit the C&W Archives hosted by the ComputersandWriting.org site for links to past onsite C&W conferences as well.