Review by Christopher Sean Harris Read about Session a10 on the C&W conference site. Visit the scribd site for additional session information. Panelists Kristine Blair, Bowling Green State University, Chair Mariana Growhowski, Bowling Green State University Estee Beck, Bowling Green State University This session, “Subverting Digital Hierarchies: Historical Quest for Safe Spaces,” began as a chapter proposal that is currently under review. In the session, panelists employed cyberfeminist theory to critique limitations caused by Foucoudian relationships of agency and power within Learning Management Systems (LMS). The panelists then discussed ways faculty might navigate and productively work within the constraints of those systems…
Author: Sweetland DRC
We are pleased and delighted to present the 2013 edition of the C&W Reviews. Many thanks to our 15 reviewers and 3 editors, who wrote and reflected quickly and artfully to bring you this material. Read about keynote addresses by Gee, King, and Stolley, who discuss digital writing as making across boundaries–making at times difficult and complex, but necessary and rewarding. Browse reviews of individual sessions that focus on a range of topics related to computers and writing, including the intersection of race and the digital, MOOCs and their impact on our work, composing with aural and fan rhetorics, and…
Review by Abigail Scheg Read more about session F2 on the C&W conference site. Panelists Joel Beatty, Michigan Technological University Douglas Walls, University of Central Florida Dawn Armfield, Frostburg State University Terry Smith, University of Maryland Eastern Shore Joel Beatty was the only member of this panel to provide a live presentation. Douglas Walls was unable to attend Computers and Writing, but created a video presentation that was graciously set up by Linh Dich of Miami University Middletown. Walls was also available via Twitter to answer questions from the participants. The other participants, Dawn Armfield and Terry Smith, did not present.…
Review by Mariana Grohowski Read more about session F8 on the C&W conference site. Panelists Claire Lauer, Arizona State University Colleen Reilly, University of North Carolina Wilmington Stephen Carradini, Auburn University Jennifer Veltsos articulately explained the quasi-appropriate location of the session, tweeting: Though the journey to attend this session was not for the faint of heart, the session was widely attended, despite the absence of third panelist Stephen Carradini. Audience and location aside, Lauer and Reilly’s presentations invited lively dialogue during and after their presentations, making for an interactive and enriching session overall. “Expertise with new/multi/modal/visual/media technologies desired: Tracing composition’s evolving…