Review by Liz Homan Read more about Keynote 1 on the C&W conference site. Allison’s Situated Writing… Learning… Making A high school teacher and friend of mine – I’ll call her Allison, but this is a pseudonym – recently posted on her blog, Sammiches and Psych Meds, a few tips for beginning bloggers. In the post, she describes why she started blogging in the first place. The following is an excerpt from her post, where she describes what got her started in the blogging world and how she went about learning about blogging: I started blogging quite by accident. I was…
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Review by Crystal VanKooten Read more about Keynote 2 on the C&W conference site. Consult handouts, slides, and other materials related to this keynote at the living in enough worlds website. “Computers & writing make up a series of spatial-temporal eco-zones, object ecologies, that keep on re-teaching me what I partially learned in the past, and now can begin to enfold trans-contextually.” – Katie King June 15 It’s Saturday morning, and I lean in toward my laptop screen, still in my pajamas. I’ve just uploaded video of several sessions to the Computers and Writing conference website, and while there, I click on video…
Review by Elizabeth Davis Read more about session F12 on the C&W conference site. Panelists Carra Leah Hood, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Fred Johnson, Whitworth University Jim Kalmbach, Illinois State University Storify, printed texts, website templates. On the surface, three very different technologies and media of representation, but the unlikely juxtaposition of the three in this Saturday morning session of Computers and Writing 2013 resulted in a fruitful interrogation of the significance of the interface. Through their presentations, each of the panelists asked us to think about how form affects content and reminded us of the value of looking at…
Review by Laura Gonzales Read more about the Race Caucus on the C&W conference site. Panelists Linh Dich, Miami University Middletown Abigail Scheg, Elizabeth City State University Douglas Walls, University of Central Florida Phill Alexander, Miami University As the first of two (along with the gender caucus) inaugural meetings meant to encourage and preserve identity studies in computers and writing, this year’s race caucus had a clear yet daunting task: to discuss setting goals for what we will do to make our conference more inclusive in the coming years. Getting Started The meeting started in a room quickly filling to capacity,…