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Computer Applications in English and Foreign Languages
South Central Modern Language Association Annual Convention
November 6–8, 2008
San Antonio, TX

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS (DUE March 1, 2008)

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Call for Papers: 2008 Thomas R. Watson Conference. "The New Work of Composing."
October 16-18, 2008. University of Louisville. Louisville, KY.

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Innovate is soliciting manuscripts for a special issue on academics in
virtual environments. This issue focuses on the use of Multi-User
Virtual Environments (MUVEs) as an enhancement to education. A MUVE
combines graphics and audio with the ability to communicate with
multiple users in real time within the context of a 3-D virtual
environment. MUVEs are not necessarily considered games, as programs
like Second Life and There have no end goal or objective.

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Wednesday, May 21 through Saturday, May 24, 2008
The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
Open Source as Technology and Concept

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Ninth Biennial 2008 International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference
Wednesday, May 28 through Saturday, May 31, 2008
The University of Texas at Austin
Call for Papers:
Translating and Collaborating, Across Disciplinary, Educational and Geographic Borders
The very nature of WAC scholarship has led practitioners across disciplinary, educational and geographic borders. In doing the process of collaborating across these borders, we have learned as much as we have given: How has translating our work for those outside our field helped us reconceptualize WAC's mission, theories, pedagogy? How has our presence in an institution, school system or country effected a cross-translation, a hybrid, an evolution of each? How does our movement across disciplinary and geographical spaces translate into effective pedagogies that prepare future generations?and how do we know they are effective?

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Instructional videos on YouTube. Software documentation on Scribr and Wikipedia. Collaborative projects on Basecamp. Collaborative writing on Google Docs. When you put a networked computer with a browser on every worker's desk, suddenly it becomes feasible — easy, cheap — to use shared online collaborative spaces to perform all sorts of knowledge work, including professional communication. This social software drops the costs, increases the scale, and quickens the pace of collaborative work—for good or ill.

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UPDATED: Deadline extended to June 8
The 25th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication will be held in El Paso, TX on Oct. 22-24, 2007. Participants are encouraged to submit research papers, workshop proposals, and experience reports concerning processes, methods, and technologies for communicating and designing communication artifacts such as printed documents, online text, and hypermedia applications.

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Guest-edited by Randall McClure, Michael Day and Mike Palmquist
Web 2.0 technologies have clearly taken hold of early twenty-first-century culture, and some technologies, such as social networking sites, have also exerted their influence on higher education, including the teaching and learning of college composition. O’Reilly (2005) conceded that there is still a significant amount of disagreement and criticism of Web 2.0 as both a term and a concept; however, he also noted the staggering number of references to it, a number that today stands at close to 100 million in Google and approaching 1000 in Google Scholar.

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Guest editors: Brad Hughes and Emily B. Hall, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Well-designed Writing Fellows programs—curriculum-based peer tutoring programs, in which undergraduate peer mentors are assigned to work collaboratively with students and faculty in specific writing-intensive courses across the curriculum—can become integral parts of WAC programs in ways that benefit student-writers, faculty, and fellows themselves. Because they embed collaborative learning and contemporary composition pedagogy within courses across the curriculum, Writing Fellows programs also, however, pose various theoretical, pedagogical, and administrative challenges, and they reveal complex intersections of writing, peer collaboration, disciplinary knowledge, and institutional and curricular politics. This special issue of ATD will explore new ways to understand Writing Fellows programs and the connections between them and WAC.