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Calls for Papers
- 2006 SWTexas PCA/ACA: Computer Culture
- 2008 ACM SIGDOC
- 2008 Computers & Writing Conference
- 2008 International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference
- 2008 SCMLA: Computer Applications in English and Foreign Languages
- 2008 Thomas R. Watson Conference: "The New Work of Composing"
- 3rd Annual Chicago Digital Humanities/Computer Science
- Academic Exchange Quarterly: Writing and Social Awareness
- Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
- ATTW 2006: Texts/Technology
- Call for nominations: Technology Innovator Award
- Call for Papers on Academics in Virtual Environments
- Call for Papers: Currents in Electronic Literacy
- Call for Papers: SIGDOC 2007
- Call for Proposals: Special Issue of Technical Communication Quarterly (Winter 2010)
- Composition in the Freeware Age: Assessing the Impact and Value of the Web 2.0 Movement for the Teaching of Writing
- Computers & Composition special issue: Reading Games: Composition, Literacy, and Video Gaming
- Computers & Writing Online 2006
- Computers and Writing 2006
- Computers and Writing Online 2005
- EAAS BIENNIAL CONFERENCE, Workshop: Cyberspace Revisited
- Edited Collection on Virtual Workplaces and the New Nature of Business Practices
- eFiles
- Fall 2005 Issue of Computers and Composition Online
- Interfaces: English Studies and the Computer (UK) (8/30/05; 11/3/05-11/4/05)
- JBTC Special Issue: Social Software in Professional Communication
- New Media Consortium Announces Call for Proposals
- New media, networks and new pedagogies (2006)
- Open Call for Proposals: Writing Research Across Borders
- PCA/ACA: Computers & Writing/Composition/Rhetoric
- Reading and Writing New Media (a collection of essay-texts edited by Jim Kalmbach and Cheryl Ball)
- Rewriting Across the Curriculum: Writing Fellows as Agents of Change in WAC
- Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
- SIGDOC 2006
- Special Issue of TCQ: Technical Communication in the Age of Distributed Work
- Spring 2006 WIDE Conference
- Technical and professional communication sessions at RMMLA 2006
- The Wild, Wild Wiki: Unsettling the Frontiers of Cyberspace
CFP
- 'Knowledge Engineering Review' special issue: Visual Reasoning and Knowledge
- 'Technical Communication Quarterly' special issue: Posthuman Rhetorics and Technical Communication
- Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations: Digital Humanities 2009
- Call for Chapter Proposals: Collaborative Writing in Virtual Workplaces
- Digital Media and Learning Competition 2008
- The Tenth Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association
- Transformative Works and Cultures: Special Issue
Colloquium
- 2002 Colloquium website
- 2003 Colloquium website
- 2004 Colloquium website
- 2005 Colloquium website
- Colloquium Roundtable: Cyber-nicities
- Colloquium Roundtable: Feminist Pedagogy
- Colloquium Roundtable: Literature and Technology
- Colloquium Roundtable: Objectifying Technology in the Classroom
- Colloquium Series
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How to Guides
- Audio captioning
- Creating accessible tables
- Creating ALT text
- Creating forms
- CWRL Guide for Podcasting in Pedagogy
- Drupal: A Guide for New Administrators
- Drupal: A Guide for New Users
- Flickering content
- gMud for PC Home Users
- Guidelines for Workgroup Project Plans
- Guides to CWRL Resources
- How to Use Microsoft Word's Commenting Features
- How to Use the Multimedia Stations in Parlin 104A
- Making Audio
- Managing Your Teacher Folder
- Mind Mapping Software
- MOO resources
- Overview of Synchronous Chat
- Printing Policy
- Screen Shots and Scanning
- Setting Up MOO Chat Sessions
- Shortcuts and skip to content links
- Using applets
- Using color
- Using Dreamweaver
- Using EndNote
- Using frames
- Using image maps
- Using iMovie
- Using InDesign
- Using iTunes
- Using Project Management Software
- Using Psi for Group Chats
- Using Social Networking Software
- Using stylesheets
- Using Webspace
- Using Zotero
Lesson Plans and Classroom Assignments Fall 2008
- Getting the Most out of the Discussion Board in the CWRL Classroom
- Lesson Plan: Mr. Rogers’ Rhetoric
- Appealing to All the Senses: Making Multimedia Arguments
- Attendance Blogging
- Build Your Own Dorm: Exploring Persuasive Genres
- Class Publication
- Comparing arguments using Mind Maps
- eComma Assignment
- Electronic Pre-Writing and Peer Review
- Group Paper
- Identifying and Finding Arguments
- In-Class Activity on Rhetorical Analysis of Candidates’ Web Pages
- In-Class Contextual Analysis: Gettysburg
- Lesson Plan forThe Blind Side Chapters 4-6
- Lesson Plan: Ideology and Perspective
- Lesson: Screen Readers and Visual Accessibility
- Mapping Home: Using Mapping Tools in the Clasroom
- Mapping the Visual Rhetoric of Iwo Jima
- Michael, Martin, and Malcolm: Rhetoric, Race, and Neighborhood
- Pageflakes Assignment
- Science Debate 2008
- Showcasing/Peer Editing Student Drafts and Public Arguments Using Technology
- Technology Options for Revision
- Text Coloring Assignment
- The GoogleMaps Challenge
- The Story of Stuff: A Class Research Summary
- Using Video to Develop Research Summary Skills
- Visual Analysis of Gender Roles in Commercials
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- Conferences and Organizations
- CWRL Library
- Designing a Professional Website
- Exit Interviews: CWRL Staffers on the Job Market
- Fellowships in Technology & Writing
- Grant Funding Sources
- Journals in Technology & Writing
- Online Writing Labs
- Programs in Technology & Writing
- Tips for Writing a CV
Spotlights in Teaching
- A Message from the Feminist Pedagogy Workgroup
- Alternate Realities in the CWRL
- Blogging Pedagogy
- Congratulations to the Textualities Workgroup!
- CWRL Lecture Series: Brian Bremen
- CWRL Lecture Series: Laura McGrath
- CWRL Lecture Series: Lester Faigley
- CWRL Lecture Series: Peg Syverson
- Game Design in the CWRL: Rhetorical Peaks
- George Waddington's Novel Ideas
- Melanie Ulrich's Feminist Pedagogy
- Pedagogy Roundtable: Virtual Communities
- Steps toward a Successful Classroom Blog
- Take Two: Student Movies Give College Writing a New Look
- Taking a Closer Look
- The More Things Change
White Papers
- A New Vision for Currents
- A Rationale for Teaching Hypertext Authoring in Literature Courses
- Automated Customization in the CWRL PC Lab
- Creating a Single Authentication Scheme for the CWRL
- Creating an Annotated Syllabus for Job Searches and Teaching Portfolios
- Describing Assemblages: Genre Sets, Systems, Repertoires, and Ecologies
- Digital Publishing and Community: The Context of the Currents in Electronic Literacy Ejournal
- Drupal Accessibility Modifications at the CWRL
- Feminist Cyborgs: Teaching Like a Feminist in the Computer Classroom
- Getting To Work: Transitioning To a New Staffing Model
- Grant Writing: Getting Started
- Improving and Expanding the eFiles Assignment Database
- Issues in Teaching Series
- Learning to Move: Connecting Pedagogy with Context through a Difficult Classroom
- Modeling Knowledge Work
- MOO Bots
- Neutralizing Identity: Exploring Language and Gender in a Virtual World
- Office Work, Knowledge Work: Studying Office Work in an Academic Environment as Knowledge Work
- Preparing White Papers in the CWRL
- Professionalization Strategies for CWRL Staffers
- Re-Designing the CWRL Web Site: A Look to the Future
- Restructuring the Computer Writing and Research Laboratory’s Colloquium: Some Prospects for Symposium
- Rhetorical Peaks: A Design for Teaching Rhetoric in a Gaming Environment
- The Current State of Currents: A Proposal for Improving Our Electronic Journal
- Towards a Dynamic Community Identity: Transitioning to a CMS-Driven CWRL Web Site
- Uses of PowerPoint in the 314L Classroom
- Welcome to the Blogosphere: Using Weblogs to Create Classroom Community
- What Do We Need to Teach About Knowledge Work?
- White Paper Template
- XML as a Computational and Rhetorical Technology