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~ 1998 Program ~
Hosted by the University of Utah
 
 

Friday, 10/23/98

Saturday, 10/24/98

Session One 
Session One
Session Two 
Session Two
Session Three
 
 
Friday, October 23, 1998
 

8 am- 9 am Registration and Coffee

Lobby, Languages and Communication (LNCO)

9:00 am- 10:15 Welcome, 1110 LNCO

Keynote Address, Stephen Bernhardt, New Mexico University

Tentative Title: Leveraging our Resources in Computers and Composition
 

Session I: 10:30 am-12:00 pm
 

(a) Project ETC: A Tour of the Electronic Teaching Collaborative

2960 LNCO, Peter Goggin, Chair

Gian Pagnucci and William Macauley, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

(b) The Evils of Technology: Marginalizing the Other

3840 LNCO, Jaime Mejia, Chair

Charise, Nahm, Octavio Pimentel, and Edward Buendia, University of Utah

(c) Incorporating Technology into the Classroom: Why? How? and to What Ends?

3850 LNCO, Fredel Wiant, Chair

How New Teachers Make Instructional Decisions About Technology, Research, and Writing

Barbara Sitko, Washington State University

Elements of Email: A Creative Learning Pedagogy in Process

Will Hochman, University of Southern Colorado

Underneath the Hyper-Hoopla: What Are Students Really Doing with Electronic Communication?

Nanci-Werner-Burke, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Evaluation Issues in Electronic Collaborative Scholarship

Cindy Nahrwold, New Mexico State University

Break for lunch: On your own (suggestions will be given)
 

Session II: 1:30 pm -3:00 pm
 

(a) The Cutting Edge of Education: Using Technology In and As the Classroom

3840 LNCO, Elizabeth Hendricks, Chair

Title to be announced

Jeffrey Livingston, Western Governor's University

Technology in the Foreign Language Classroom

Robyn A. Hill, University of Utah

Targeting Beginning Users: Progressive Education Ideology and the Introductory Document Production Course

Allene Cooper, Arizona State University
 
 

(b) Hyper about Hypertext: Choosing and Using Electronic Rhetoric

3850 LNCO, Susan Miller, Chair

What is Wrong with the Rhetorical Situation? Recontextualizing Writing by Creating Hypertext(s) in the Composition Classroom

Steve Marti, Arizona State University

Hypertext, Argumentation, and Dialogue

Charles Hill, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh

The Promises and Challenges of Teaching Hypertext in the Electronic Classroom-- Is There a (Hyper)Text in This Class?

Tiffany Winman, Arizona State University
 
 

(c) Incendiary Rhetoric and the Wired Classroom

2960 LNCO, Charise Nahm, Chair

Incendiary Rhetoric, (Ivory) Towering Infernos, and the Wired Classroom

Laurie George, Maggie McDowell, and Larin McLaughlin, University of Washington

A Hateful Web: What Students Make of Internet Hategroup Sites

Joe Calabrese, University of Nevada, Reno
 
 

(d) Roundtable (2820 LNCO)

1. Ned Lud in the Late Age of Print: Fear and Folk Hero in Computer-Mediated Composition

Bonnie Lenore Kyburz, Arizona State University

2. Stitching a New Strand: Needlework as Technology and Cross-Stitching Samplers as Literate Practice

Maureen Daly Goggin, Arizona State University
 

Session III: 3:15 pm- 4:45 pm
 

(a) Consuming Information and Community: Techno-Control Around the World

3850 LNCO, Thomas Huckin, Chair

Computers and Community: Reflections from a Third World Village

John-Charles Duffy, University of Utah

Imagined Electronic Communities: Representations of Virtual Community in Contemporary Business Discourse

Chris Werry, Carnegie Mellon University

Economic Analysis of the Distinction Between Composition and Reading

Suchoon Mo, University of Southern Colorado

On-Line Reading Between the Lines: Using the Creative Imagination to Search For and Critically Evaluate Internet Information

Ellen Strenski, University of California, Irvine
 
 

(b) Orality and Literacy Coming Together in the Electronic Age

3840 LNCO, Gian Pagnucci, Chair

Smile When You Write That, Partner: Flaming as a Sociolinguistic/Rhetorical Lens on Literate Practices

Peter N. Goggin, Arizona State University

Secondary Literacy: Technology and Discourse in the Intercultural Workplace--or-- An American in Sweden

Lori C. Brodkin, New Mexico State University

Teacher Persona and Online Communication Modalities: Students Respond to Teacher Comments

Loel Kim Robinson, Carnegie Mellon University
 
 
 

(c) Collaborating: Feedback From Afar

2820 LNCO, Linn Bekins, Chair

Collaborative Writing at a Distance: Is the Media the Message, Or Is Technology Transparent?

Patricia Wojahn, Robert Morris College

Techno-Homework: Composition Teacher Grades Webnotes

Julie Robinson, Arizona State University

Reception in Faculty Lounge, LNCO: 5:00-6:30 pm

Saturday, October 24, 1998
 
8:00 - 9:00 am Registration and Coffee

Lobby, Languages and Communication (LNCO)
 

Session I: 9:00 am- 10:30 am
 

(a) Basic Writers and Computers: Imagination, Empowerment, and Politics

2960 LNCO, William Macauley, Chair

Judith Kish and Patricia Murphy, Arizona State University
 
 

(b) The Zen of Textual Experience: Challenging Traditional Notions of Reading/Writing Through Technology

3840 LNCO, Maureen Mathison, Chair

Virtual Kairos: Rethinking Electronic Bulletin Boards

Rebecca Busker, Arizona State University

The Virtual Spiritual Metaphor in Discourse and Cyberspace: Speculations and Implications

Annette Yurkovich Shumate, Concord College

Escape Velocity is a Deadly Fantasy: Artificial Intelligence and Subversion in Cyberspace

Ronald Scott, University of Arizona
 
 

(c) Whose Time and Space is This Anyway? Problems in Email, Ethics, and Teaching

3850 LNCO, Rebecca Busker, Chair

Geoff Baker, Brad Lucas, and Shawn Fullmer, University of Nevada, Reno
 

Session II: 10:45 am- 12:15 pm
 

(a) Ready, Set, Publish! Aspects of Electronic Publication

2950 LNCO, Tiffany Winman, Chair

Publishing Student Writing on the Internet and Issues of Student Privacy

Jennifer Hardy Williams, University of California, Irvine

Student Writing as Literature: Dissolving Textual Boundaries of Author-ity with the Assistance of Technology

Peter Caster, Oregon State University

Minding the Gap: The Shifting Face of Audience in the Electronic Classroom

Nicole Evans, Brigham Young University
 
 

(b) We Speak "Netspeak": Using Chat Lines in the Classroom

2960 LNCO, Octavio Pimental, Chair

Computer Discussions: Finding a Voice for Students, While Saving Your Own

Richard B. McDonald, Utah Valley State College

The Significance of 'Netspeak' for Composition Class Discussion Lists

Jonathan A. Singer, University of California, Irvine

Recapturing the Vital Element of Live Interaction: Pros and Cons of Synchronous Chat in the Online Classroom

Klint Hull, Spokane Community College
 
 

(c) Coming Into Being: Creating Identities Through Technology

3840 LNCO, Maureen Daly Goggin, Chair

On-line Literate Practices of Health Consumers: A Preliminary Case Study of Composing Processes and Rhetorical Features

Mary Specker Stone, University of Arizona

Literacy and Technology in an Inner-City Housing Project: Rebuilding Conditions for Hope

Elenore Long, Robert Morris College and Pittsburgh's Community Literacy Center

Connecting Language, Literacy, and Technology: How User Strategies Translate into Complex Literate Acts

Linn Bekins, University of Utah
 
 

(d) Remembering the Student: Choices About Curriculum

3850 LNCO, Raul Sanchez, Chair

Vestiges of Expressivism: Why College Writing Fails

Karen Spear and Carol Smith, Fort Lewis College

Crossover Collaborations from Families to Composition Classrooms

Jaime Mejia, Southwest Texas State University

Writing Positions: A Post-Structuralist Critique of Competing Composition Discourses

Liz Hendricks, University of Utah

Afternoon: ON YOUR OWN (Suggestions will be given)

No Host Dinner at Local Pub, Trolley Square: 7:00 pm -?

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