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Defensio
tabularum: A Defense of Archiving Writing Created for Webbed Environments Dene Grigar, Texas Woman's University |
So Ya Wanna Be An Editorial Boarder ...? How Webtexts Travel from Submission to Publication in Kairos (Sometimes) Nick Carbone, University of Massachusetts and Marlboro State College |
Frames in
Action From the new book How to Program HTML Frames: Interface Design and JavaScript Jason Teague, Kairos Production Manager |
Changes in
Kairos 2.1 An overview of the changes in the production and presentation of Kairos Compiled by Greg Siering and Mick Doherty |
Tenure and Technology: New Values, New Guidelines
Coordinated by Seth Katz, Janice Walker, and Janet Cross In the hypertexts that make up this CoverWeb, each author examines some of the possibilites for enacting change in the ways work with technology is evaluated. The hypertexts look at the issues of where, when and how that change can come about; and they look at what we know about changes that have already occurred in how online academic work is valued and evaluated. |
Rhetorics of the Web:
Implications for Teachers of Literacy
Doug Brent, University of Calgary This web calls upon theories of hypertext design, rhetorical theory, genre theory and the theory of transformative technology to explore some possible answers to questions like "What are the forms of rhetorical hypertext?" and "What functions can be best served by which form?" and explores possibilities for hypertext as a reading and writing tool in the classroom. |
Collaborative Spaces and Education
Daniel Anderson, University of Texas at Austin Joi Lynne Chevalier, University of Texas at Austin This webtext promotes distributed learning and collaboration by taking a close look at teaching with the Internet, presenting assignments and surveying student and teacher projects. The text is open to reader contributions, and as such, the authors call it "akin to propping open our classroom doors." |
Embedded Visuals: Student Design in Web Spaces
Tonya Browning, University of Texas at Austin This website is intended as an example of teaching and assessing aspects of design in college composition courses. It addresses how to integrate design in a curriculum and offer students guidelines for design and to evaluate their projects. |
The
Seven
Ages of Computer Connectivity
John F. Barber, Northwestern State University Borrowing from the notion of a geological "age" which denotes a period of time during which something exists in a state or fashion or capacity significantly different than other periods of time, John Barber has declared "The Seven Ages of Computer Connectivity---The Computer Age, The Information Age, The Shocked Age, The Telespheral Age, The Aquarian Age, The Transhuman Age, and The Digital Age." |
InterMOO: Jay David Bolter
How are the "new technology tools" changing our educational environment? Dean Fontenot and John Chandler discuss the impact of MOOs upon the "whole communicative experience" with Georgia Tech's renowned rhetorician of cyberspace. |
InterMOO: Paul LeBlanc
Marlboro College President Paul LeBlanc, former SixthFloor Media guru, swaps pixels with Claudine Keenan and Mick Doherty about "A Journey Through Computers and Writing ... From the Inside Out and Back Again," academia, technology, administration, and the future of technorhetoric. |
What's Going On Out There? Scott Kapel Scott Kapel coordinates a series of updates on the world of pedagogy and the WWW. Includes a look at Project Gutenberg, the Epiphany Project, Composition in Cyberspace, Crossroads, Annenberg/CPB, Netoric, Jesters, and the Hyperfiction Narrative Workshop. |
Astride the Divide: Third Epiphany Institute Gail Matthews DeNatale An unforgettable faculty development experience, the latest Epiphany Institute included some of the finest scholars in our field, including Trent Batson, Fred Kemp, Bill Condon, Pam Takayoshi, Dickie Selfe, Paul LeBlanc, Susan Romano, and Steve Gilbert. This report provides complete session notes and important follow-up research and resource materials. |
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Papertexts: Wizards, Wired Women, Historians, Contrarians, Eulogizers,
and Other Online Personae Coordinated by John F. Barber Fourteen reviewers take turns examining and reflecting on eleven papertext books which examine the history, present and future of the online world. An interlinked hypertextual spin collapses the boundaries between reviewer(s) and text(s) and invites the reader to join the conversation. Books reviewed include Wired Women, The Gutenberg Elegies, The Wired Neighborhood, Life on the Screen, Link/Age, The Future Does Not Compute, CyberReader, and several others.
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