Dr. Cheryl E. Ball

Category: Presentations, Conference

  • "Multimodal Composition Practices: Overviews and Impacts on Tenure & Promotion"

    citation Ball, Cheryl E. (2006, July). Multimodal composition practices: Overviews and impacts on tenure & promotion. Virtual Reality & Real Life (VR@RL) Conference [Online]. abstract In this online asynchronous session, I presented results and discussion from the CCCC Survey on multimodal practices, with particular emphasis on the section about tenure and promotion issues for scholars…

  • "Editing Scholarship in a New Media Age"

    citation Ball, Cheryl E. (2006, May 27). Editing scholarship in a new media age. Computers & Writing, Lubbock, TX. abstract In this panel presentation, four presenters (editors of Kairos or authors for Kairos’s 10th anniversary issue) discuss the history and trajectory of digital writing studies’ longest-running online journal. I focused on the transitions the journal…

  • "A Survey of Multimodal Composition Practices"

    citation Ball, Cheryl E. (2006, May 26). A survey of multimodal composition practices: Report on a CCCC Research Initiative Grant. Computers & Writing, Lubbock, TX. abstract In this panel presentation, the six investigators of the CCCC Research Initiative Grant on multimodal pedagogies presented the findings of the survey results. I focused on the survey section…

  • "First Year Out: Time- and Face-Management Tips for Junior Faculty Members"

    citation Ball, Cheryl E. (2006, May 26). First year out: Time- and face-management tips for junior faculty members. Computers & Writing, Lubbock, TX. abstract In this session, several newly hired tenure-track faculty members present advice, suggestions, and tips for managing the transition to their schools. I focused on how to balance professional and personal roles…

  • "Revisiting the Usefulness of Current Multimodal and New Media Theories"

    citation Ball, Cheryl E. (2006, March 23). Revisiting the usefulness of current multimodal and new media theories. Conference on College Composition & Communication, Chicago, IL. abstract In this presentation, I discussed two sets of rubrics posited by new media scholars, Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen in their book Multimodal Discourse and Lev Manovich in…

  • "Designing Educational Spaces for Students & Colleagues"

    citation Ball, Cheryl E. (2005, October 21). Designing educational spaces for students & colleagues. Council on Programs in Technical & Scientific Communication, Lubbock, TX. abstract In this roundtable, I focused on issues of being a new faculty member in a department and how I created a research identity that was transparent, if a little “quirky,”…

  • "Trans-cultural Multimedia Production in an English Classroom"

    citation Ball, Cheryl E. (2005, September 7). Trans-cultural multimedia production in an English classroom. Conference of Open Source Learning & Instructional Technology, Logan, UT. abstract In English studies, the past decade has seen a dramatic shift toward analysis and production of multimedia texts (c.f. Cope & Kalantzis, 2000; Wysocki, Selfe, Johnson-Eilola, & Sirc, 2004). This…

  • "Rhetoric, Technology, & Aesthetics in New Media Spaces"

    citation Ball, Cheryl E. (2005, June 17). Hackers, schmoozers, & wonder: Rhetoric, technology, & aesthetics in new media spaces. Computers & Writing, Palo Alto, CA. abstract In this session, I presented on a “rhetoric of wow,” drawing on Geoffrey Sirc’s (2001) notion of a Happenings pedagogy and Philip Fisher’s (2003) poetics of wonder and thought.…

  • "The Status of New Media Pedagogy in Composition Studies"

    citation Ball, Cheryl E. (2005, March 19). Throwing teachers over the top rope: The status of new media pedagogy in composition studies. Conference on College Composition & Communication, San Francisco, CA. abstract Presenters in this session reported on the research questions, methodologies, and initial results from a CCCC Research Survey on multimodal composition. accompanying materials…

  • "Editing as Rhetoric Research"

    citation Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, December 30). Roundtable on rhetoric research: Editing as rhetoric research. Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA. abstract In this roundtable presentation, seven presenters produced papers or video descriptions answering the question “what is rhetoric research?” Session chairs Jenn Fishmann and Stacy Pigg mixed the individual presentations together into a whole…