Category: Presentations, Conference

  • "The Both/And of Faculty, Undergraduate Digital Scholarship"

    citation Ball, Cheryl E. (2009, January 7). The both/and of faculty, undergraduate digital scholarship. Conference for the Center of Teaching and Learning with Technology, Normal, IL. abstract This presentation tracks two ecologies: (1) an undergraduate multimodal composition class producing digital scholarship for a digital book collection, and (2) the teacher’s work on that digital collection…

  • "B-Movie Virgin Sacrifice: Digital Scholarship in a Print-Tenure World"

    citation Ball, Cheryl E. (2009, March 12). B-Movie virgin sacrifice: Digital scholarship in a print-tenure world. Conference on College Composition & Communication, San Francisco, CA. abstract In this presentation, I respond to pressures that tenure and promotion evaluators do not know how to read digital scholarship (MLA “Evaluating Scholarship” Report, 2006) and do not value…

  • "Sustainable Teaching & Learning through Co-Directed Undergraduate & Faculty Digital Scholarship"

    citation Ball, Cheryl E., with Matthew Wendling. (2009, June 20). ‘When we ask ourselves these questions, what will our answers be?’: Sustainable teaching and learning through co-directed undergraduate and faculty digital scholarship. Computers & Writing, University of California–Davis. abstract This presentation tracks two ecologies: (1) an undergraduate multimodal composition class producing digital scholarship for a…

  • "Value Added: The Shape of the E-Journal"

    citation Ball, Cheryl E. (2009, December 28). Value added: The shape of the e-journal. Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA. abstract A poster-like session of electronic journal editors focusing on what one can do with online journals that would not be possible in print journals. I address digital media scholarship through examination of my role as…

  • "Mentoring Electronically and From a Distance"

    citation Ball, Cheryl E, & Rickly, Becky. (2010, March 17). Mentoring electronically and from a distance. Coalition of Women Scholars. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Louisville, KY. abstract In roundtable style, Rickly and Ball will offer suggestions for how to distance-mentor (and be mentored) through use of information communication technologies. accompanying materials not available…

  • "New Media Scholarship: Taxonomies, Heuristics, and Strategies"

    citation Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, May 23). New media scholarship: Taxonomies, heuristics, and strategies to connect authors, editors, departments, and tenure committees. Computers and Writing, Athens, GA. abstract In this presentation, I draw on Allison Warner’s (2007) heuristic for assessing the scholarly value of traditional webtexts that fall between print-like and multimedia-rich, digital scholarship. Warner…

  • "Peer Review in New Media"

    citation Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, April 4). Peer-review in new media: The process of evaluation as example for tenure and promotion committees. Conference on College Composition & Communication, New Orleans, LA. abstract The MLA Report on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion (2006) renews the legitimacy gap between refereed print articles and refereed electronic articles,…