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Ball, Cheryl E. (2016, October 7). Pathways to tech with a liberal arts degree. West Virginia Women and Technology Conference, Canaan Valley, WV.
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This presentation was part of the 2016 West Virginia Women and Technology Conference and argues that a liberal arts degree provides graduates with communication and writing skills that are essential in the tech industry.
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2016, May 18). Getting to digital publishing at WVU. Library Publishing Forum, Denton, TX.
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This discussion of the Vega academic publishing system and the future of digital publishing was the keynote address at the 2016 Library Publishing Forum, which brings together library professionals who are participating in or considering publishing initiatives.
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2016, April 29). Designing peer review for digital media instruction. Writing on the Range conference, University of Denver, CO.
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This keynote presentation at the University of Denver’s Writing on the Range conference details the multimodal writing pedagogy Cheryl Ball developed from her editorial work at the online journal Kairos.
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2016, February 15). Digital publishing as a liberal art. Visiting Lecture Series. Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN.
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This talk was part of Wabash College’s 2016 visiting lecture series. It addresses how reading and writing changed with the expansion of digital modes of communication in the 20th century and argues that interdisciplinary training gives students the skills to be successful readers and writers the 21st century.
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2016, February 11). A life online: Personal vs. professional persona in portfolios, social media, and other online public fora. Visiting Scholar All-Campus Address, Findlay University, Findlay, OH.
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This slideshow is from Cheryl Ball’s Visiting Scholar All-Campus Address, presented as part of her Spring 2016 tenure as Visiting Scholar in the University of Findlay’s Master of Arts in Rhetoric and Writing program. In it she uses her online portfolio websites and social media accounts as examples of how to (and how *not* to) craft a professional online persona.
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2015, December 3). An archipelago of multimedia publishing. Digital Dissemination and its Others: Media Archaeology, Game Design and Knowledge Production in the Humanities. Skövde University, Skövde, Sweden.
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This keynote presentation at the Digital Dissemination seminar at Skövde University in Sweden traces the development of the Vega Academic Publishing System from its roots in Cheryl Ball’s work as the editor of the online journal, Kairos.
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2015, October 22). Teaching multimodal assignments through an editorial pedagogy. Moravian College, Bethleham, PA.
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Cheryl Ball presented at Moravian College on how she uses the editorial pedagogy she developed for her work as editor of the Journal Kairos to teach multimodal, digital scholarship to students in her classes.
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2015, October 13). The archipelago of multimedia publishing. Digital Dialogues Series, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), University of Maryland–College Park, MD.
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At the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities Fall Digital Dialogue series, Cheryl Ball discussed the forthcoming launch of Vega, a free, editorial-management platform that supports peer review, copy-editing, and publication of multimedia-rich and data-driven scholarship and creative works in all areas of research. Vega is being designed with a unique editorial workflow that recognizes and values the importance of screen-based multimedia research, including digital humanities projects and electronic literature.
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2015, October 9). A networked archipelago of digital publishing at WVU. Eberly College Visiting Alumni Committee, West Virginia University.
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Presented to the Eberly College Visiting Alumni Committee, this presentation explains how the Vega academic publishing system enacts the principles of digital, multimodal, open access publishing.
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Ball, Cheryl E. with Jeff Grabill and Huiling Ding. (2015, October 1). Academic publishing and research grant writing. Fall for the Book Festival [Society of Technical Communication panel], Fairfax, VA.
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In this talk, presented as part of the Fall for the Book Festival’s Society of Technical Communication panel, Cheryl Ball outlines how the Vega academic publishing system being designed and built with a Mellon Foundation grant is addressing long-standing sustainability problem in online academic publishing.
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