Dr. Cheryl E. Ball

Tag: peer-reviewed

  • "Talking Back to Teachers: Undergraduate Research in Multimodal Composition"

    citation Ball, Cheryl E., et al. (in progress). Talking back to teachers: Undergraduate research in multimodal composition. In Debra Journet, Cheryl E. Ball, and Ryan Trauman (Eds.) The new work of composing. Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State University Press. abstract This chapter is composed of 14 voices—12 undergraduates, 1 graduate student, and 1 faculty…

  • "Digital Scrapbooking and Oral Histories"

    citation Ball, Cheryl E. (2005). Digital scrapbooking and oral histories [pre-proposal]. Dee Foundation. $60,000. [not funded]. abstract This project intended to collect oral histories of local Utah residents & scan their keepsake/artifacts for arhival purposes. accompanying materials not available

  • "Editing an Online (Digital) Multimedia Book in English Studies"

    citation Ball, Cheryl E. (2008). The new work of composing: Editing an online (digital) multimedia book in English studies. Research Enhancement Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Illinois State University. $4,000 [not funded/waitlisted]. abstract The New Work of Composing is the working title to the field of English Studies’ first digital, multimedia-rich “book” to be…

  • "Composing _The New Work of Composing_"

    citation Ball, Cheryl E. (2009). Composing The New Work of Composing: A Born-Digital Afterword Reflecting on Digital Scholarship for a Born-Digital Book. NEH 2009 Summer Stipend. $6,000. [Not funded] abstract The Modern Language Association reports that over 52% of humanities department chairs have no experience evaluating digital books for tenure/promotion, including “born-digital” books (i.e., a…

  • "Assessing Faculty & Student Multimodal Teaching and Learning Practices Across Campus"

    citation Ball, Cheryl E.; Ellison, Katherine; Thompson, Torri; Justice, Hilary; Neuleib, Janice; & Kalmbach, James. (2009). Assessing faculty & student multimodal teaching and learning practices across campus. Department/School Initiative in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Illinois State University. $10,000. [not funded] abstract This grant proposal was intended to fund a series of surveys and…

  • "Creating Sustainable Teaching Practices for Multimodal Scholarship"

    citation Ball, Cheryl E. (2009, October 1). Creating sustainable teaching practices for multimodal scholarship. NEH Teaching Development Fellowship. $21,000. [under review] abstract I am requesting funding of $21,000 over the five-month period August–December 2010 to complete a teaching development project aimed at creating templates for multimodal scholarship, which I will use as the basis for my English 239: Multimodal Composition course…

  • "Humanities High Performance Computing Collaboratory"

    citation Group Leader/Consultant, Humanistic Algorithms Project. (2008–2009). Humanities High Performance Computing Collaboratory (HpC). Principle Investigator: Kevin Franklin (UIUC); Project Leader: Virginia Kuhn (USC). National Endowment for the Humanities Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Grant. $250,000 [External; ~$5,000 for travel/honoraria]. grant project description (from accompanying materials letter) As one of the group leaders…

  • "Constructing a Tool for Assessing Scholarly Webtexts"

    citation Designer. (2007). For Allison Warner [Author], Constructing a tool for assessing scholarly webtexts. Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy, 12(1). http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/12.1/binder.html?topoi/warner/index.html abstract This webtext presents a tool for assessing the scholarly value of online journal publications. It is part of a larger study that uses Kairos webtexts to investigate the scholarly nature of online texts. The…

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

    citation Ball, Cheryl E. (2005). Trans-cultural multimedia production in an English classroom. Proceedings for Advancing the Effectiveness and Sustainability of Open Education Conference. Utah State University, 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,…

  • "Designing Collaborative Learning Spaces"

    citation Bemer, Amanda; Moeller, Ryan M.; & Ball, Cheryl E. (2009, September). Designing collaborative learning spaces: Where material culture meets mobile writing processes. Programmatic Perspectives: Journal of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, 1(2). http://www.cptsc.org/pp/vol1-2/bemer_moeller_ball1-2.pdf abstract In May 2007, the Department of English at Utah State University (USU) redesigned its computer lab…