CW2001 Program - Computers and Writing

Friday
11:15 — 12:30 Session B.1
Electric Frameworks:
Situating Academic Work Anew
RB 105
Joanna Castner, moderator
Elizabeth Pass
E-Pedagogy: A New Model for Online Spaces
As teachers of writing, it is our responsibility to prepare students to
succeed in their workplaces; this responsibility now includes teaching
students to write electronic documents as well as traditional print
documents. These electronic documents differ from print documents,
and our teaching needs to reflect that difference; however, many
teachers have not changed their pedagogy to adapt to the new
demands. This presentation discusses a model—drawn from Deleuze's
and Guattari's concept of smooth and striated rhetorical spaces—for
teaching writing in electronic environments, a model that recognizes
and allows for the different products of those environments.
Sabrina Peters-Whitehead
Critically Assessing OWL Technologies: Ethical Implications for
Designing Virtual Online Writing Center Spaces
This presentation explores the ethical implications for design strategies
for both synchronous and asynchronous OWL spaces by drawing on
theories of usability testing and user-centered design. Additionally, this
presentation examines the ethical implications of addressing issues of
interdisciplinary learning, global learning, cultural mediation, and community
when choosing OWL technologies and developing OWL sites.
Joanna Castner
A New Critical Framework for E-Pedagogical Trends
This presentation will present the results of an analysis of the rhetoric
of technological innovation conducted in order to uncover the ethical
assumptions upon which it is based. Then an analysis of the current
practices in online pedagogy will be analyzed and compared with
the kind of moral action advocated by innovation rhetoric. Next, this
presentation will present a critical analysis of both the ethics of
innovation rhetoric and of online pedagogical trends.
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