CW2001 Program - Computers and Writing

Friday
11:15 — 12:30 Session B.3
From a Distance:
Reflections on Distance Learning
RB 107
Judi Kirkpatrick, moderator
Jonathan Alexander and Michelle Gibson
Negotiating Space: Computer Technology, Distance Learning, and
Interactive Pedagogy
Our presentation is the story of negotiations — most specifically of
our maddeningly slow but increasingly successful work to convince
administrators to rely more on computer (interactive) pedagogy than
on video (static) pedagogy. In the process of tracing these negotiations,
we discuss how important it is to interrogate faculty and administrative
pre/mis-conceptions so that we can ultimately work productively within
administrative limitations while maintaining pedagogical integrity.
Susan Delagrange and Marcia Dickson
Distance Learning: Sites of Resistance, Sites of Learning
Distance learning has become both a cause for celebration and
grounds for concern — depending upon the perspective of those who
find themselves engaged in working over the wires. The presenters,
who have worked as a collaborative team, reflect upon the business
and the pedagogical enterprise inherent in offering both composition
and literature courses as distance learning classes. Chief among their
concerns are the spaces which must be negotiated in order to provide
quality courses and the sites of resistance shaped by gender, age, and
social status that develop in those spaces.
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