CW2001 Program - Computers and Writing

10:00 — 11:30 Session G.8
Basic Life Support for Faculty
RB 108
Scott Blackwell, moderator
Ashley Crump
Living Through It:
Practical Ways to Survive Your First Year
as a Networked Classroom Newbie
Walking into her first classroom, the new teacher discovers she is
completely unprepared for the reality of the computerized composition
class. Quickly, she discovers that she can’t lead a revolution when the
troops are too busy surfing the net to listen to marching orders.
Dickie Selfe
Sustainable Practices:
Avoiding Drive-By Technological Inoculations
Authors Nardi and O’Day suggest we look at these “examples of
responsible, informed, engaged interactions among people and
advanced information technologies [. . .] as information ecologies”
(Information Ecologies, 24). I draw from these examples generalizable
strategies for avoiding drive-by technological inoculations.
Pamela Takayoshi
Technology Shaping Work
I consider what we in computers and composition have done to
make our issues more accessible to composition (that is, what moves
have we made outward, rather than expecting others to join us in our
conference, our journal, etc.) as a way of thinking toward inserting our
professional voice into the national and local debates about technology.
In this sense, the meanings of my title are two fold: technology shapes
the labor of composition workers at the same time that composition
workers can work to shape understandings of technology.
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