This marks the last week of the conference, and I recommend these excellent conference events to you.

2/21-2/25 E-Forum #4:
"From Management to Assessment, Reflection to Representation -Exploring the Array of Digital Portfolios' Purposes, Audiences, and Development."

Troy Hicks, Michigan State University, Red Cedar Writing Project, and Paige V. Baggett, College of Education, Department of Leadership and Teacher Education, Mobile Bay Writing Project. Forum held at http://computersandwriting.org

2/22 Wednesday 6 - 7:30 p.m. CST (7 - 8:30 p.m. EST )

Keynote Conversation Starter Statements

"Computers & Writing—A Discipline?"
with Cynthia Selfe, Fred Kemp, James Inman, and Cheryl Ball.

Included in this document are statements prepared by our keynote speakers on this common topic:

What defines Computers & Writing as a discipline? Is it a discipline? What distinguishes it from the discipline of Composition and Rhetoric, for example, or Technical Communication? What research and what theory inform its pedagogy and practice? How are we defined on the job market and then what roles do we play within our academic departments?

What's up with CWOnline 2006! (http://english.ttu.edu/cw/CWO2006/)

Have you got your indispensable Conference Attending Guide?
-- http://english.ttu.edu/cw/CWO2006/CWonline2006_ConfGuide.pdf

E-Forum #3 starts 2/16 at Computers&Writing.org— http://computersandwriting.org
"Writing on the Computer: Craft or Knack?" Shaun Slattery (http://condor.depaul.edu/~sslatte1/CWO2006/) and "Online Work: Theories, Challenges, and Perspectives." Pavel Zemliansky & Kirk St. Amant's co-presentation.
--This asynchronous presentation has a Tech Comm theme and lasts through 2/20.

CWOnline 2006 Symposium—2/18 from 10 AM-3PM CST

CWOnline 2006 begins today!

The first E-Forum session runs from 2/6-2/10:
"No More Grocery Store Tomatoes: Using Homebrewed Content Management Systems in the Writing Classroom." Michael Haynes and Marc Pietrzykowski, Georgia State University.

Visit the ComputersandWriting site to read the first post by the presenters: http://computersandwriting.org/ (The abstract of their presentation is included below.)

Also, make plans to visit the Tuesday Night Café Reunion tomorrow evening, Tuesday Feb. 7th, from 8-9 (EST) in TTU English MOO http://moo.engl.ttu.edu:7000/
Tari Fanderclai will host this event!

Computers & Writing Online 2006 starts in less than a week! If you have not yet registered, you can register (for free!) at http://english.ttu.edu/cw/CWO2006/Form/Form.html

This year's conference has something for everyone, so let me highlight the feature events:

2/7 Tuesday Night Café Reunion—hosted by Tari Fanderclai, 8-9 PM EST in TTU MOO.
This should be like old times for many Netoric Project folks, and give those who never experienced those Tuesday Night Café's a chance to experience one.

2/6-2/28 E-Forum Asynchronous Presentations—The E-Forum contains four presentations lasting five days each. It will be held within the ComputersandWriting.org site. http://www.computersandwriting.org

Just a quick note to say that registration for Computers & Writing Online 2006 is live and ready to go. Visit http://english.ttu.edu/cw/CWO2006/ to register.

From the conference home page, you will also find a list of all the presentations accepted for the conference. We have an excellent line up of presentations, and I hope you are making travel plans to attend now:

E-Forum asynchronous presentations Feb. 6-28
Tuesday Night Café Reunion Feb 7
Symposium—-real-time presentations, poster sessions, and keynote conversation Feb. 18 10-3 PM CST.

We also have in the works some special GRN (Graduate Research Network) events, and we are working on a recreation of the infamous Technorhetorician's Bar & Grill complete with Lou the bartender.

Dear Colleagues--

We have had an enthusiastic response to the CFP for Computers & Writing Online 2006 and have received many excellent proposals. Because we are still reviewing and have received requests for extensions, we will continue to accept proposals through December 12. I believe there was some question about this, and we wanted to clarify.

Many thanks.

Pam

(This update on the CFP situation put together by Pam Brewer who is part of the CWOnline 2006 Conference organizing committee.)

cross-posted to ATTW, TechRhet, encore

I am pleased to announce that the "Keynote Conversation" at the Computers & Writing Online 2006 Symposium on February 18th will include four of the top scholars in our field.

Cynthia Selfe, Fred Kemp, James Inman, and Cheryl Ball have agreed to join this "conversation" from 1:30-2:40 CST on 2/18/06. This should be quite an event, so make plans to attend! (Discussion topic to be announced.)

I also want to make another pitch for presentation proposals for CWOnline 2006. The deadline for proposals is 11/30, but we are considering extending the deadline into December (more on that soon). Here again is the CFP: http://english.ttu.edu/cw/CWO2006/CFP_CWonline2006.pdf

Hi Everyone,

Last week the CFP for CWOnline 2006 went out, and I thought I would follow this week with a brief conference preview so you know what to expect with this year's conference.

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CW Online Conference Description

The conference is earlier and a bit shorter: Feb. 6-28
CWOnline 2007 will also be in February, so this date may be a permanent shift in dates for the CWOnline Conference. CWOnline 2006 is just the first year for this timeframe.

Asynchronous presentation sessions will be conducted via a Drupal site (like last year).

This is a forwarded message that I though some of you might be interested in. I have used ComPile a number of times, and find it to be a great resourse. It sounds like it is getting better.
Lennie
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