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).
The conference will be using the ComputersandWriting.org Drupal site. There will be four different presentation sessions, each of five days.

CWOnline Symposium—This is NEW!
On Feb. 18th from 10-3 (CST) there will be a virtual conference with real-time synchronous gatherings. The Symposium will have a keynote conversation, concurrent presentation sessions, and even virtual poster sessions. The Symposium (if all goes well) will be held in an enCore Learning Environment running the new version 5 with improved usability features.

Graduate Research Network
The conference will integrate some activities with the GRN. Janice Walker is working with the CWOnline2006 organizing committee to work out the details. Stay tuned.

Special Events
Tuesday Night Café Reunion—Tari Fanderclai will host a "reunion" of sorts of the Tuesday Night Café on Feb. 7th from 8-9 EST.
Other events—to be announced (scrabble anyone?)

Important Dates:
11/30/05—Proposals Due
1/1/06—Conference Registration begins
2/6/06—Conference begins
2/7/06—Tuesday Night Café Reunion
2/18/06—CWOnline Symposium

We hope you will make plans to attend this year's conference, and definitely to submit a proposal to present.

Here again is the conference website and the CFP:
http://english.ttu.edu/cw/cwo2006/default.html
http://english.ttu.edu/cw/cwo2006/CFP_CWonline2006.pdf

Please contact me if you have any questions about this year's conference. Also, feel free to pass on information about this conference.

Cheers,

Lennie

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