The University Writing Program at Virginia Tech is hosting the Mid-Atlantic
Alliance for Computers and Writing Conference on October 4-5. Please share
the program below with your listserv colleagues if you think it is
appropriate to their interests.
Thank you.
Amy Crumpton
THE MID-ATLANTIC ALLIANCE FOR COMPUTERS AND WRITING
netWORKS: Connecting Learners Across the Curriculum
October 4-5, 1996
Donaldson Brown Hotel and Conference Center Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginia
Hosted by: The University Writing Program at Virginia Tech
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4
8:00 am - 9:00 am: Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 am - 10:00 am: Welcome Donaldson Brown Auditorium
Jim Laughlin, Consultant, University Writing Program
Lisa Norris, Consultant, University Writing Program
Susan Brooker-Gross, Associate Provost for Undergraduate Studies
Plenary Session
TECHNOLOGY AT VIRGINIA TECH
John Moore, Educationa Technologies, Virginia Tech
Valerie Hardcastle, Department of Philosophy, Virginia Tech
Len Hatfield, Department of English, Virginia Tech
10:00 am - 10:15 am Break. Refreshments served in main hallway outside
auditorium.
10:15 am - 12:00 am CONCURRENT SESSIONS
SESSION 1: DISTANCE LEARNING FRONTIERS
Donaldson Brown Conference Room A
Presider: Katherine Hall, Virginia Tech
The Prose-Zine: An Interactive Electronic, Class Text for an Emerging
Paperless Pedagogy
Sue Liggett and Miller Newman, Montgomery College
Interactivity in the Multiple-Site Classroom
Phyllis B. Oakes and Cathy Barlow, Morehead State University
Taking English On-line: Writing Across the Miles
David Sharpe, Ohio University
SESSION 2: CRITICAL THINKING IN CYBERSPACE
Donaldson Brown Board Room
Presider: Jay Swami, Virginia Tech
Teaching Political Theory Using the Internet
Chris Couples and Tim Luke, Virginia Tech
And Now for Something Different: http://xroads.virginia.edu
Alan B. Howard, University of Virginia
"But Where Is It?": A Communication Theory Course Teaches Orienteering in
Cyberspace
Judith Yaross Lee and Andrew Wood, Ohio University
SESSION 3: MATHEMATICS AND WRITING
Donaldson Brown Committee Room
Computer Algebra Systems as an Aid in Teaching Scientific Writing
Paul R. Bouthellier, Mount Senario College
Using Writing and Technology in Math to Promote Learning Skills in Business
Calculus
Margaret P. McQuain and Deborah B. Smith, Virginia Tech
Teaching Mathematical Writing Skills - Making a Change While Staying in Context
Morris Orzech, Queen's University
SESSION 4: E-LITERACY
Donaldson Brown Conference Room F
Presider: Michael Atkins, Virginia Tech
E-Literacy: Renegotiating Pedagogy in Electronic Environments
William Stokes, Lesley College
George Branigan, Stonehill College
Peter Stokes, SUNY at Stony Brook
SESSION 5: SECOND LANGUAGE EXPERIENCES
Donaldson Brown Auditorium
Presider: Cindy Scott, Virginia Tech
Computer Generated Feedback Encourages Writing Process in Business Writing
EFL Classes
Judy F. Chen, The Overseas Chines College of Commerce
The Faceless Audience: A Pivotal Link in Second Language Writing
Deborah Gill, University of Southern California and Theresa Minick, Kent
State University
Crossing Borders in Second Language Acquisition: Writing and the Internet
Theresa Minick, Kent State University
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch Keynote
REPRESENTING OURSELVES (AND OUR STUDENTS) ONLINE:
WHEN THE VISUAL COMES INTO PLAY
Gail E. Hawisher, Director of the Center for Writing Studies
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Donaldson Brown Auditorium
Recent studies of writing and technology have begun to critique the
adequacy of egalitarian narratives for describing e-space. Instead of
viewing the internet as a space that often masks our differences, some see
women and other underepresented groups as net victims, often unduly
harassed on listservs and news groups. More recent work argues that the
online environment is neither an egalitarian utopia nor a space devoid of
communicative power for women and men. As of yet, however, the field has
paid little attention to what happens when the verbal online context is
transformed into the visual space of the World Wide Web. How, for example,
do women and others represent themselves on home pages and how do we as
teachers represent our students? As we visually construct ourselves online,
what issues do we consider and how do we understand others' online
construction of ourselves? In other words, what happens to our online lives
when the visual comes into play?
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS
SESSION 6: COMPOSITION AND COMPUTERS
Donaldson Brown Conference Room A
Presider: Michael Attisano, Virginia Tech
Teaching Virtual Composition Classes: A Retrospective
Virginia Montecino and Mary Lou Crouch, George Mason University
A Fully Interactive Freshman Composition Course
Frank Peters, Terry Reilly and Tim Phillips, Bloomsburg University, and
Chip Peters, University of Hartford
The Electronic Poe: Teaching By Constructing a Web Site
David Tomlinson, US Naval Academy
SESSION 7: VIRTUAL PEDAGOGY
Donaldson Brown Board Room
Presider: Chris Phipps, Virginia Tech
Dialectic or Diatribe? And What Happened to the Teacher? Assessing Three
Years of Synchronous Conferences in the Writing Classroom
Joe Essid and Chris Trible, University of Richmond
The Computer is Down - and so am I
Lisa Faranda, Penn State University
Learning to Teach Mathematics with Hypermedia
Melvin R. Wilson, University of Michigan Gwendolyn M. Lloyd, Virginia Tech
SESSION 8: RESEARCH AND REFLECTIONS
Donaldson Brown Committee Room
Presider: Sharon McGuire, Virginia Tech
The Online Tutor as Cross-Curricular Double Agent
Patricia Ericsson, Dakota State University Tim McGee, The College of New Jersey
Gender Distinctions and the Internet: Observations for Reflection,
Implications for Teaching
Felicia Mitchell, Emory and Henry College
Testing Writing on Computer: Results of a Pilot Experiment to Compare
Student Responses to the Same Items Taken via Computer or via Paper and
Pencil
Mike Russell, Boston College
Tutoring and the ETE: Differences Encountered in Electronic Tutoring
Marc Zaldivar, Virginia Tech
SESSION 9: SCIENCE, STATISTICS AND WRITING
Donaldson Brown Auditorium
Presider: Jack Huber, Virginia Tech
Making Chemistry Connections by Cruising the Information Superhighway: The
Creation and Implementation of a General Chemistry WWW Home Page
James H. Burness, Penn State York
Multifunctional Writing Project in Ecology, Zoology, Wildlife Management or
Conservation Biology
Robert H. Giles, Jr., Virginia Tech
Writing in a Statistics Course
Charlie Jacobson, Elmira College
SESSION 10: DESIGNING AN ONLINE COURSE WORKSHOP
Major Williams Room 502
Presider: J. Beth Mabry, Virginia Tech
Dees Stallings, University Online
This workshop takes the mystery out of designing an online course. It
covers the basics through multimedia. Those attending the workshop should
leave having a good framework for teaching their first online course,
adding an online component to the traditional course they have, or
improving any online instructions they are already doing.
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Break. Refreshments served in Conference Room G.
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS
SESSION 11: E-MAIL MENTORING
Donaldson Brown Conference Room F
Presider: J. Beth Mabry, Virginia Tech
Linking Learners On-Line: E-Mail Mentoring Links between Advanced
Psychology Students and Freshman Majors
Terry Myers Zawacki, James F. Sanford, Mary T. Kruck, and Tammy Land
Walker, George Mason University
SESSION 12: WEB WORKSHOP
Newman Library New Media Center
Presider: Angela Fiquet, Virginia Tech
Teaching Research Writing for Academic Purposes: Effective Uses of the
World Wide Web
Elizabeth Cooper, Virginia Commonwealth University
This session addresses issues, theories, practices, and problems of
"researched writing" in the computer age. The primary focus is on research
issues of teaching with the WWW with a secondary focus on the needed
balance and interaction between writing processes and written products.
SESSION 13: WEAVING A TECHNO-HUMANITIES
Donaldson Brown Conference Room A
Presider: Kelly Anderson, Virginia Tech
The Electronic Tutor and Bridging the Gap between Word and Image
Jane Andrews Aiken, Leila Bailey Van Hook, Michael Leahy and Pat Bevan,
Virginia Tech
What We Talk About When We Talk About Electronic Textbooks
Sally Greene and John Ayers, University of Virginia
Multimedia for Liberal Arts Courses: Teaching Students to Analyze Primary
Sources
Deborah Vess, DeKalb College
SESSION 14: DAEDALUS AND ESL WORKSHOP
Major Williams Room 502
Presider: Jim Dwight, Virginia Tech
Using Daedalus in an Intensive Writing Class for ESL Students
Catherine Dennison and Kiley Thompson, Virginia Tech
Presenters demonstrate the Daedalus Integrated Writing Environment, a tool
for use in classes where students are seeking to improve their language use
skills for academic, business and personal reasons.
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Social Hour Donaldson Brown Old Guard Room
Sponsored by Bedford * Freeman * St. Martin's* Worth
Scientific American/St. Martin's College Publishing Group
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Dinner Keynote
HYPERTEXT DREAMS: THE DESIGNS OF WRITING
Edward Falco
Associate Professor of English, Virginia Tech
Ed Falco discusses the ways writers and poets are approaching hypertext as
a writing tool. He will read selections of hypertexts, including his
forthcoming hypertext novel, A Dream with Demons.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5
8:00 am - 9:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 am - 10:00 am EPIPHANY PROJECT POLY-VOCAL PLENARY
Donaldson Brown Auditorium
Michael Keller, Virginia Commonwealth University
Elizabeth Cooper, Virginia Commonwealth University
Dona Hickey, University of Richmond
Judy Williamson, American University
Trent Batson, Gallaudet University
Greg Ritter, Gallaudet University
Ron Corio, Virginia Commonwealth University
Joe Essid, University of Virginia
Ann Woodlief, Virginia Commonwealth University
Amy Shipe, University of Richmond
Donna Reiss, Tidewater Community College
10:00 am - 10:15 am Break. Refreshments served in main hallway outside
auditorium.
10:15 am - 12:00 am CONCURRENT SESSIONS
SESSION 15: MATHEMATICA WORKSHOP
McBryde Hall Room 124
Kenneth Hannsgen and Linda Powers, Virginia Tech
Math teachers are exploring what it means to communicate their subject now
that the hours spent on computational drills appear to be unnecessary. This
session demonstrates the capabilities of Mathematica, a software system
widely used at Virginia Tech. An open-ended, hands-on workshop follows in
which participants are invited try out the program and speculate on how it
can be combined with writing to promote conceptual development in
mathematics or other fields.
SESSION 16: MUSE MEETS MOUSE WORKSHOP
Newman Library New Media Center
Presider: Kristin, Hauger, Virginia Tech
The Muse and the Mouse: Learning the High Arts in a Low-Tech (or High-Tech)
Environment
Dona Hickey, University of Richmond
Donna Reiss, Tidewater Community College
Amy Shipe, University of Richmond
This hands-on workshop models activities that help students think and write
about literature using electronic conferencing. Participants will read and
discuss a poem using computer-supported reflective conversations. Although
the subject matter of this workshop focuses on literature, the
activities,based on writing-for-learning pedagogy, will benefit students in
writing classes as well.
SESSION 17: MOOSPACES WORKSHOP
Williams Hall Room 221
Teaching in MOOspaces: An Interactive Workshop
Judy Williamson, American University
Peter Sands, University of Maine
Claudine Keenan, Penn State Allentown
MOOs (Multi-User Dimensions, Object-Oriented) are interactive,
collaborative and lively environments. This workshop will demonstrate the
power of MOOs for teaching and learning critical thinking and writing
skills. Activities include introducing the MOO to fellow teachers and
students, teaching collaborative intervention techniques in MOOspace as
well as refining collaborative revision strategies in MOOspace.
SESSION 18: Curriculum Connections
Donaldson Brown Conference Room A
Connecting Learners Across the Curriculum via Technology: Let me Count the Ways
Barbara Hutson, Virginia Tech
Lessons Learned from the Art/Fax Project
Sally Laughon, Virginia Tech
SESSION 19: USING COMPUTERS IN TODAY'S CLASSROOM WORKSHOP
Major Williams Room 502
Presider: Joe Boyle, Virginia Tech
Rita Wills, Canon Middle School, Las Vegas, Nevada
The focus of this session is preparing students for the challenges they
will face in the future by empowering them with the skills necessary to
survive in the work place. Teaching strategies, lesson plans, ways to use
technology in education, and ideas for a paperless classroom will be
shared. Participants will be exposed to creating a personal folder on the
computer, experiencing on-screen composition, participating in networked
conferencing, publishing, and sharing pieces produced in session.
SESSION 20: REDEFINING THE TEACHER
Donaldson Brown Conference Room F
Presider: Katie Pendergast, Virginia Tech
What Good is a Teacher in the Computer Classroom?
Elizabeth Cooper, Michael Keller, and Ann Woodlief, Virginia Commonwealth
University
12:00 am - 1:30 pm Lunch Keynote
NETS THAT WORK: REALIZING THE WEB'S
POTENTIAL FOR LEARNING
Dees Stallings, Director of
Educational Development at University Online
Donaldson Brown Auditorium
This live online presentation allows participants to experience the
excitement and effectiveness of the mulitlevel, multimedia environment of
online learning, especially focused on the development of writing skills.
Dees Stallings tours a nationwide college business communications course on
the World Wide Web that combines the most advanced educational delivery
technology available today with many familiar writing instruction
techniques. The course features multimedia "screenscam" lecturettes, a
virtual classroom allowing HTML and graphics capabilities for students and
instructor alike, and interactive resource and testing areas in a secure
environment accessible to any student with a graphical browser. Throughout
the tour, practical techniques will be provided for instructors to develop
a implement online writing instruction for their courses in wide variety of
settings, from traditional to interactive TV. Participants will be able to
visualize not only the way the Web-based computer conference environment
allows instructors to "weave" together an extraordinarily rich tapestry of
learning resources for their class, but also how courses themselves can be
networked via a strong "electronic fabric" to connect learners across the
curriculum.
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1:30 pm - 3:30 pm SPECIAL STRATEGIES SESSION
Donaldson Brown Auditorium
SESSION 21: STRATEGIES FOR TECHNOLOGICALLY-ENLIGHTENED PEDAGOGIES
Presider: Betty Etzler, Virginia Tech
Peter Sands, University of Maine
Claudine Keenan, Penn State, Allentown
Michael Keller, Virginia Commonwealth University
Elizabeth Cooper, Virginia Commonwealth University
Dona Hickey, University of Richmond
Judy Williamson, American University
Trent Batson, Gallaudet University
Greg Ritter, Gallaudet University
Ron Corio, Virginia Commonwealth University
Joe Essid, University of Virginia
Donna Reiss, Tidewater Community College
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1:30 pm - 3:00 pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS
SESSION 22: LIT WORKSHOP
Donaldson Brown Conference Room C
Presider: Katherine Lynde
Literature Initiative in Technology
Len Hatfield, Karen Swenson, and Randy Patton, Virginia Tech
SESSION 23: ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIES
Donaldson Brown Conference Room A
Presider: Charles Hughes, Virginia Tech
Evolving a Distributed Learning Community
Brad Cox, George Mason University
Collaborative Writing Strategies With Computers in a Technical Writing Course
Pratul Pathak, California University of Pennsylvania
Creating Electronic Writing Communities
Catherine C. Wadbrook, Texas A&M University, Kingsville
SESSION 24: EXPLORING THE K-12 TERRAIN
Williams Hall Room 221
Presider: Allison Biggie, Virginia Tech
The Curriculum Consumers Information Service: Using the WWW to Choose,
Contribute, and Critique Instructional Materials
Susan Poland Giancola, University of Delaware
Becoming Readers and Writers: What it Means to be Literate
Nancy Metz, Virginia Tech, and Tammy Oliver, Margaret Beeks Elementary
The Internet in the High School English Class
Ted Nellen, Murry Bergtraum High School for Business Careers
SESSION 25: EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW WORKSHOP
Donaldson Brown Board Room
Lynne Boone Clement and John Clement
Any question related to the use of computers in writing instruction is fair
game in this session. Participants are invited to propose topics for
discussion in advance.
SESSION 26: WEB DOCUMENTS WORKSHOP
Newman Library New Media Center
Making and Serving World Wide Web Documents
Mark Hale, University of Florida, and Kirsten E. Hale, North Carolina State
University
Participants will learn how to create, link, and modigy World Wide Web
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) documents, and install them on Web
document servers (HTTP servers). Choosing and operating a Web document
server will also be discussed. Participants will receive instruction and
materials enabling them to conduct training on use of the Web for other
audiences.
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Break. Refreshments served in Conference Room G
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Closing Keynote
CONNECTING WITH STUDENTS: USING THE STUDENT-
TEACHER RELATIONSHIP TO PROMOTE LEARNING
Jeanette J. Norden
Associate Professor of Cell Biology, Vanderbilt Medical School
Donaldson Brown Auditorium
Jeanette Norden's talk focuses on how the power of the student-teacher
relationship can be used to motivate students to learn rather than to
perform. She believes that regardless of our teaching styles or our use of
technology, ultimately it is the connection with the student which is the
most important factor in student learning.
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REGISTRATION:
Registration fees are $95 for both days and $50 for one day. A special
rate for students is $40. Registration includes two continental
breakfasts, refreshments at breaks, two lunches, and a dinner. To
register, contact MAACW Conference Registration, Continuing Education,
Registrar, Donaldson Brown Hotel and Conference Center, Virginia Tech,
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0104; telephone 540-231-5182 or fax 540-231-3306.
A conference registration form is available on our web site at
http://www.phil.vt.edu/MAACW/
Amy Crumpton
Graduate Research Assistant
University Writing Program
VPI&SU
(540) 231-7568