Review by Christian Smith Panelists Kathleen Blake Yancey, Florida State University Russell Carpenter, Eastern Kentucky University Edward D. Gomes, Jr., Duke University Susan Whitmer, Herman Miller Robert Beichner, North Carolina State University Given the theme of this year’s conference, the first Town Hall appropriately opened the conference with a thoughtful discussion of space and design in our educational practices. Due to the varied backgrounds of the speakers this was discussed from a variety of perspectives, though—by the end—a common theme did emerge: the need for spaces that were adaptable to a variety of pedagogical goals and could accommodate student difference.…
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Review by Crystal VanKooten Panelists Virginia Kuhn, University of Southern California Jim Brown, University of Wisconsin-Madison Liz Losh, University of California, San Diego Vicki Callahan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Mary Hocks, Georgia State University Aimee Knight, St. Joseph’s University Melanie Yergeau, University of Michigan Craig Dietrich, University of Southern California Viola Lasmana, University of Southern California Jentery Sayers (moderator), University of Victoria I sit in Tompkins 129 early Sunday morning, typing rapidly, sweating because it’s so hot in the room and we’re packed in like sardines. The panelists pop up and down, setting off five-minute firecrackers in my brain. In short,…
Review by Elizabeth Losh Panelists Genevieve Critel, The Ohio State University Kati Fargo Ahern, North Carolina State University Bump Halbritter, Michigan State University Cynthia Selfe, The Ohio State University This featured session continued a discussion begun in the 2006 special issue in Computers in Composition on “Sound in/as Composition Space” and given further urgency by Cynthia Selfe’s 2009 call to action, “The Movement of Air, the Breath of Meaning: Aurality and Multimodal Composing.” By thinking about sound from phenomenological and epistemological perspectives, the group challenged a number of truisms about multimodal rhetoric and interrogated the concept of authorial voice in…
Review by Moe Folk Panelists Terry Beers, Santa Clara University Bernhard Drax, Transmedia Producer Will Burdette, The University of Texas at Austin Olin Bjork, Santa Clara University Please explore the review within the map, or click below to open the review in full screen. View in a larger map. Moe Folk is an Assistant Professor of Digital Rhetoric and Multimodal Composition at Kutztown University and an assistant editor of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy.