>Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 00:18:46 -0500
>From: Margaret Procter <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Inkshed 2000 proposal
>
>Rick
>
>I can't find a way to transmit the registration form via the
>web address given, and there's no valid e-mail address or
>fax number on the printed form. So I'll set things out this
>way. Let me know if you need another format.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Margaret.
>
>...............
>
>NAME Margaret Procter
>INSTITUTION University of Toronto
>MAILING ADDRESS UC 173, 15 King's College Circle
> Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H7
>PHONE h. 416 975-9486
> w. 416 978-8109
>FAX 416 971-2027
>E-MAIL [log in to unmask]
>
>TITLE Doing it Their Own Way: Online Discussion as
>Resistance and Reconstruction of Writing to Learn
>
>PROPOSAL
>My five-minute talk will introduce the hypertext pages that
>I'll create for the conference and bring on disk. (I'm
>assuming that computers will be available, not necessarily
>online -- otherwise I'll bring a poster with layers of
>hard-copy pages.) My exhibit will give a sense of the
>dynamics in online discussion groups from three university
>courses: Literary Theory, North American Economic History,
>and Cell Biology. The courses all require students to take
>part in asynchronous group discussion online -- a new but
>suddenly common form of writing assignment that promises
>(among other virtues) to give students practice in academic
>thinking and writing.
>
>The exhibit will show students creating their own styles and
>modes of communication, not always respectful of academic
>culture. My arrangement and annotation will raise issues
>that I hope conference participants will discuss further:
>the effects of various kinds of instructor intervention, the
>place of non- or anti-academic persuasion (including
>insistence on fundamentalist religious viewpoints), and the
>non-standard language use. All these elements often
>undermine, sometimes parody, and occasionally extend
>official academic discourse. The exhibit will also contain
>a series of short mini-essays setting out some of my
>reflections on the pedagogical and theoretical implications
>of the data, with hypertext links to relevant published
>material. It will integrate an online "guestbook" for
>computer inkshedding.
>
>The exhibit will present student data without names or other
>identifying information. Students have given their informed
>consent for my use of their texts. This research is a
>project in EvNet, a SSHRC-funded strategic research network
>that assesses the uses of technology in education and
>training.
>
>--
>(Dr.) Margaret Procter
>University of Toronto
>Coordinator, Writing Support
>15 King's College Circle
>Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H7
>
>(416) 978-8109; FAX (416) 971-2027
>http://www.library.utoronto.ca/writing
>
(Prof.) Richard M. Coe
English Department
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
CANADA
(604) 291-4316
(FAX: 291-5737
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