Standard cross-posting apologies apply...
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| CCCC/98 Online
| http://www.ncte.org/cccc/98/
| Where the convention leaks into cyberspace!
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News about...
* Opportunities for Presenters to Publish
* Web Forums
* MOO Sessions
* Workshop enrollments
* Coming attractions
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| Opportunities for Presenters:
| http://www.ncte.org/cccc/98/contrib.html
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We invite all CCCC presenters to share something of their
work and ideas online prior to the event. This is a chance
to be kind to colleagues who can't make it to Chicago or,
if there, can't make it to your session. The payoff, in
addition to that warm feeling of collegiality, is the
potential for getting reactions from and some interaction
with folks who are interested in your work. Conversations
prior to the convention have been known to help folks
refine and reshape their presentations.
For the past couple of years, the number of contributions
to CCCC Online have remained fairly steady. I'm hoping we
can grow a bit this year. The more information we add to
the pile, the richer and more useful CCCC Online becomes
as a place for conversation and as an information resource.
So this year I'd like to urge presenters to think of this
as an opportunity to *portray* your ideas, in whatever
form they might be in, a chance to introduce ideas and
provoke conversation about them. That means what you
share online need not be a faithful representation of
your presentation (some of us can't say exactly what
our presentations will look like until we deliver them!).
This is a different kind of publishing than we're used to.
It's purpose is conversation. It's function as a record of
the event is important, but secondary. Each presenter who
contributes something has the option of creating a web
forum to host discussion on the topic at hand.
As always, we provide a web contribution form for your
convenience:
http://www.ncte.org/cccc/98/contrib.html
but our main goal is to help make the collection as
complete as possible, so if for some reason the web form
doesn't work for you, information can be sent via email
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versions can be sent via snailmail (1111 W. Kenyon Road,
Urbana, IL 61801-1096, attn: Eric Crump).
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| Conversations: Web Forums
| http://www.ncte.org/cccc/98/forums.html
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The point of conventions is conversation. Online we simply
use different tools and different places to pursue our
discussions. This year CCCC Online is using Ceilidh, a
web forum program by Lilikoi Software.
Current foruns include:
* Teaching Writing for Social Change
an online roundtable with Patricia Bizzell,
Marilyn Cooper, Gail Okawa, Harriet Malinowitz,
and Ellen Cushman
http://www.hu.mtu.edu/cccc/98/
* Responding to Works in Progress On(Off)-Line
featuring papers by Nancy Grimm and Nancy Welch
http://www.hu.mtu.edu/cccc/98/
* Roommate Search & Hotel Info
http://www.ncte.org/forums/roomies/ceilidh.htm
* Service Learning SIG
http://www.ncte.org/forums/service/
* Service Learning and English Studies
(including the full text of the College English
article by Aaron Schutz and Anne Gere
http://www.ncte.org/forums/sles/
* Plotting and Scheming: Developing Proposals for
CCCC/99
http://www.ncte.org/forums/99cfp/
And if anybody wants a place to talk about something not
represented above, please visit the forums page,
http://www.ncte.org/cccc/98/forums.html
and request that a new forum be added to the group.
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| Conversations: MOO Sessions
| http://lingua.utdallas.edu/
| http://www.ncte.org/chat/mudinfo.html
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C-Fest, the series of discussions hosted at LinguaMOO by
Cynthia Haynes and Jan Rune Holmevik, is in full swing now,
with weekly meetings alternating between Wednesday and
Thursday eventings. The next meeting will be Wednesday,
March 18 and 8 p.m. EST.
For more information about the series' themes and topics,
as well as instructions for how to connect, see
http://lingua.utdallas.edu:7000/4005
ncteMUD, a fledging virtual world, is also available for
anyone who would like to hold realtime meetings to talk
about presentations, about committee business, about, er,
anything at all that's somehow relevant to CCCC or NCTE.
http://www.ncte.org/mudinfo.html
http://www.ncte.org/mudhelp.html
http://mud.ncte.org:8888/apply
(to obtain a character)
http://mud.ncte.org:8888/login
(to login with a web browser)
http://mud.ncte.org/ncteMUD/java
(to login with java-capable browser)
mud.ncte.org 4096
(to login with MUD clients or telnet)
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| Workshop Enrollments:
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Advance registration is now closed, but if you plan to
register on-site and want to see whether a workshop
you're interested in is still open, visit
http://www.ncte.org/cccc/98/4c-workshop.html
The schedule for the registration booth is at
http://www.ncte.org/cccc/98/calendar.htm
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| Coming Attractions:
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The CCCC Web Team is hard at work. Look for restaurant
guides, Chicago highlights, and the program book to
appear on the web soon.
The call for proposals for CCCC/99 is available now in
PDF format, so if you have Adobe Acrobat Reader (which
can be downloaded for free from http://www.adobe.com)
you can view or print the document from
http://www.ncte.org/cccc/99/99cfp.pdf
The HTML version of the CFP will be available next week
at
http://www.ncte.org/cccc/99/99cfp.html
If there's anything you'd like to see on the CCCC Online
web site that isn't currently there, please don't
hesitate to let us know!
--Eric Crump
on behalf of the CCCC Web Team
(John Logie, Collin Brooke, Kirsten Hale, Mike Jackman)
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