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| CCCC Online | http://www.ncte.org/cccc/98/ ----------------------------- * Acknowledgements * Plotting and Scheming for 1999 * Online proposal submission * Extending the conversations ---------------- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ---------------- CCCC has, since 1995, provided some support for CCCC Online by providing money to pay for student assistants. Last year, the CCCC Executive Committee increased support by agreeing to fund a web publishing internship program. Rather than being assistants, the web interns would be the designers and producers of CCCC Online. I'd like to give a big thanks to the talented and hard-working group of pioneer web publishing interns. Collin Brooke Kirsten Hale Mike Jackman John Logie As is often the case during the early times of a new program, we kind of felt our way along, making things up as we went, and they did wonderful work in spite of numerous technical glitches and persistent uncertainty. I would also like to thank two people who helped with computer support at the convention. Walli Andersen (who for years managed the Computer Connection booth) and Susan Halter did everything from hauling machines around to fiddling with recalcitrant software. They were up early and stayed late doing the unglamorous and thankless work that makes the technology part of the show possible. Cool machinery makes fun stuff possible, but people like Collin, Kirsten, Mike, John, Walli, and Susan make it *actual.* --------------------- PLOTTING AND SCHEMING --------------------- For the past couple of years we've had web forums for kicking around ideas, finding partners, and giving shape to proposals for the next year's CCCC convention. It's been fun to use such a forum because it sort of makes the process feel more like a community event, something we construct together rather than in isolation, each doing our own thing. This year's forum can be found at http://www.ncte.org/forums/99cfp/ Please feel free to post ideas, invite colleagues to join you in proposing sessions, workshops, SIGs, etc., and even post drafts of abstracts. Whatever you find useful to the process of proposing a presentation for CCCC/99 in Atlanta, do. -------------------------- ONLINE PROPOSAL SUBMISSION -------------------------- Last year, as a pilot project, we offered the possibility of sending proposals via the web. The option was limited to proposals in two topic clusters. We plan to continue the pilot this year (there are still procedural matters that have to be worked out and tested). It will still be limited, but perhaps will include another cluster or two so we can get more participation. It's only by *doing* this that we can figure out how to do this :) The online proposal form is not ready to go just yet, but for those who wish to consult the CFP anyway or perhaps print and mail rather than submit online, copies can be found at http://www.ncte.org/cccc/99/99cfp.html or http://www.ncte.org/cccc/99/99cfp.pdf (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader, which can be obtained for free from http://www.adobe.com/acrobat/) --------------------------- EXTENDING THE CONVERSATIONS --------------------------- The convention is over, but the conversations we started there need not end. Just a reminder to everyone that the whole point of CCCC Online is to serve as a means to escape the economic, geographic, and temporal boundaries of the convention, to extend our conversations past that event and include more people than can make it to any given conference session. With that in mind, presenters should consider the invitation still open to share some portrayal of their work, whether full papers, abstracts, notes, images, whatever. http://www.ncte.org/cccc/98/contrib.html to contribute something to CCCC Online (but let me know if you have any trouble with the form or would like to submit stuff some other way). And anyone interested in composition studies should consider the invitation still open to talk about the compelling issues we wrestle with these days by responding to the ideas and research presented by those on the program. http://www.ncte.org/cccc/98/forums.html --Eric Crump