GPACW Annual Conference - 2011

Conference Dates:

Friday - Saturday, October 21 - 22, 2011

Location:

Dakota State University, Madison, South Dakota, home of DSU's programs in English for New Media and Professional and Technical Communication

Conference Schedule (click to skip to it)

Conference Theme

New Ways of Reading / New Ways of Writing

Keynote Speaker:

Holladay Penick

Keynote Bio: Holladay Penick is the Creative Director of GiantChair, Inc., a company specializing in metadata distribution for the independent and academic publishing industry. She has also worked with the Institute for the Future of the Book on the development and implementation of educational tools, such as Commentpress and Sophie , as well as web-based Institute experiments, including The Golden Notebook Project . She has led workshops on open source technology at the University of Southern California, Columbia University and Georgetown University, and is a Visiting Scholar at New York University.

Proposals:

The 15th Annual Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing invites presentations related to the theme of new ways of reading and writing made possible by the many new spaces in which reading and writing take place today.

By "new spaces" we mean everything from Facebook to WordPress, from the IPad to the IPod, from InDesign to your email inbox. Wherever new ways of reading open new possibilities for writing in digital spaces, or where new ways of writing in digital spaces have engendered new possibilities for reading and defining literacy, we want to hear about it.

As always, we also welcome any presentations that enhance our understanding of the complex relationships among computers, computer-mediated technologies, and composition.

Submit A Proposal:

Please use the following forms to submit a proposal:

Proposed individual presentations should be expected to run about 15 minutes. Proposed group presentations / panels should be expected to run about 45 minutes. Proposals should be limited to 250 words.

Conference Registration:

To register for this year's GPACW conference, please use this registration form: [PDF] | [Word Doc]

For information, contact dan.weinstein@dsu.edu

Conference Schedule

Friday, October 21

Breakfast / On Site Registration in Mundt Foundation (Mundt Library, lower level) / 9:00am
(Parking is available in the Library parking lot and on nearby streets.)
(Internet Access is available through the "FreeDSU" open network. Just scan for it!

Session 1 / 9:30am - 10:30am - 201 Mundt Library

Micromessages and Amalgamated Composition: The Short and the Long of Writing in the Age of Micro Media