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THE ELEVENTH ANNUAL

Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing (GPACW) Conference

 

Conference Program
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Form for Questions Prompted by
Presentations and Workshops

Locations for Presentations and Workshops:

Conference registration and November 8 sessions will be held in the Mund Library on the DSU Campus, as will breakfast on November 9. November 9 workshops will be held in Beadle Hall, which is also on the DSU Campus. Parking will be available in the parking lot next to the Library (please do not park in spaces that have been marked with a red stripe).

 

Campus Map (PDF)

Campus Map (web based, interactive)
 

Conference Weather Forecast
as of Sunday, November 4

This year's title: Information Management and the Teaching of Writing

November 8 & 9, 2007, hosted by Dakota State University, Madison, South Dakota

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A Note about GPACW Conference Accommodations


The conference hotel for this year's GPACW conference is the AmericInn in Madison, South Dakota. Attendees desiring accommodations at a conference rate of $69 plus tax should call the Madison AmericInn directly at 605-256-3076 to reserve a room in the GPACW block. (It is not possible to reserve a room through the AmericInn corporate web site.)

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Keynote speaker: Dr. Richard (Dickie) Selfe,
Senior Instructional Technology Consultant
at tOhio State University

Dr. Richard (Dickie) Selfe

At tOSU, Dr. Richard (Dickie) Selfe consults across the College of Humanities on instructional technology projects and designs support systems for CoH teachers. His academic interests lie at the intersection of communication pedagogies, programmatic curricula, and the social/institutional influences of digital systems.  more >>>

This conference is open to anyone faculty (full-time, adjunct, and teaching assistant), graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students interested in any aspect of teaching writing with computers. We especially encourage collaborations between instructors and their graduate and/or advanced undergraduate students.

Papers that hew more closely to this year's theme might explore questions such as these:

  • How are digital information management tools (including database search techniques and the aggregation of syndicated, web based content) changing the way teachers and students treat writing?
  • How can we use online information management tools such as social bookmarking and media sharing web sites in the classroom? To what ends?
  • How have mass digital multimedia publishing and multimedia search tools changed the information / rhetorical landscape?
  • What are the relationships between information literacy, computer literacy, and writing instruction?
  • What is the connection between information management and collaboration?
  • How may information management tools and techniques be used to address the demands of technical communication (such as single source writing)?
  • And what of new media in this age of YouTube? How can we teach students to critically receive as well as communicate in new media forms?
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Please send a 250-word abstract with panel or paper proposal information including title of paper(s), and name, address, email, blog URL(s) and affiliation of presenter(s) by October 1, 2007. Panels are scheduled for one hour with reading time for individual papers/presentations of no more than 15 minutes.

Send proposals via e-mail to Dr. Dan Weinstein, College of Arts and Sciences, Dakota State University, at dan.weinstein@dsu.edu.