THE TENTH ANNUAL

Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing (GPACW) Conference

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This year's title: Online pedagogies: Making space for social networks

November 10, 2006 hosted by the English Department of Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN

Keynote speaker: Michael Day, Northern Illinois University

Michael Day

Michael Day is Associate Professor of English at Northern Illinois University, where he directs the First-Year Composition Program and teaches composition pedagogy, technical writing, and writing for electronic media.  more >

The 2006 Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing Conference will be held Friday, November 10 and Saturday, November 11, 2006 and will be hosted by the Department of English at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

This conference is open to anyone interested in any aspect of collaboration and teaching writing with computers.

We are interested in proposals from any discipline that addresses the conference theme. We especially encourage instructors to collaborate with their graduate students and advanced undergraduate students to submit proposals for this conference. This year's theme explores the histories as well as the emerging and future uses of collaboration in the teaching of writing with technology; therefore, conference organizers seek individual and panel proposals from faculty (full-time, adjunct, and teaching assistant) as well as graduate students that discuss topics such as the following:

·         What are the pedagogical connections between social networks and writing and collaboration?

·         How can we co-opt, adapt, or submit to MySpace and Facebook in the classroom?

·         What is the connection between social networking and collaboration?

·         Are social networks more appropriate in online pedagogy than in face-to-face pedagogy?

Please send a 250-word abstract with panel or paper proposal information including title of paper(s), and name, address, email, and affiliation of presenter(s) by October 1, 2006. 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. Randall McClure, Department of English, Minnesota State University, Mankato at randall.mcclure@mnsu.edu.