THE TENTH ANNUAL

Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing (GPACW) Conference

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

November 10 and 11, 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.  Day is chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication Committee on Computers in Composition and Communication and former chair of the National Council of Teachers of English Assembly on Computers in English. One of the founders of the GPACW, he hosted the first two GPACW conferences in 1996 and 1997, as well as the Computers and Writing Conference in 1999 at South Dakota Tech in Rapid City. Day is the lead member of the Northern Illinois National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research team, and his co-edited publications include _The Online Writing Classroom_ (Hampton, 2000) and _Technical Communication and the World Wide Web_ (Erlbaum, 2005). Day has presented and published on topics ranging from technical communication to Internet communication and teaching writing online.

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