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CFP: Web 2.0 Applications in Writing Classrooms Deadline extended to Jan. 25, 2010

Writing instructors who teach online or in networked classrooms are embracing highly collaborative Web 2.0 applications in their writing pedagogy. This essay collection, under contract with Fountainhead Press in the X Series for Professional Development, seeks to provide writing instructors with examples of writing classroom pedagogy that has creatively and effectively used new Web 2.0 applications in composition courses (such as FYC, Research Writing, Basic Writing, Argumentative Writing,and so forth).

CFP: Web 2.0 Applications in FYC

Writing instructors who teach online or in networked classrooms are embracing highly collaborative Web 2.0 applications in their writing pedagogy. This essay collection, under contract with Fountainhead Press in the X Series for Professional Development, seeks to provide writing instructors with examples of writing classroom pedagogy that has creatively and effectively used new Web 2.0 applications in composition courses (such as FYC, Research Writing, Basic Writing, Argumentative Writing,and so forth).

Research Study on First Year Composition

As part of a study investigating multimodal composition in first year writing classrooms, a researcher from Ball State University is conducting a brief survey of those who teach first year writing (regardless if they teach multimodal documents or not). Please take the time to complete the brief survey if you teach these courses. There are some interesting questions that ask participants about the types of technologies they use in the writing classroom.

Link: http://freeonlinesurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?sid=rmunxi9if1rybwu639448