June 30, 2008 I started teaching a new graduate course today entitled “Writing with Sound” here at ODU. While I was prepping the syllabus I spent a lot of time looking for resources and came across this recording of a talk Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky) gave at UNC in February this year. It’s pretty long, but it’s worth the time.
I’m really looking forward to seeing him talk at the Watson Conference this year!
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June 6, 2008 I have several friends with last names that are often used as street names, but this was a first for me.
A grad student who was riding down to C&W with me spotted it on our way down, so I had to stop and snap a pic on the way back home.
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May 31, 2008 
As many folks out there know CL and I both had grand plans for digital dissertations. When the reality of what we could and could not do became clear to us, we chose two different paths: I bailed on the idea since I just wanted to get done, while CL revised her original plan but pushed forward with a significant digital piece. Since last fall we’ve frequently talked about the issues we encountered with digital dissertations, which has ultimately led to a new joint research project: Dissertating Digitally.
In January 2008, we had grand plans to put up a survey, pester friends and colleagues into taking it and present some findings at C&W. However, the best laid plans…etc, etc. One of the things we realized early on was that this was an issue that deserved much more sustained research than a simple C&W presentation. In addition, as we began to build our survey we realized that before we could talk about digital dissertations, we needed to actually look at how graduate programs were dealing (or not dealing) with training graduate students in digital media. That led to a change in focus for the research as well as the realization that we were going to need IRB approval since we were going to want to conduct f2f interviews in addition to the online survey. Long story short, our IRB approval and C&W pretty much coincided. So, rather than presenting findings, we presented our research questions and distributed lots of flyers and stickers in an effort to recruit participants (or as Jason P. put it we engaged in some major viral marketing).
We’ve posted the call for participants to several listservs, but I thought I would post it here as well—and do a bit of begging: please, please, PLEASE take our survey! We can’t offer you anything other than our thanks for taking it at this point, but we’d really, really appreciate it if folks would take 30 to 60 minutes to complete the survey. We’d like anyone who has ever been involved in any kind of graduate study (e.g., MA or PhD) as either a student or faculty member to take the survey. In keeping with our approved IRB protocol, here is the formal invitation to participate:
You’re invited to participate in survey research on the status of digital dissertation and thesis research.
Carrie A. Lamanna and Katherine E. Gossett are conducting an online survey of graduate students, faculty, and program administrators in rhetoric and composition, technical communication,and related fields to determine the conditions in which new media scholarship is being taught at the graduate level.
If you are interesting in participating in this research visit www.dissertatingdigitally.net to learn more about the study and participate in the survey.
You can also contact one of the researchers for more information:
Carrie A. Lamanna
carrie.lamanna@colostate.eduKatherine E. Gossett
kgossett@odu.edu
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May 27, 2008 I’m just back from a great Computers & Writing at UGA. It’s always good to see old friends and meet new ones!
I was able to participate in one of the last panel presentations on Sunday entitled, “The Instability of New Media Performed in One-Minute Provocations,” organized by Jim Kalmbach and Cheryl Ball. The panel consisted of authors from their new edited collection RAW: Reading (and Writing) New Media. Our instructions were to prepare one-minute provocations about new media. Since Jim Purdy, Carrie Lamanna and I co-authored a chapter together, we decided to pool our time together; and, since our chapter is about video, we decided to put together a video of conference goers and their definition of new media. (Thanks to Carrie and her great new Flip video cameras!) So we ran around the conference terrorizing fellow participants with a video camera (and yellow stickers, but more about that in another post) and got some great footage. I’ve had several requests for copies of the video so I put it up on YouTube and decided to post it here.
The video is meant to be a provocation for more discussion, so there are no conclusions, just more questions! Here it is:
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May 14, 2008 This semester I had the awesome opportunity of teaching a graduate course in new media theory and practice. The final project for the course was a 10 - 15 minute visual argument. Although most of the students posted their videos to the course iTunes U site, two students chose to post their collaborative video to YouTube so I can share (and brag).
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My name is Kathie Gossett. My research interests include the canon of memory, medieval and visual rhetoric, technology and identity, and multimedia texts, literacies, and pedagogies. So posts (or rants) about any of these subjects may appear here.
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