Call for Narratives
From PraxisWiki
PraxisWiki invites submissions to these ongoing discussions:
Summer 2008: The Multi-User Virtual Environment
With the increasing popularity of virtual worlds online, such technologies are being implemented in writing course curricula to create realistic contexts for composing -- spaces where students can role play and interact with audiences beyond the classroom. We are soliciting narratives that tell of the uses of multi-user virtual environments in the classroom.
Winter 2008: Social Networking Software and Academic Work
For the next issue of PraxisWiki, we are soliciting texts for a new category: "Social Networking and Academic Work." Narratives submitted for this category should deal specifically with issues surrounding the use of public social networking sites (e.g., MySpace, Friendster, Flikr, and Wikipedia) as spaces to support or encourage classroom-based or scholarly writing. Authors should compose with attention to ongoing debates related to such sites, such as the public exposure of school-based writing (which can be traced back to discussions related to early MOOing and Web-building activities in composition classrooms), or the efficacy of assigning writing in these spaces (which may or may not be motivated by same kind of interest or enthusiasm as voluntary contributions).
Winter 2007: Using Web-based Course Tools for Teaching Writing
Short narrative submissions for this category should focus on the use of web-based course tools for various kinds of distance learning, including courses that meet face-to-face on an intermittent or regular schedule, and courses that meet only online. Authors are encouraged to submit short narratives about the more well-know course tools software packages, such as WebCT or Blackboard, or free software, such as Moodle.
Fall 2007: Multimedia Scholarship
For the August 2007 issue of Kairos, the Praxis editorial staff would like to invite users to contribute short narratives that discuss specific tools for authoring multimedia that have been (or might be) used for projects that are scholarly in nature. We are particularly interested in narratives, research, and personal perspectives about how various types of multimedia-authoring software work to affect the processes of producing scholarly work.
Questions authors might consider include:
- What are the affordances of these tools?
- How do they shape the processes of authoring?
- How do the intellectual activities of reading/writing/thinking alter when using digital tools?
Information on Contributing to PraxisWiki
For more information regarding creating and submitting narratives, please see the following links on PraxisWiki:
