Blog Juice for Educational Technology

Hey, what’s up with Kairos? Tried to check it out and it’s now asking for a password to access “english.ttu.edu”. Don’t tell it’s gone all pay per view!

Have you recovered from the trip to Lubbock? Or let your fingers rest upon the keyboard after the online conference this spring? If so, and you're hankering to get back to work, consider submitting a revised version of your conference presentation to Kairos. Queries welcome before deadline.
Kairos Call for Webtexts: Computers & Writing 2006 Issue
Submission deadline July 1, 2006
Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy, an online, peer-reviewed journal, invites authors to submit their work from the Computers and Writing 2006 conferences (onsite and online) for inclusion in the C&W issue. The editors encourage all authors who present at the C&W Onsite and Online Conferences to submit for this issue.

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It’s my great pleasure to announce that Clancy Ratliff’s CultureCat is this year’s winner of the 2005-2006 John Lovas Memorial Academic Weblog Award. Sponsored each year by Kairos, the award goes out to the academic weblog which has made significant contribution to the field of rhetoric and composition.

I read CultureCat regularly, and I can’t think of a better choice for this award. Congratulations, Clancy! I would also encourage everyone to add CultureCat to your news aggregator if you are not reading it already

Thanks to Jenny, Collin, and Daisy for participating as this year’s judges.

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Just a reminder: the cutoff date for nominations for the 2005-2006 John Lovas Memorial Academic Weblog Award is tomorrow. Anyone and everyone can nominate a weblog for the award, and the winner will be announced at this year’s Computers & Writing conference. As the original call for nominations indicates, the judges are interested in academic weblogs that offer a regular, ongoing, and useful contribution to the scholarly discourse in our fields; weblogs that — through their public engagement — help to build our common knowledge. Send your nominations to kairosed@technorhetoric.net.

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Deadline: May 10, 2006

Kairos, A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is pleased to announce the Kairos Awards for Graduate Students and Adjuncts, sponsored by Bedford/St. Martin’s Press. (These awards were formerly titled the Kairos/Lore Awards for TAs and Adjuncts.)

Graduate students and adjuncts often face institutional constraints that undervalue the work they do. For many, their service, scholarship, and teaching often do not translate into simple acknowledgment, let alone higher pay, more travel funds, and better working conditions. These awards serve to ameliorate some of those conditions through recognition and compensation.

Classical Rhetoric and Digital Communication: A Canon Blast into the Net

The Internet. Blogs. Hypertext. CMC. Wikis. Drupal. IM. What would the classical ancestors of Western rhetoric think of today’s digital world? How should we reinterpret the work of ancient rhetoricians in light of emerging digital practices?

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Wow. So much news–and so exciting! It’s my honor and privilege to be the first to tell you about a new line of Kairosnews ™ merchandise that will (a) help fund a very important new project here at Kairosnews and (b) help get the word out to your colleagues about our upgrade. Of course, the biggest project that’s in the works now is the upgrade from Drupal (a zero-cost open source CMS) to Microsoft Sharepoint Team Services (a full-featured, commercial, “solution-focused” management system). Of course, Sharepoint isn’t free like Drupal, but you get what you pay for. Now that we’ve been doing Kairosnews for awhile, and what with getting PhDs and such, we feel it’s time to take things to the next level; to quit hobbying around and get professional. We will also be implementing a subscription-based model. Non-paying users will still get to visit the Kairosnews site *however often they wish*, but only those paying a nominal support fee will be allowed to view actual content. We feel that this is an equitable solution that should satisfy everyone. We will also be updating our CC license to an All Rights Reserved traditional coypright notice. While we support the spirit behind CC and all that, it’s not paying the bills.

Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is pleased to announce that it will again recognize outstanding webtexts with awards to be presented at Computers and Writing 2006 in Lubbock, Texas.

Please see the full text of this announcement for criteria.

For the past several years, many scholars have been making a significant contribution to the knowledge in rhetoric and composition via their weblogs. Academic bloggers are conversing about topics such as professional issues in the discipline, best teaching practices, electronic discourse, and cultural criticism of digital space. Weblogs
are also making a significant contribution to the public intellectual commons. Because weblogs do not have the same gatekeeping checks as traditional scholarly publications, they have heretofore not been considered scholarly work and thus are not often recognized for the contribution they make to our discipline(s).

Position Announcement: CoverWeb Assistant Editor 
Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos

We have openings for two qualified candidates for the position of CoverWeb Assistant Editor at Kairos, a refereed online journal exploring the intersections of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy. Each CoverWeb presents webtexts addressing varied perspectives on special topics. Recent past issues have focused on such subjects as disability and technology, new media, portable technologies, and online writing spaces, as well as webtexts adapted from presentations at the annual conference of Computers and Writing.