Co-Director Selected to Participate in One Week | One Tool

Dr. Kathie Gossett was selected as one of 12 participants for the NEH funded One Week | One Tool Institute at George Mason's Center for History and New Media this summer. Following is a brief description of the institute from CHNM's website:

[One Week | One Tool] will bring together a group of twelve digital humanists of diverse disciplinary backgrounds and practical experience to build something useful and usable. A short course of training in principles of open source software development will be followed by an intense five days of doing and a year of continued remote engagement, development, testing, dissemination, and evaluation. Comprising designers and developers as well as scholars, project managers, outreach specialists, and other non-technical participants, the group will conceive a tool, outline a roadmap, develop and disseminate an initial prototype, lay the ground work for building an open source community, and make first steps toward securing the project’s long-term sustainability.

ATTW & CCCC Presentations

Several researchers from CeME will be attending and presenting at the Association of Teachers of Technical Communication (ATTW) and the Conference on College Compostion and Communication in Louisville, KY. Drs. Potts and Gossett will be presenting "Tweetagogy: Building Community in 140 Characters or Less" with PhD student Vincent Rhodes on Wednesday afternoon at ATTW. Dr. Gossett will also be presenting "Entering the Q Continuum: Memory and Temporal Mechanics" at CCCC on Friday afternoon.

CeME Research Assistant Wins Travel Award

Dave Jones, a PhD Student in Professional Writing and New Media, had his proposal to participate in the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing's (ATTW) Research Methodology Workshop on March 18, 2010. Mr. Jones was also awarded a travel stipend by ATTW to attend the workshop.

AOIR Presentation

Dr. Liza Potts attend the 10^th annual Association for Internet Researcher’s conference in Milwaukee, WI. Potts was part of the panel on Twitter, presenting a paper entitled “Tweeting Disaster How Twitter Can Support Victims, Survivors, and the Rest of Us.”

SIGDOC Presentations

Dr. Liza Potts, along with PhD Candidates Katie Retzinger and Dave Jones attended the 27th annual SIGDOC conference in Bloomington, IN. Potts, Retzinger and Jones all presented papers at the conference as well.

Co-Directors Interviewed for Mace & Crown

Dr. Liza Potts and Dr. Kathie Gossett were interviewed for a feature article for ODU's student newspaper the Mace & Crown. The article focused on the support given to CeME by both the Department of English and the College of Arts and Letters.

CeME Co-Director Wins Award

Dr. Kathie Gossett, along with Dr. Karl Stolley (IIT) and Dr. Douglas Eyman (GMU), won the 2008 Computers & Composition Michelle Kendrick Digital Production/Scholarship Award for the redesign of the online journal Kairos.