Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and PedagogyKairosnews is an open community of members interested in the intersections of rhetoric and pedagogy with technology. Visitors should register and join in the many discussions by posting comments or creating a blog entry.2008 Kairos Awards Winners- May 29, 2008 Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is pleased to announce the winners of the annual Kairos awards.read morehttp://kairosnews.org/2008-kairos-awards-winners CFP: Technology-Focused Collaborative Research in English Studies (Collection)- May 29, 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS: Edited Collection on Technology-Focused Collaborative Research in English Studies WORKING TITLE: Investigating Digital Tools, Texts, and Use Practices: Collaborative Approaches to Research in English Studiesread morehttp://kairosnews.org/cfp-technology-focused-collaborative-res Big Blue and Kairosnews Embraces Social Media- May 28, 2008 BusinessWeek reports that IBM has been experimenting with social bookmarking and social networking systems in house. Beehive, their social networking application, has 30,000 employees using the software. Kairosnews editors have been planning on exploring how social networking might be effective for this community as well. Once Drupal 5x contributed modules necessary for building such a site get converted to Drupal 6x, expect to see major changes here on Kairosnews.http://kairosnews.org/big-blue-and-kairosnews-embraces-social- Reproof Reading - The Hyperliterature Exchange, May 2008- May 21, 2008 New on The Hyperliterature Exchange for May 2008: a review of 'Le ReprobateurThe Reprover' by Francois Coulon. "Le Reprobateur... exudes selfconfidence, playfulness and humour; it attempts to do a lot of things at once, and by and large it succeeds in everything it attempts..." To read the whole review, go to http:www.hyperex.co.ukreviewreprobateur.php . read morehttp://kairosnews.org/reproof-reading-the-hyperliterature-exch Kairos Issue 12.3 Released- May 20, 2008 Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is pleased to announce the release of Issue 12.3, our special issue for Summer 2008 with Guest Editors Scott Lloyd DeWitt and Cheryl E. Ball. This is the Manifesto Issue: "wrought with connotation, politically and emotionally charged, manifestos call us to action and demand changein the streets, in the workplace, in our classrooms, in our minds, and in the virtual spaces we inhabit.read morehttp://kairosnews.org/kairos-issue-12-3-released Researchers: written English language will weather LOL storm- May 15, 2008 Ars Technica reports on a recent study which shows that instant messaging may not be ruining students' writing abilities after all as many might believe. For instance, Researchers Sali Tagliamonte and Derek Denis studied over a million words from IM communications and compared it to more than 250,000 spoken words of those between the ages of 15 and 20. The two found that, while written and spoken speech share some similarities, IM communications actually leaned toward the formal side.read morehttp://kairosnews.org/researchers-written-english-language-wil |