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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Tirrell, Jeremy – Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 2012
The "Mapping Digital Technology in Rhetoric and Composition History" project can accommodate the geographical aspects of many relevant potential data sets, such as the locations of conferences, grant and award winners, book publications, graduate programs, job openings, and blog posts. The maps created for this article focus specifically on online…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Rhetoric, Awards
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Knochel, Aaron; Selfe, Dickie – Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 2012
The mapping imagery of the web interface is an attempt to illustrate the surprising element of the Hilltop project. The map is not "accurate." It shows real streets and highways in, around, and in-between the Ohio State University and the Hilltop community, but it is not intended to provide directions.
Descriptors: Internet, Case Studies, School Community Relationship, Colleges
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Balzhiser, Deborah; Grover, Mandy; Lauer, Evelyn; McNeely, Sarah; Polk, Jonathan D.; Zmikly, Jon; Holmes, Cade; Porter, Ellen; Saucier, Corey; Swearingen, Tiffany – Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 2011
The purpose of this project was to explore and document one approach for integrating social media--Facebook, really--into freshman writing. The assignment using Facebook was first given in 2006 and twice more through 2009. Our report on the project takes the form of a network; the content is distributed across the wall, info, and notes sections of…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Social Networks, Internet, Web Sites
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Santos, Marc C. – Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 2011
This installation is a personal and cathartic engagement with my initial inability to cope with my daughter's cancer. It details events that began in August of 2008 and concluded, in a sense, in February of 2009. I offer it with hopes of helping digitally-oriented rhetoric and composition scholars "determin[e] a should for a we" (Patricia Sullivan…
Descriptors: Daughters, Writing Instruction, Rhetoric, Teaching Methods
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Penich-Thacker, Dawn – Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 2010
Penich-Thacker points to the increasing digital presence of the U.S. military, not only on official dot.mil sites but also on commercial social networking sites, and suggests that the interactions and intersections of military and civilian personnel online challenge the notion of "fundamental differences" between these populations.
Descriptors: Military Service, Social Networks, Computer Mediated Communication, Access to Computers
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Theamishaugur – Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 2009
In a remix of the infamous Hitler meme--taking a scene from the movie, "Downfall" (2005), and adding subtitles appropriate (in this case) for "Kairos" readers--theamishaugur makes a pointed, humorous (to some) commentary on the status of multimodal composition scholars in English departments during job market season.
Descriptors: English Instruction, Writing (Composition), Multimedia Materials, Writing Instruction