CCCC/97 Online lives!

[Eric Crump <wleric@showme.missouri.edu>]

Apologies for the egregious cross-post. Please forward if there's anyplace
on the planet I've missed where comp/rhet folks hang out ;)
--EC

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|  CCCC/97 Online
|  The internet home of the 
|  Conference on College Composition and Communication's 
|  annual convention
|  March 12-15, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
|  http://www.missouri.edu/~cccc/97/
|  cccc@showme.missouri.edu
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What's there:

--> Input page. The most important spot of all, maybe. This 
    is where CCCC members (or anybody else, really) can 
    help shape and improve CCCC/97 Online and potentially 
    the on-site convention as well. This year's convention 
    chair, Cynthia Selfe, has posted a note to the forum
    inviting suggestions. Make suggestions, share ideas, 
    offer criticism, identify problems. 

    If this resource isn't owned and shaped by everybody, 
    it's not living up to its potential.

    http://www.missouri.edu/~cccc/input.html

--> The text of the convention preview publication (including 
    convention registration and hotel reservation forms--not 
    interactive, but they can be printed and snailmailed).

    http://www.missouri.edu/~cccc/97/preview/

--> Abstracts and other information about sessions and work-
    shops (kind of sparse at the moment, but will grow as 
    presenters add their bits)

    http://www.missouri.edu/~cccc/97/contribforms.html

--> Web forms for presenters to automatically add information 
    about their sessions. 

    http://www.missouri.edu/~cccc/97/contribforms.html

--> Web forms for presenters and others to request web forums 
    or mailing lists to serve as venues for session planning 
    or online sessions.

    http://www.missouri.edu/~cccc/forums.html
    http://www.missouri.edu/~cccc/lists.html

--> A link to ASU CompPage, a web site hosted by the local 
    planning group with copious info about the convention 
    site & host city.

    http://www.public.asu.edu/~egw92470/

--> CCCC-announce: the fight against spam. During 'convention 
    season' for the past two years I've posted numerous messages 
    to numerous lists announcing various additions, invitations, 
    and events related to CCCC Online and the CCCC Convention. 
    It's important to get information out to everyone who might 
    be interested, but it's not necessary to try the patience of 
    those who aren't interested or aren't interested in seeing
    10 copies of the same note. 

    This year we'll try using an announcement list for posting 
    information regularly and will venture a big cross-post 
    only very occasionally and at need. The announcement list 
    will also be archived on the web so those who prefer not 
    to subscribe can still keep up with the latest.

    cccc-announce@zaphod.lc.missouri.edu will be a moderated 
    or distribution-only list, so mail volume will remain low. 
    To subscribe, send email to macjordomo@zaphod.lc.missouri.edu, 
    leave the subject line blank, and in the first line of the 
    note put: subscribe cccc-announce yourfirstname yourlastname
 
    If you encounter problems, please write to cccc@showme.missouri.edu.

    The archive, as soon as there's anything to put in it, will be at
    http://www.missouri.edu/~cccc/97/announce/

Soon to come: Online events!

    We'll soon have a page designed to help organize and 
    inform folks about online events and how to participate 
    in them. Last year's C-Fest MOO sessions, hosted by 
    Cynthia Haynes and Jan Rune Holmevik, were a great success, 
    following the pattern established by Tari Fanderclai and
    Greg Siering in Netoric's regular Tuesday Cafe sessions. 
    We hope to expand upon the fine work these folks have done 
    by hosting, facilitating, or advertizing sessions suggested 
    or organized by members. Anything related in any way to CCCC 
    is appropriate. Conventions are organized conversations. 
    Online conventions are no different.

    Interactive online convention sessions can take any number 
    of forms. One example will be the 'works in progress' session 
    offered by presenters John Trimbur, Patricia Bizzell, and 
    Marilyn Cooper. They will make their papers available for 
    commentary from February 17 through March 1. Watch for more 
    information about specifically where their work will be 
    located and how you can offer your observations and questions.


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That's all for now. Please don't hesitate to use the input form to let us
know what we can do to make CCCC Online do what you want it to do, or
write to cccc@showme.missouri.edu

--Eric Crump
  on behalf of the CCCC Computers in Composition and Communication
  committee