**New C-FEST Meeting Series**

[Cynthia Haynes <cynthiah@utdallas.edu>]

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                                INVITATION
                        1997 C-FEST MEETING SERIES
                               at LINGUA MOO
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                  "Delivering Ourselves to/in the Academy"
                         
 >>Be part of a C-FEST Event and share in the drafting of our Statement<<

                    In the C-FEST Forum at LINGUA MOO
                  [telnet to: lingua.utdallas.edu 8888]
                                   or
                    [WWW: http://lingua.utdallas.edu]

                 Wednesday, April 2nd, 7pm CST (8pm EST)
                 Thursday, April 10th, 7pm CST (8pm EST)
                  Tuesday, April 15th, 8pm CST (9pm EST)
                 Thursday, April 24th, 7pm CST (8pm EST)
                    Monday, May 5th, 7pm CST (8pm EST)
                        Summer meeting dates tba


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C-FEST was organized last year prior to the 1996 CCCC in Milwaukee to
discuss issues related to conference presentation formats, rhetorical 
delivery, and how technology is changing the way our conferences are
organized, and delivered (among other key topics).

Mick Doherty has proposed some post-CCCC C-FEST meetings on the
topic of developing position statements regarding tenure and promotion 
and professional recognition for those of us who work with technology.  
We are hyper-aware of the various efforts going on now in this area, 
namely, the NCTE and MLA efforts, and Eric Crump's website on 
"Professional Recognition" 
(http://www.missouri.edu/~sevenc/recognition.html).  
What Mick proposes is a coordinated effort in which our communities 
participate in the drafting of some statements for adoption (and support) 
by the ACW by early Fall. There will be ongoing discussions at the C-FEST 
MOO meetings, Eric's hypernews forum, and list discussions on ACW, C-FEST,
and Rhetnet (among others).

Mick proposes that:

At our first meeting on April 2nd the primary point we want 
to address is the idea that we have two tasks which are 
interrelated (and it may be a chicken-egg thing) --

1) addressing the texts that define how we are evaluated, 
such as T/P documents, and responsibly collaborating on 
authoring a metadocument that will be both *useful* and 
*accessible* to our colleagues less invested in Net and 
Web scholarship.

2) and, more importantly, at the macro level, we need to 
begin clearly articulating *how* and *WHY* we should value 
electronic scholarship. Not "how are we doing it now" and 
far beyond the complaint of "we get ig-nooored" ... but, what 
should we be doing? Viewing Electronic scholarship as extensions 
of traditional modes of scholarship?  As entirely new forms of 
epistemology?  Are the two mutually exclusive? We need to think 
*hard* about this BIG question -- what is that we're doing and 
why should it be valued? -- and be able to articulate it in a way 
that makes sense in terms of the documents mentioned above.

So we'd like the first session to start *asking* (if not answering yet)
that BIG question/s so we have a backdrop for the specific, document-
building question/s that will follow all summer as we team up to write 
....

We need volunteer facilitators for each meeting (preferably 2). It's
not a hard job :)  Just show up and help guests new to MOO, help
to keep the discussion flowing, and keep track of key ideas and post 
them on the C-FEST Ideas Board.  These meetings will also involve
collaboration on the position statements, so the transcripts and
Ideas Board will need to reflect as much as possible as we craft
the statements. To volunteer as a facilitator, please email Cynthia 
Haynes at cynthiah@utdallas.edu.

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Our meetings are informal and productive. In the C-FEST Forum at Lingua
MOO participants may post ideas and suggestions to the C-FEST ideas
board and obtain instructions for subscribing to the C-FEST email
discussion list. We invite everyone to join in these discussions this 
spring and summer. As always, our meetings are recorded and the 
transcripts made available on the Lingua MOO Archive and Resource page, 
or by email (see instructions in the C-FEST Forum at Lingua).

If you need help telnetting to Lingua or help with MOO basic commands,
you can go to our website and view the Lingua MOO Beginner's Guide to
MOOing: URL address: http://lingua.utdallas.edu

or, email Cynthia Haynes at cynthiah@utdallas.edu or Jan Rune Holmevik at
jan.holmevik@hedb.uib.no

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