Kairotica 1.1 [June 1, 1998] (fwd)

[WILL HOCHMAN <hochman@uscolo.edu>]

Kairotica: News <Now> On Computers & Writing
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* Multi-Authored "Hypertext Reflections" Wins 2nd Annual Best Webtext
Award
The Kairos Best Webtext Award is intended to recognize the most
effective engagement of the medium in presenting useful and innovative
information to teachers of writing in native webbed environments. The
winner is sponsored by the journal Kairos: A Journal For Teachers of
Writing in Webbed Environments. 

The 1998 winner, announced on May 29 at the Computers & Writing
Conference at the University of Florida, was "Hypertext Reflections:
Exploring the Rhetoric, Poetic, and Pragmatics of Hypertext" by Mike
Palmquist, Will Hochman, Beth Kolko, Emily Golson, Jonathan Alexander,
Luann Barnes, and Kate Kiefer. 
<http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.2/features/reflections/bridge.html>
The winners received a package of software and other materials
generously donated by Daedalus Integrated Writing Environments, Norton,
SixthFloor and Lilikoi as well as a plaque and a small cash award. 

Other finalists for the 1998 award were Doug Brent for "Rhetorics of the
Web: Implications for Teachers of Literacy"
<http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.1/features/brent/bridge.html>
and Sandye Thompson's "Speaking of the MOOn: Textual Realities and the
Body Electric"
<http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.2/coverweb/sandye/tunnel1.html]> The
winner and finalists were chosen, after an initial open nominations
process, via anonymous ballot by the Kairos Editorial Staff and Board,
along with the invited ballots of all previous finalists.  To be
eligible for the award, the nominated webtext must have been published
during the calendar year 1997, and be available free via the World-Wide
Web. 


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* Issue 3.2 To Feature Edited Proceedings of C&W Conference
_Kairos_ is pleased to announce that its forthcoming Fall 1998 issue
(3.2) will feature at least in part an edited Proceedings of the 14th
annual Computers & Writing Conference in Gainesville just concluded. All
presenters at the conference will be invited to publish annotated,
linked abstracts of their presentations, and to submit fully webbed
presentations of their work for editorial review and possible
publication in a "Best of C&W" overview.  The special issue will be
guest edited by News Editor James Inman of the University of Michigan,
who will lead an editorial team which includes Barry Maid of the
University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Lisa Gerrard of the University of
California at Los Angeles, and Donna Sewell of Valdosta State
University.  For further information, contact Inman at jinman@umich.edu.