Faculty and Undergraduate Research

Teaching and Researching Digital Scholarship

Digital Tenure Portfolio

o Which software to use?o How to design it? o Why to design it?o Which identities should I perform? o How can I make it useful to others?o How do I help readers read/value

born-digital work?

English 239: Multimodal Composition

o researching the fieldo analysis of digital media textso attending Watson conferenceo collecting digital assets (research)o composition of digital media textso writing submission proposals

Key Issues in UnpackingDigital Media Scholarship

o Reading Times o Scopeo Value-Addedo Materialityo Crafto Laboro Performanceo Peer Review

Summary of Peer-Review Criteria

o Participates in current disciplinary conversationso Presents something new/differento Suits readers of publication mediumo Form enacts contento Shows innovation/creativity

Digital Scholarship

A Possible 3D Axis to Map, Describe, and Value Digital Scholarship

A Short Example

How do we make the work we do visible to (tenure) readers?

Narrating Our Labor

Size of Digital Works

o Count project from start to finisho What’s considered labor?o What’s left out of your count?

Scope of Digital Works

o at conferenceo in their projects

How Did They Talk Back?

o My Fall 2008 239 classo Dept of English & CASo CTLT Teaching Innovation granto SoTL ProfDev travel granto FEIC ProfDev awards

Special Thanks

Dr. Cheryl E. Ballcball@ilstu.edu

http://www.ceball.com (portfolio)http://www.ceball.com/classes/239

Thank you