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Amy Tehan's Screencasting Presentation Now Available Online
Amy Tehan's November 4th presentation to the STC Central Iowa, "Screencasting for Dummies (and Smarties)," is now available online in streaming video format, for those who weren't able to attend in person.
Donna Niday Co-Authors Second Edition of Award-Winning Book, Mentoring Beginning Teachers
Mentoring Beginning Teachers, Second Edition provides a comprehensive and tested plan for helping mentors guide new teachers in moving beyond the basics of plan/teach/evaluate to a higher level of joint assessment and inquiry.
Project Yao (覞工程) Website Launched
Project Yao, a bi-national bibliographic database of pre-1920 American literature translations into Chinese, launched this week.
Lee Honeycutt receives grant from Gerald R. Ford Foundation
A grant to Lee Honeycutt from the Gerald R. Ford Foundation will support archival research.
Visitors from Germany to Tour Studio for New Media
Three visitors, invited to the United States under the auspices of the Department of State's International Visitor Leadership Program, are coming to visit the Studio for New Media to learn about how we research, teach, and develop new media, as part of a tour new media use across the country.
David Russell Co-Authors Article on Open Access Book Publishing for Online Journal, First Monday
The publication of scholarly books has been shaped strongly in recent decades by two factors: assessments by publishers of the potential market for books and the influence of publisher’s reputations on tenure and promotion decisions.
Two Alumni Featured in Visions Magazine
The Summer 2008 issue of Visions magazine interviews Omar and Ramsey Tesdell, two alumni of the BS in Technical Communication program.
Geoff Sauer Receives 2008 APEX Award of Excellence
Geoffrey Sauer Receives a 2008 APEX Award of Excellence for his work on the EServer Technical Communication Library.
New McGraw-Hill Anthology of Writing by Women Co-Edited by Diane Price Herndl
Women’s Worlds, a new anthology of women’s writing, was created to make available a broad range of women’s voices from across time, across classes, and across the globe in a slimmer, more flexible, and more affordable format.
Diane Price Herndl Honored at 123rd Annual MLA Convention
The Women's Caucus of the MLA honored Diane Price Herndl at the 123rd Annual MLA Convention by awarding her the 2007 Florence Howe Award for the year's Best Essay in Feminist Studies in English.
EServer Awarded LASCAC Grant
The EServer, an online publishing venture in the arts and humanities based in the ISU English Department, was recently awarded a grant to develop a Web 2.0 tool for English Department courses.
RPC PhD Candidates Deliver Papers and Panels at ABC Conference in Washington, DC
Iowa State University's RPC doctoral candidates and faculty make a strong showing at the 2007 ABC Conference.
ISU Professors and Graduate Students Receive "Top Panel" Award
Top Panel Award for the "Basic Course Division," Central States Communication Association Convention, Minneapolis, MN, March 30, 2007.
Amy Slagell Receives 2007-2008 LAS Master Teacher Award
Dr. Amy Slagell is one of six LAS professors who have been selected as 2007-2008 LAS Master Teachers for their work in developing innovative ways to teach large lecture courses. Dr. Slagell serves as the Director of the Fundamentals of Public Speaking Program, where she works closely with the English Department graduate students who are teaching assistants for SpCm 212, the department's basic public speaking course. Dr. Slagell is also the Professor in Charge of the speech communication program.
JBTC Publishes Article by David Russell
The current issue of the Journal of Business and Technical Communication features an article by David Russell, ISU Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Communication.
Amy Slagell Co-Edits Collection of Speeches and Writings of One of America's Most Important Social Reformers
"This collection is perfect, offering the best of Willard without overwhelming the reader. The documents chosen illustrate Willard's uncanny political sense and ability to turn a phrase, as well as her personal trajectory through the halls of temperance into the wide arena of national and inter-national reforms." --Mari Jo Buhle, William R. Kenan, Jr. University Professor of American civilization and history, Brown University
Geoff Sauer Interviewed by the IJTC
Assistant Professor Geoffrey Sauer is the feature interview of the current issue of the International Journal for Technical Communication.
