Making Connections
Donna Reiss, CAC Connections Editor
Home Page: http://www.wordsworth2.net/
Email: dreiss@wordsworth2.net
CAC is all about connections, so a section called "CAC Connections" may well be oxymoronic. And although hundreds of writing/communication across the curriculum programs and centers for effective teaching already connect written, oral, visual, and electronic communication with other active learning strategies, these programs and centers also welcome ways to connect with each other. Providing a way for them to find and share resources is one of the goals of Academic.Writing, where the Webbed listings of CAC programs will be not only connected through hypertext but also frequently updated, an advantage of the Web as the medium for these resources.
In this and upcoming CAC Connections, you'll find:
- In recognition of the ways that the Internet and hypermedia are changing our conceptions of "writing" in "writing across the curriculum," we initiate the CAC Connections section of Academic.Writing with an innovative hypertext that reports on the Town Hall Meetings at the 1999 Computers and Writing Conference.
- The Web resource for connections between WAC/CAC and computer-mediated communication, once called ECAC: Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum, has a new home at Academic.Writing. New and emerging WAC and CAC programs will, we hope, find these listings helpful to their planning and development. Among the key resources on these pages are WAC and CAC Programs on the Web, CAC Bibliographies, CAC Listservs, Learning Communities Sites and Information, Teaching/Learning Centers and Instructional Technology Projects, Computer-Mediated Communication Resources, and a list of other Electronic Journals.
- You'll also find a list of upcoming and past conferences related to CAC and WAC. We've pulled this list together from conference announcements sent to various mailing lists. We seek your support in keeping it updated. Please let us know of any conferences – local, regional, national, and international – that should be added to the list.
- On Tuesday evening, January 25th, 2000, several members of our editorial board from attended the Netoric Project's Tuesday Spotlight Cafe. The discussion focused on the formation and possible evolution of Academic.Writing, as well as the challenges online journals face. You can read the full transcript of the session and the announcement that preceded it.
- Coming Soon: To further the connections among WAC-CAC-ECAC consultants and our colleagues who are organizing programs, presentations, and workshops, our next update of CAC Connections will introduce a database of people experienced in communication across the curriculum.
Publication Information: Reiss, Donna. (2000). Making Connections. Academic.Writing. http://wac.colostate.edu/aw/connections/connections1.htm
Publication Date: March 26, 2000
DOI: 10.37514/AWR-J.2000.1.6.25
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