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Call for Papers for Currents in Electronic Literacy journal Thanks to Kimberly Cordingly for forwarding the following Call For Papers -----------------begin announcement------------------------- Currents in Electronic Literacy (ISSN 1524-6493) is now accepting submissions for its Spring 2000 special issue on Technology and the Teaching of Writing in Primary and Secondary Schools. Completed articles are due February 29, 2000. As computer technology becomes an increasingly important part of primary and secondary education, we want to address how computers are being used in the primary and secondary schools and how effective they have been, as well as the way that the availability of technology (or lack thereof) has affected the gap between richer schools and poorer ones. We would like to open the floor to practical suggestions on ways that primary and secondary schools might use technology more effectively. Topics to be considered include Technologies and their effectiveness Teaching methods Teacher training Bilingual education Creative writing Technology and the teaching of reading, writing, or literature Funding Creative use of older technologies Changes in the population entering college Web authoring Old schools vs. new schools -- can a school without computers keep up? Currents is an electronic journal for the scholarly discussion of issues pertaining to electronic literacy, widely construed. We seek to publish work addressing the use of electronic texts and technologies in reading, writing, teaching, and learning in fields including but not restricted to literature (in English and in other languages), rhetoric and composition, languages (English, foreign, or ESL), communications, media studies, and education. You can see our Fall 1999 issue and our archives at http//www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents/. We will also accept inquiries and early submissions for our Fall, 2000 number, which will be an open call. Currents is published by the Computer Writing and Research Lab of the Division of Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Texas at Austin. The e-journal is published twice annually (spring and fall), and replaces Computer Writing, Rhetoric, and Literature as the official e-journal of the CWRL. We are especially interested in work that takes advantage of the hypertext possibilities afforded by our World Wide Web publication format, as well as in articles concerning the use of emergent electronic technologies. To this end, we gladly accept articles with graphics, sound, and hyperlinks submitted as HTML documents. We ask, however, that such submissions take into account reader-access issues, and that they routinely incorporate such accommodations as the inclusion of tags in any image and the use of content tags (e.g., citation and emphasis tags) instead of the corresponding physical markup tags (e.g., italics and bold tags) whenever possible. We are also pleased to publish essays in more traditional formats. Please submit these essays either in HTML format, Word 97/98 format, or Rich Text Format (RTF). We accept electronic submissions by email at ejournal@lists.cwrl.utexas.edu as well as on 3.5" floppy or Zip by post at Currents in Electronic Literacy c/o Computer Writing and Research Lab Parlin 3, University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712 All submissions should adhere to MLA style guidelines for citations and documentation, which may be found online at . Currents reserves all copyrights to published articles, and we require all of our articles to be housed on our Web server. If you have any questions, please contact Melynda Nuss, Coordinating Editor, at ejournal@lists.cwrl.utexas.edu. ----------------------end announcement-------------------------- (Web-posted 01/13/00; contributed by Kim Cordingly) Back to our Call for Papers page If you have information on any technology-related calls for papers, please contact David Roth at 293-4696 or e-mail us. This Page was Last Modified: 13 January 2000, 22:00 ET This page is designed by A. David Roth for the WVU Professional Association for Technological Studies Page Copyright © 1999, 2000, A. David Roth All rights reserved Permission required from the author for the use of any text, object, or image on this Web site This Web Page is best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4.7; monitor settings: 800 X 600 pixels, true color 32-bit, small fonts URL=  http://www.wvu.edu/~proftst/papers05.htm