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 <alt> tags in any image and the use of
content tags (e.g., citation <cite> and emphasis <em> tags) instead of the
corresponding physical markup tags (e.g., italics <i> and bold <b>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
<http://www.mla.org/main_stl.htm>. 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.
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