Committee Members
Cheryl Ball, Chair
Samantha Blackmon
Michael Day
Keith Dorwick
Doug Eyman
Sarah Quick
Janice Walker
Joyce Walker
John Walter
Committee Charge
This committee exists to:
- provide national leadership for directing and using computer technologies for writing,
- continue to sponsor and present workshops, panels and demonstrations at CCCC and NCTE-sponsored conferences, including regular organization at CCCC national conferences of a software sampler room, with hands-on demonstrations and qualified consultants present. Include in these activities attention to open source and community source projects and software, calling attention to best practices, when possible, and providing guidelines on issues and strategies,
- support continuity in the annual Computers-in-Writing Conferences, by coordinating the search for a sponsoring university and the transfer from site to site, maintaining mailing lists and other records, providing advice and logistical support for the conference planners, and assisting in publicizing the conference,
- serve as resource personnel: promoting bibliographies, journals and publications related to computers in writing; promoting the purchase and use of all NCTE publications relating to computers, and
- coordinate the efforts of the members of the Computer Committee with the initiatives of other groups (such as the NCTE Instructional Technology Committee).