[Web4lib] Wireless and Mobile Technologies for Composition Teachers

[McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]]

Colleagues/

 

A Book That I Had Hoped Would Be Written Has Been Wroten [:-)]

 

/Gerry 

 

Going Wireless: A Critical Exploration of Wireless and Mobile
Technologies for Composition Teachers 

 

Amy C. Kimme Hea (Editor) / Hampton Press / Cresskil NJ /  376 pp. /
ISBN  1-57273-780-8 (hard) > $85.00 ; 1-57273-781-6 (paper) > $ 35 /
February 2009 / New Dimensions in Computers and Composition series

 

Going Wireless is the first edited collection on wireless and mobile
technologies in the field of rhetoric and composition. The contributors
offer rhetoric and composition teachers, scholars, and administrators a
range of practical and theoretical insights on wireless and mobile
technologies. This collection serves as a resource for theoretical
explorations on wireless and mobile technology use as it relates to
computer and composition teaching and research and acts as a reference
for those in the rhetoric and composition community charged with the
responsibilities of integrating, supervising, and evaluating wireless
and mobile technologies.

 

Going Wireless is organized into five major sections and an appendix of
key mobile and wireless technology terms. In each section, authors
represent a range of perspectives as they articulate the roles of
students, teachers, administrators, and researchers working with and
through mobile and wireless devices. The book provides readers with ways
to understand the influence of wireless and mobile technologies by
critiquing the corporate and IT perspectives that inform mobile and
wireless development and integration and seeking out new tropes for
learning, teaching, and researching.

 

Drawing on interviews and surveys, rhetorical analyses, and theoretical
explorations of wireless and mobile devices, the authors enact a range
of methodologies to make claims for reflective approaches to research
and teaching with wireless and mobile devices. The contributors share
their perspectives on the impact of these technological shifts and
situate their experiences in relationship to rhetoric and composition as
a field. Authors in this collection argue for complex articulations of
histories, deployments, integrations, and social factors affected by and
affecting mobile and wireless technologies.

 

BROAD SECTIONS

 

REFIGURING WRITING, TEACHING, & LEARNING THROUGH WIRELESS & MOBILE
TECHNOLOGIES

 

EXAMINING TEACHER & STUDENT SUBJECTIVITIES IN THE AGE OF WIRELESS &
MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES

 

CUTTING THE CORD: STORIES ON WIRELESS TEACHING & LEARNING IN THE
COMPOSITION CLASSROOM

 

TEACHING & LEARNING IN MOTION: MOBILITY & PEDAGOGIES OF SPACE 

 

TEACHING & RESEARCH IN MY POCKET: MOBILE GADGETS & PORTABLE PRACTICES

 

Appendix: Terms for Going Wireless: An Account of Wireless and Mobile
Technology for Teachers / David Menchaca

 

About the Authors / Author Index / Subject Index

 

Links To Full Table Of Contents And Publisher Site Available At

 

[ http://tinyurl.com/yj9drp6  ]

 

EnjoY!

 

/Gerry 

 

Gerry McKiernan

Associate Professor

Science and Technology Librarian

Iowa State University Library

Ames IA 50011

 

gerrymck at iastate.edu

 

There Is No Answer, Only Solutions / Olde Irish Saying

 

The Future Is Already Here, It's Just Not Evenly Distributed

Attributed To William Gibson, SciFi Author / Coined 'Cyberspace