http://www.english.heacademy.ac.uk/explore/events/event_detail.php?event_index=281
Cost: No charge, but we reserve the right to charge a £15:00 non-attendance fee.
Last Date for registration: 14 Apr 10
Event Description:
Digital Writing crosses over Media, Creative Writing, Art & Design and English departments and demand for more higher education courses continues to grow. How are we meeting that demand and how is digital writing being taught? This free, one-day symposium is an opportunity to discuss, debate and sample Digital Writing with leading practitioners and university lecturers.
– How do we teach students to analyse digital writing?
– How do we teach students to create digital writing?
– What are the particular challenges and rewards of teaching and learning this developing genre?
These questions and others will inform the presentations and discussions.
The event takes place at the state-of-the-art Phoenix Square, in Leicester where delegates will have the opportunity to participate in a hands-on workshop and demonstration. Undergraduate and postgraduate students are welcome.
Confirmed speakers include: Award winning digital novelist – Kate Pullinger, Sue Thomas, Ruth Page and Tim Wright.
Programme: (subject to alteration)
9:30 Registration
Coffee/Tea
10:00 Welcome
Brett Lucas, English Subject Centre
10:10 Presentation
The Transliteracy Research Group
Kate Pullinger & Sue Thomas, De Montfort University
11:00 Panel Presentation & Discussion
Doing Digital Writing
Tim Wright, Digital author
Donna Leishman, Digital author
Respondant TBC
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Panel Presentation & Discussion: Teaching Digital Writing
Digital Writing and Pedagogy: How do We Teach, What Do We Teach?
Matt Hayler, University of Exeter
Designing Narratives and New Media
Will Slocombe, Aberystwyth University
The Next Frontier? Teaching electronic literature in the undergraduate classroom
Ruth Page, Birmingham City University
14:30 Hands-on Workshop and Demonstration
Tim Wright, Digital author
15:30 Keynote Address
Michael Bhaskar, Digital publisher, Serpent’s Tail/Profile Books
16:30 Closing Remarks
Kate Pullinger & Brett Lucas
16:45 Close