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Call for Papers: Computers and Writing 2009 Ubiquitous and Sustainable Computing @ School @ Work @ Play

Conference Website: http://conferences.ucdavis.edu/cw09
Questions? Contact Carl Whithaus, Conference Chair: cwwhithaus

The University of California, Davis will host Computers and Writing 2009 on June 18-21, 2009. As a host institution UC Davis draws on the strengths of a wide range of faculty and programs; our planning committee includes faculty and graduate students from the University Writing Program, the School of Education, the Graduate Group in Education (Language, Literacy, and Culture Emphasis), Technocultural Studies, and the Teaching Resources Center. The presence of writing faculty from UC Santa Barbara, UC Irvine, CSU Sacramento, and CSU San Jose on the planning committee demonstrates our commitment to working across campuses and to appealing to a wide array of participants.

Our goal with this conference is to transcend traditional boundaries: among school, work, and play; among academic disciplines; between k-12 and higher education; between online and offline; and among organizers, attenders, and presenters. The conference theme will help bridge what can sometimes be divergent contexts for inquiry, and our diverse collection of organizers and sponsors will foster interdisciplinary conversations. Critical to our vision for Computers and Writing 2009 is a sustainable perspective on lifelong computing and communication, which we achieve partly by integrating k-12 teachers as conference participants. (Attending teachers may also take advantage of professional development credit through University Extension.) By making k-12 as well as postsecondary education an integral part of the conference, UC Davis will challenge conference participants not only to think about ubiquitous and sustainable computing in their own classrooms or workplaces, but within broader social and cultural dynamics across our lifespans and across learning institutions.

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