EServer Lectures on Demand
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EServer Lectures on Demand is a collection of streaming academic and culturally related lectures. We invite you to browse and view the presentations as you wish.
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| 1 | VideoDatabases and Textboks (Whether 'Natural Enemies' or Not) Can Become Allies | Textbooks have been a hybrid genre, neither quite narratives or databases, and the longer (700-800 page) textbooks popular in the field of technical communication have therefore faced difficulties integrating online resources to assist students and instructors in tech comm courses. This paper, presented at the 2011 Annual CCCCs, describes one method to use web-based resources to supplement the survey intro to technical communication course. | 4/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoBodies of Knowledge for Technical Communication: Paradigms and Possibilities | The presenters summarize and discuss two emerging paradigms for defining a technical communication body of knowledge: the EServer Technical Communication Library and the Society for Technical Communication's TCBOK project. The respondent sums up the alternatives presented, then frame the discussion of possibilities these projects present for advancing the field. | 4/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoGet to Know XML | The XML format was developed in the 1990s in a hope to develop a universal format for documents, replacing proprietary binary formats that couldn’t integrate with one another. And we’re beginning to see the results. In this talk, Dr. Geoffrey Sauer will present an introduction to XML, with an overview that will explain to people who’re not familiar with it why this is a good thing, and how we can begin to use XML formats to our advantage as technical communicators. | 2/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoEvaluating and Assessing Digital Scholarship for Teaching and Research | This interactive workshop invited participants to discuss "what is scholarly" about digital pieces published in journals and/or produced for classes. Cheryl led a discussion about guidelines that are available for evaluating this kind of work as well as underscore what relationship digital scholarship has to traditional print scholarship. | 2/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoScreencasting for Dummies (and Smarties) | With so much training being done on computers (along with other tasks being done while training is taking place on that same computer), it’s important to know some best practices for developing training and other modules with screencasts. Amy Tehan will demonstrate tips and tricks for making an effective screencast that will hold the viewer’s attention and get the message across. | 11/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoAgainst Publication: Rethinking the Reward System Within the New Corporate University | Frank Donoghue’s _The Last Professors_ examines how the growing corporate culture of higher education threatens its most fundamental values by erasing one of its defining features: the tenured professor. In particular, he observes this trend through the lens of tenured professors in the arts and humanities, the value of whose work does not always lend itself to modes of cost benefit analysis. In the 2009 Goldtrap Lecture at Iowa State University, Professor Donoghue extends his analysis of trends within academe by asking questions about the reward structure surrounding publication, especially as it relates to tenure and promotion. “We're all producing scholarly publication because we're obliged to, but no one is obliged to read what we publish,” he argues. He notes that “only two percent of all published monographs and articles in the arts and humanities is ever cited.” In “Against Publication,” Professor Donoghue suggests that the time has come for a fundamental change to the present reward system within academe. | 10/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoCollaborative Document Reviews with Adobe Acrobat | A presentation to the STC Central Iowa, providing an overview of how to use Adobe Acrobat to facilitate worldwide document reviews by subject-matter experts when developing professional/technical writing, with a question-and-answer period afterwards. Introduced by Jessi Strawn, STC Central Iowa president. | 9/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Software "Issues" in Higher Education | In this presentation from August 2007, Geoffrey Sauer suggests that many faculty in higher education have "issues" when teaching with software—in the sense used by students, meaning problems that could be solved by time spent resolving emotional clichés which interfere with clear thinking about the topic. | 8/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoEnd World Slavery Now | A public lecture by Kevin Bales, president of the international nonprofit organization Free the Slaves. It was given on January 20, 2009, in the La Sala ballroom of the University Center Building at Arizona State University-West. Bales’ appearance was sponsored by ASU’s Master of Arts in Social Justice and Human Rights (MASJHR) degree program and co-sponsored by The Light of Hope Foundation and ALERT (International Rescue Committee). | 7/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoA Torch for Tomorrow: Civil Rights Protest Literature and the Historical Memory of Abolitionism | A video of an April 2008 talk by Zoe Trodd (Harvard University) on "A Torch for Tomorrow: Civil Rights Protest Literature and the Historical Memory of Abolitionism", at Arizona State University. Provided by the EServer Antislavery Literature Project. | 7/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoTOPIC/ICON: A System for Distributed Assessment to Improve Student Writing Education | At Texas Tech University, graduate students teaching freshman composition are divided into two groups: "classroom instructors," who meet students once a week to go over grammar, style, and argumentation, and to discuss weekly assignments; and "document instructors," who grade the assignments anonymously using a computer system. The new approach has cut class time in half and increased the amount of writing students do -- to about 35 essays, peer-evaluations, and self-critiques each semester. It also allows faculty members to monitor the graders closely, determining whether some are giving higher-than-average marks and reviewing their commentary. Rich Rice discusses the current development of this project and some of the findings it has facilitated at Texas Tech University. | 4/5/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoWhen the Gown Entertains the Crown: Performing Intellectuals in Elizabethan England | This paper discusses the circumstances of Queen Elizabeth's sixteenth-century requests to her universities to have scholars come to court to perform 'lighthearted comedies' to entertain the court. | 11/13/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoUsing the English Department Course Websites (Moodle) | An introduction to the ISU English Department Course Website system, based on the open-source course management system "Moodle". | 11/13/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoA Comparative Study of Lexical Bundles in History Writing in English and Spanish | The study of recurrent word combinations such as lexical bundles has become a focus of many corpus-based studies in the last decade. This presentation reports the findings of a study which analyzed the use of lexical bundles in two 1,000,000-word corpora of published history writing, one in English from American journals and one in Spanish, from Argentinean publications. The analyses showed that the bundles identified in each language had many features in common. | 10/19/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoWriting in a Visual Age | You don't have to use PowerPoint to create an effective integration of visual and verbal information. RPI professor Lee Odell investigates some of the semiotic and visual-rhetorical conventions that may enable such an integration. | 10/19/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoJacksonian Mobs and the Rise of Antislavery Poetry | Antislavery poetry in the antebellum United States presents a fascinating and largely unexplored intersection between emergent concepts of civil liberties, the impetus of political events, and their interpretation through poetic imagination. This paper discusses the growth of antislavery poetry in popular journals during the 1830s, focusing especially on the martyr poetry published after the murder of abolitionist journalist Elijah Lovejoy in 1837. | 10/19/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoThree on One: Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers" | Christiana Langenberg, Marty Graham, and Barb Duffelmeyer discuss Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers," a play set in turn-of-the-century Iowa which sparks debate on men's and women's differing sense of justice. | 10/19/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoThe Da Vinci Code: Fact, Fiction or Fake? | The Da Vinci Code is a work of fiction, but the first page announces several "facts." Among these are that a group known as the Priory of Sion, central to the plot of the novel, "is a real organization," and that "in 1975 Paris's Bibliotheque Nationale discovered parchments known as Les Dossier Secrets, identifying numerous members of the Priory of Sion, including...Leonardo da Vinci." While the Priory was a real order (briefly) in the Middle Ages, the Dossier secrets was revealed to be a forgery shortly after it was "discovered"--in other words, it was fake. This panel discussion explores issues of accuracy and responsibility that arise when an author of fiction appropriates so many elements of European history and culture and claims to be presenting readers with facts. | 10/19/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | VideoThe Natick Resolution | Henry Clarke Wright's 'The Natick Resolution' praised John Brown's October 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry as a heroic act. 'The Natick Resolution', which issued from a public meeting in Massachusetts, achieved national prominence for its endorsement of violence as a necessary tool to end slavery in the United States. | 10/19/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mise-en-scène in the Films of David Mamet | Studies the links between the cinema and the narrative theatrical sensibility in Mamet. The paper argues that despite Mamet's claims that all he knows about film he learned from Eisenstein, in matter of fact there appears little connection between Mamet's and Eisenstein's cinematic theories. In a 1999 interview, in fact, Mamet revealed that he had actually read fairly extensively from film theory. This paper suggests that that Mamet's films are particularly influenced by the work of V.I. Podovkin. When you look at Eistenstein's construction of uninflected shots, then examine Mamet's films in detail, it becomes apparent that Mamet's narrative cinema uses sequences as (Podovkian) linkage, rather than (Eisensteinian) collision. | 10/19/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Failure of Theory; or, Oleanna on Stage and Screen | Oleanna, Mamet's first film (1994), has generally been considered to be a "dud," in part because of the misapplication of his dramatic techniques to the screen. In Oleanna the film, the cut and thrust of the dialogue, which riveted audiences on stage, are both diminished. Mamet fails to realize that his concept of drama doesn't work in film. | 10/19/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Glenngarry Glen Ross: Mamet's Eisensteinian Success Story | This paper argues that though many adaptations of David Mamet's plays to film have been less than successful, the film version of Glengarry Glen Ross succeeds for a variety of reasons, including an Eisensteinian 'uninflected cut.' In a well-made Mamet film, one element of a scene comments on another, informing it, and that informs the audience's interpretive activity as they consider these uninflected cuts. | 10/19/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoSipping from The Crystal Goblet: Lessons from Beatrice Warde | This paper discusses the 1956 book The Crystal Goblet by Beatrice Warde, and about the significance of typography, and the theories of design which tend to underlie American typographic minimalism. | 10/19/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | VideoKilling the Angel in the House: Gendered Roles in Publishing and the Victorian Cult of True Womanhood | This paper discusses the roles foisted upon women by the publishing industry in the nineteenth century, and examines their implications for contemporary women writers. | 10/19/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | Video'Send Whatever You Want': A Case Study in Twenty-First Century Independent Publishing | A case study of McSweeney's, an independent publishing company that is finding success where larger, mass-market publishers have not. | 10/19/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 26 | VideoAbout the EServer: Online Publishing in the Arts and Humanities | An introduction to the EServer, an arts and humanities online publisher. Presented at the ISU Library's Emerging Educational Technology Event Series. | 10/19/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Surveying the City of Bits: Community, Commerce and the Virtual University | In contemporary business texts corporate sponsored on-line communities are described as central to the commercial development of the Internet, and to the imagined future of narrowcasting and mass customization in the wider world of marketing and advertising. My paper outlines a history of how on-line community has been represented within models of Ecommerce. It critically examines the arguments, narratives and rhetorical strategies drawn on within contemporary business texts to represent on-line community. The paper also examines some of the connections that are emerging between commercial on-line community development, and commercial models of on-line education. My paper explores how many of the same organizations, strategies, and ways of representing on-line communities and community resources associated with corporate sponsored on-line communities are being reproduced in models of on-line education. I argue that strategic alliances ought to be made between academics and various community groups, in order to keep both communities resources in the public domain. I also argue that teachers need something like an Open Source movement for on-line academic resources, and that taking a leaf out of the book of groups like the Free Software Foundation, we ought to create something like a Free Courseware Foundation, which gives teachers greater control of their resources and better enables them to share materials with colleagues and with the public. | 10/19/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Software Environments for Technical Writing | Starting with the development of Caterpillar Fundamental English in the 1970's, industry has made several attempts to formalize and standardize the writing process, both to promote consistency and quality for the reader and to improve the possibilities for automatic text processing (e.g. translation to other languages). This presentation reviews the work at the CMU Language Technologies Institute on a software environment for automatic document checking, specifically to address the issue of how such environments can be productive (and hence useful) for the technical writer. | 10/19/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Marriage of Rhetoric and Pragmatics | The current proliferation of hermeneutic resources with a linguistic base--pragmatics, speech act theory, classical rhetoric theory, Burkean analysis, conversational analysis, Habermasian communicative action--is an embarras de richesse. Surely, at this point, we need, not another theory, but rather an attempt at synthesis, an attempt to turn this hermeneutic plentitude into a single theory. In this paper, we propose to take an initial step in this direction, to attempt to marry pragmatics and rhetoric. But given the theoretical exfoliation that has marked these areas, such a marriage can be managed only by imposing very strict limitations on the scope of our enterprise. We believe, however, that we can take a step in our preferred direction by addressing the more specific problem of whether the theory of Paul Grice, the father of pragmatics, is compatible with the theory of Aristotle, the father of rhetoric. We intend to do so by reconstructing Aristotelian rhetoric as a pragmatics. | 10/19/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Thinking About the Millennium in Historical Perspective | This talk (presented in December 1999) addresses the underlying cultural conditions for millennial misgivings in the United States. It is based in part upon the presenter's 1996 book Millennium III, Century XXI: A Retrospective on the Future. | 10/19/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 31 | VideoStrategies and Roadblocks to the Inclusion of Community Expertise in Academic Research | This talk presents a case study which followed a graduate course in public policy. This course attempted to construct knowledge around a community based problem in collaboration with community members. The talk covers both the successes and difficulties of this research project. | 10/19/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 32 | VideoExploring Technical Communication | Exploring Technical Communication is a 30-minute video documentary introducing the profession. It consists of interviews with faculty and students in the University of Washington's Department of Technical Communication and with professionals in the STC. | 10/19/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Designing (for) Ourselves and (for) Others | This talk briefly traces how readers have been paid increasing attention, especially as they have become more active in text-making, rather than just text-reading. In particular, it discusses the rhetorical roles that readers assume in texts, and how those roles contribute to the success or failure of communication. | 10/19/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 34 | VideoDialectics and Progress | This talk was presented at the November 2003 Rethinking Marxism Conference at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and was videotaped by David Siar for Cultural Logic. | 10/19/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 35 | VideoThree on One: The Red Wheel Barrow | Three faculty members (Neil Nakadate, Laura Winkiel and David Zimmerman) from the English Department at Iowa State University offer three different approaches to teaching William Carlos Williams' "The Red Wheel Barrow." | 10/19/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 36 | Video"All That Is Holy Is Profaned": The Market and the University | This talk was presented at the November 2003 Rethinking Marxism Conference at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and was videotaped by David Siar for Cultural Logic. | 10/19/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 37 | VideoThree on One: Making an American Citizen | Three faculty members (Lee Poague, Amy Bix and Barb Blakely Duffelmeyer) discuss the 1912 film by the early French-American filmmaker Alice Guy Blaché, "Making an American Citizen." | 10/19/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 38 | VideoThree on One: Frankenstein | In this forum in the English Department of Iowa State University, three professors provide three different approaches to teaching Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein. | 10/19/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 39 | VideoThe Memoirs of Boston King, a Black Preacher | The Memoirs of Boston King, a Black Preacher (1798) present an autobiographical narrative of an ex-slave born around 1760 in South Carolina. King joined the British army to fight for his freedom during the American Revolution, re-settled in Nova Scotia after the war, and eventually became a Methodist missionary to Sierra Leone. This is a reading performance by Professor Neal Lester, chair of the Arizona State University English Department. | 10/19/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 40 | VideoThree on One: Othello | Three English professors (Susan Carlson, K.J. Gilchrist and Allen Michie) discuss three perspectives on William Shakespeare's Othello. | 10/19/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 41 | VideoThe Legend of Jack Trice and The Campaign for Jack Trice Stadium, 1973-1984 | This paper studies the representations of Iowa State University football player Jack Trice, and how these representations were used in discussions of sport and ethnicity at Iowa State University, 1973-84. | 10/19/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 42 | VideoWhat Happened on the Road to Peace | Palestinian violence over the past twenty months--including all of the suicide bombings--stems not from irreconcilable hatred but from exploding political frustrations on the ground. It is worthwhile to investigate the details of the political issues. | 4/1/04 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alienations of the Mother Tongue | This talk presents videos which incorporate digitally processed images of the face of white femininity in fashion--a face of techno-seduction that encodes race and class privilege. The seduction to become white femininity, conveyed through imaging technologies, is subverted through a computer animation process to reveal the seductive face’s ghostlike other in war photography. | 1/4/01 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 43 Episodes |
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