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  • DevLab’s End of Semester Best Computing Practices Workshop, Wed, Dec 4, 2013, 4-5PM

    S is for Security!
    S is for Security!

    Our computers and other computing devices store some of our most important belongings: photos, videos, music, syllabi, research, and manuscripts. We owe it to ourselves to maintain and protect these things through best practices in computer maintenance, security, backups, and training. During the upcoming winter break, I would like to encourage everyone to spend some time putting your cyber-house in order before the spring semester begins.

    To help you with this and to promote best practices, I will hold a workshop in DevLab on Wednesday, Dec. 4 from 4:00-5:00PM before D-Ped. Workshop participants are encouraged to bring their Mac or PC to the meeting. Tablets are also welcome.

    Before or after the workshop, you can download the first version of my best practices guide from here: ellis-jason-best-computing-practices-v1.pdf

    If you have a question for the workshop that I cannot answer off the top of my head, we can use the workshop as an opportunity to learn something new together.

    See you in DevLab!

  • My Poster for SAMLA 2013: The Brittain Fellowship’s DevLab: Space, Resources, Expertise, and Collaboration

    My DevLab Poster.
    My DevLab Poster.

    This year, Georgia Tech’s Writing and Communication Program and its Brittain Fellows had a strong presence at the annual South Atlantic Modern Language Association meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.

    I presented a poster on the program’s R&D unit, DevLab. To compose the poster, I took a panoramic photo of DevLab’s main space (we also have an external recording booth). My students and fellow Brittain Fellows are pictured doing work and collaborating at various events over the past few months.

    Standing next to my poster in the Buckhead Marriott.
    Standing next to my poster in the Buckhead Marriott.

    We also had posters on the Communication Center, our pedagogical research, and our scholarly research. Here’s a list of all posters from the official program:

    10. Georgia Institute of Technology Brittain Fellowship,

    Poster Series I

    The Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Georgia Institute of Technology

    a. Jason Ellis, DevLab: Research and Development Lab Facility

    b. CommLab: Tutoring Center for Multimodal Communication

    11. Georgia Institute of Technology Brittain Fellowship, Poster Series II

    WOVEN: Multimodal Communication in the Classroom

    a. Joy Bracewell

    b. Jennifer Lux

    c. Julia Munro

    12. Georgia Institute of Technology Brittain Fellowship, Poster Series III

    Intersections between Scholarship and Pedagogy

    a. Aaron Kashtan

    b. Jennifer Orth-Veillon

    c. Aron Pease

    13. Georgia Institute of Technology Brittain Fellowship, Poster Series IV

    Changing Higher Education

    a. Mirja Lobnik, World Englishes Committee

    b. Multiple Presenters, Curriculum Innovation Committee

    c. Arts Initiatives Committee

    Besides participating in the poster session, I also took notes from N. Katherine Hayles’ plenary lecture on Friday afternoon. I will post my notes from that talk here soon.

    Next year, I will propose a paper for SAMLA and hopefully present an updated version of the DevLab poster. See you there!