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<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">TECHNOLOGY INNOVATOR AWARD</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">Deadline for nominations: 5 April 2020</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">The
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.ncte.org/cccc/committees/7cs"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">CCCC Committee on Computers in Composition and Communication</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">
will honor an innovator in our community virtually for 2021. We need your help to identify a person who has pushed our field regarding excellence in teaching, more rigorous scholarship, and deeper levels of service.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">Among other qualities, this year's innovator will be the person whom you recognize as having done the most to help other teachers use computer-mediated learning
and teaching and has served as a mentor to those new to computers and composition.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">This year's recipient should be a person who pushes the envelope, who moves us beyond the cutting edge to the bleeding edge, who is willing to open the technological
Pandora's Box knowing full well that the challenges and work that we'll meet as that Box is opened will strengthen our community and make our classes better. The recipient of the Technology Innovator Award might be referred to as an outstanding leader or an
electronic pioneer who calls our assumptions into question, urging us to engage in an active search for new and exciting ways to accomplish our pedagogical goals in the composition classroom.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">Nominees for the award can be of any academic rank (student, contract, staff, tenure-line or tenured faculty, etc.) as well as independent scholars. </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">The 7Cs committee strongly encourages nominations of NTT-career lines and early-career TT lines. </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">CRITERIA FOR THE AWARD</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">The recipient of the Technology Innovator Award</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">has made a significant groundbreaking or foundational contribution to the field of computers and composition<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:#232323;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">demonstrates outstanding teaching achievements with computer technologies<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:#232323;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">provides ongoing support and encouragement to the community, in particular to those who teach with computer technologies<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:#232323;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">contributes to the field through scholarship and publication in print and electronic media (including such media as journal articles, discussion lists, webtexts/hypertexts, text/book authorship,
and editorial work)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">NOMINATION PROCESS</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">While we ask that you keep nomination letters to 750 to 1000 words, we do encourage you to include or link to CVs and supplementary material. Do keep in mind that
the more thorough the nominations are, the better the individual's chances. Stated another way: Nominations consisting of only a name, a few sentences, and a link to a CV may not stand up against more formal, detailed nominations. We encourage single letters
of recommendation crafted and signed by individuals or groups instead of multiple letters for a single nominee.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Nomination letters should be kept to 750-1000 words.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:#232323;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A nomination should consist of an email that includes specific details on the nominee's award qualifications. Nominations should contain information on accessing materials that demonstrate the nominee's
work. Attachments are acceptable. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:#232323;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Nominations can be submitted by an individual, a group of individuals, or a professional organization (e.g., the Assembly on Computers on English, the Council of Writing Program Administrators, the
CCCC Caucus on Intellectual Property and Composition, etc.).<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:#232323;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Self-nominations are encouraged.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">NOMINATION PROCESS</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">Beginning in 2007, the 7Cs elected to keep nominations for this award in a two-year rotation. The judging committee, comprised of previous winners of this award,
will consider all nominations from last year (2020) in addition to any new nominations for this year. We recognize the work you put into the nomination process and want to recognize that by considering deserving individuals without repeating the paperwork.
If you want to nominate someone and you aren't sure whether they were nominated last year, please contact the Technology Innovator Award Coordinator Estee Beck at estee.beck@uta.edu for clarification/confirmation.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">Please title the email: Tech Innovator Award: NOMINEE'S LASTNAME</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">Send nominations via email to the award coordinator Estee Beck at estee.beck@uta.edu</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">Deadline for nominations: 5 April 2021</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">PAST WINNERS</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">The following outstanding members of the computers and writing community have already received the Technology Innovator Award. (Past winners should not be re-nominated.) </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">The judging committee is typically comprised of the five most-recent-years' past winners.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">2020: Laura Gonzales</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">2019: Jim Ridolfo</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">2018: Stephanie Vie</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">2017: Traci Gardner</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">2016: Karl Stolley </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">2015: MSU's WIDE</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">2014: Dan Anderson</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">2013: Angela Haas</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">2012: Cheryl Ball</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">2011: Charlie Lowe & Michael Day (tie)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">2010: Nick Carbone</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">2009: Dànielle DeVoss & Will Hochman (tie)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">2008: Janice Walker</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">2007: Kris Blair</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">2006: Mike Palmquist</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">2005: Richard Selfe</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">2004: Carolyn Handa</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">2003: Charles Moran</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">2002: John Slatin</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">2001: Lisa Gerrard</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">2000: Gail Hawisher and Cynthia Selfe</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">1999: Fred Kemp</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232323">Please send questions, comments, and nomination submissions to Technology Innovator Award Coordinator Estee Beck at estee.beck@uta.edu</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Medium"">Estee Beck, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Medium"">Assistant Professor of Technical and Professional Writing/Digital Humanities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Medium"">Coordinator of Technical Writing and Professional Communication<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Medium"">Department of English, The University of Texas at Arlington<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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