Michael Day: Organizations
I am currently chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication's Committee on Computers in Composition and Communication.I am a member of and the webmaster for the National Council of Teachers of English Committee on Technical and Scientific Communication.
From 1994 to 1996 I served as Associate Chair and from 1996 to 1998 I served as Chair of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)Assembly on Computers in English (ACE), a group dedicated to helping K-16 English teachers who would like to use computers and networking in the classroom. Each year in November from 1993 to 1998 I ran the ACE software sampler booth at the NCTE convention. I also serve on the NCTE committees on Scientific and Technical Communication and Instructional Technology
From 1994 to 1999 I was co-chair of the Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing (GPACW), a regional affiliate of the Alliance for Computers and Writing
The GPACW had its first conference April 19th and 20th, 1997 on the campus of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, and its second conference April 18th and 19th 1998. Click here for the program of the 1998 conference. For more information, please vist the GPACW Web Page
From May 27 to 30, 1999, I hosted The Fifteenth Computers and Writing Conference at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.
From 1994 to 1999 I was the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology director of the Epiphany Project, an Annenberg/CPB funded project for training writing teachers in technology.
From 1996 to 1999 I served as chair of the Bush Faculty Development Committee at SDSM&T. SDSM&T is a member of The Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching and Learning, which is supported in part by the Bush Foundation.With Roger Ochse, I am collaborating on a Collaboration Traveling Faculty Development Workshop called Critical Thinking and the Internet: A Hands-On Workshop for Exploring On-Line Modes of Teaching, Learning, & Research
In November 1998 I was asked to keynote the Collaboration's first virtual conference, "Teaching and Learning in Cyberspace." Here is my address. In April 1999, I presented another keynote address on evaluating teaching in electronic environments for the second Collaboration virtual conference. Most recently, I presented a plenary address for the third Collaboration virtual conference.