Awards

2014 Kairos Best Webtext Award

Kairos Best Webtext Award 2014 for Crossing Battle Lines

The DWRL celebrates recipients of the 2014 Kairos Best Webtext Award for "Crossing Battle Lines: Teaching Multimodal Literacies through Alternate Reality Games"!

Winners include Scott Nelson, Chris Ortiz Y Prentice, M. Catherine Coleman, Eric Detweiler, Marjorie Foley, Kendall Gerdes, Cleve Wiese, R. Scott Garbacz, and Matt King, whose research on designing and having students play an alternate reality game (ARG) in the rhetoric classroom was published in "Crossing Battle Lines."

The ARG, Battle Lines, overlaid the modern-day story of a hacker-detective on top of the wild west era dispute between Texas Governor "Pa" Ferguson and university president William Battle. Students investigate the disappearance of the game's guide, a history grad student named Amanda, and in the process undertake on-line and live action rhetorical tasks, learning about and composing with new media tools as they go.

"Crossing Battle Lines" shares the game's challenges along with student responses, and the authors reflect on how effectively Battle Lines was used to meet rhetorical learning objectives. The Kairos award was presented at this year's Computers and Writing Conference in Pullman, WA.

2010 Kairos John Lovas Memorial Weblog Award

Kairos John Lovas Memorial Weblog Award for viz.

In 2010, Kairos awarded the John Lovas Memorial Weblog Award to the DWRL's visual rhetoric blog Viz. The award was presented at the Computers and Writing Conference at Purdue University. Read more from the Viz. editors here.