The responses to my video CFP were all positive. Everyone understood the purpose and the goal.
3 out of 5 went to the Kairos website for more details. All three wanted to submit, but did not feel they could. One is taking a pause from her education as a publishing major to work full time. The other is in his first semster of college and didn’t feel experienced enough to do so. The last person in that group is busy with a career and wished they were still in college. The 2 who didn’t go to the site loved that undergrads were being given a chance to be a part of something like this; it challenged their ideas of what the divison between educators and students. All 5 were unphased by the idea of composing multi-multimodally for an academic journal. I think the most common response was, “COOL!” I didn’t ask them if they felt cpable enough to work with the tools they would need to do so. Now I wish that I had. I wonder if it would have changed their responses.
The mix of quick message and the dropdown for more information seems like it achieved what I was aiming for, though I wonder if it would be wise to compose another version to exist independant of YouTube.
Susan,
Sorry I didn’t respond to your email; I didn’t have outgoing email and have been engaged in a workshop with no significant email breaks for the last two days. I’m assuming you found Daniel’s email through the ILSTU search website.
In related news, I wanted to pass on this CFP for a conference on creativity at U of Alabama. Deadline March 15:
http://www.hastac.org/node/1963
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Here’s what the special issue editor said:
Interesting choice conceptually, both timed at the one minute mark and
providing some good action for “cooking” the call into something tasty
(“success”!).
Change the word “papers” (in “Call for Papers”) to “texts.”