Description: CIWIC/DMAC: An Ecology of Influence at Columbia College Chicago | Computers and Composition
This collaboratively written multi-modal compositon offers a relatively bounded landscape for which we employ the ecology metaphor as an analytical lens. The authors of this piece gathered around a dining room table and compared recollections, insights, and best practices we have adopted since each of us attended CIWIC/DMAC. Following a recording of this two-hour conversation, each of us was tasked with producing a text conveying our individual insights either from our first-hand experiences at CIWIC/DMAC o
Anyone who has been to CIWIC/DMAC knows that much of the conversation considers the student as focus for the implementation of technopedagogies in the classroom. Instead, our pieces focus on CIWIC/DMAC’s influence on our own scholarly production and teaching praxes, as well as how those influences have impacted our local institution, as a way to feature/foreground our relationship to our experience at CIWIC/DMAC and, by extension, the relationships between and among each other via our longitudinal connectio
Our individual pieces share three interdependent themes that reflect how each of our experiences lives within our institutional context or environment and might be considered a wecology as a collective text: openness, messiness, and hospitality.