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Greetings! Welcome to Peg Syverson's Site |
M. A.
Syverson
Director, Computer Writing and Research Lab
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712
Office: PAR 124 
Phone: 512.471.8734
syverson@uts.cc.utexas.edu
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This page has been turned black as a sign of protest and resistance to
the methods by which George W. Bush and his campaign subverted the democratic
process and seized presidential power. (Rationale
and more
information)
I've also been involved in several ongoing projects. The Learning Record Online is a large-scale project that documents students' development and achievement using diverse forms of evidence of student learning. The Learning Record Online was adapted for college-level courses with permission from the Learning Record, developed for K-12 by the Center for Language in Learning. It has been funded by the Carnegie Foundation, DARPA, the Institute for Technology and Learning, and UT's College of Liberal Arts. We are currently working on a web-to-database application of the Learning Record. This new application will support the use of the Learning Record on the web and also develop a national archive that can be used for research on learning in college level courses.
Worlds Fair is a large collaborative project which engages visitors in a web-based science fiction story that incorporates multimedia exhibits for an intergalactic "worlds fair". Contributions may include non-fiction exhibits about some aspect of life on earth, or science fiction exhibits from remote galaxies. Recently, Worlds Fair received an Innovations in Instructional Technology Award from UT.
I'm also very pleased to be one of the editors for the online component of the Computers and Composition Journal, the leading international journal for teachers of writing in computer-enhanced environments.
