Technology Innovator Award

Criteria, Nomination and Selection Process

Past Winners

Description of the Award

Presented, as occasion demands, to a person who has served or serves as an exemplar for teachers working with computer technologies in their classes and who represents the highest ideals of scholarship, teaching, and service to the entire profession. The award is presented at the annual Computers and Writing Conference by a representative of the CCCC Committee on Computers in Composition and Communication (7C's).

The recipient of this award is an outstanding leader in computer-based pedagogy who has made a continuing contribution to the application and use of computer technology in the field of composition studies (including scholarly work in language, composition, rhetoric, and pedagogy). In the typical language of exemplar awards, the recipient might be referred to as a living legend, an outstanding leader, or an electronic pioneer.

In more friendly terms, this award might be called the Troublemaker Award. The recipient is a person who pushes the envelope, who moves us beyond the cutting edge to the bleeding edge, who is willing to open the technological Pandora's Box, knowing full well that for all the challenges and work that we'll meet as that Box is opened, we as community will be stronger and our classes better. A Technology Exemplar calls our assumptions into question, urging us to engage in an active search for new and exciting ways to accomplish our pedagogical goals in the composition classroom.