July JoLLE Update
Take Two, Scholars Speak Out, Conference Theme Announcement
Scholars Speak Out
In her essay "Year Seven…Now What?", Crystal L. Beach addresses issues surrounding teacher turnaround and what educators can do to support their career goals and ambitions in order to become the best teachers for their students that they can be.
Crystal L. Beach is a current high school English teacher and a language and literacy education doctoral candidate at The University of Georgia. Her research interests include new literacies, identity, multimodalities, and technologies in the English classroom. In her free time, she enjoys adventuring with her two dogs, Dane, a white boxer, and Briggs, an English bulldog (shown in picture); spending time at the beach; running; and practicing yoga.
You can read the full Scholars Speak Out feature HERE.
Manuscript Submission Deadline for Fall 2016 Issue
The deadline for manuscript submissions that will be considered for the unthemed JoLLE Fall 2016 Issue is October 3rd, 2016 at 11:59 p.m. EST. Please submit your papers to jollesubmissions@uga.edu. For more information, please click HERE.
July Take 2
In 2008, Jennifer C. Stone and Erika S. Veth wrote a manuscript for JoLLE that investigated the intersection of gender norms and popular internet culture. Recently, The Pew Research Center reported that the percentage of smartphone users nearly doubled from 2011-2015, and the number of Americans who use their phone as their primary mode of internet access is increasing. In July of 2015, the Pentagon announced plans to allow transgender people to serve openly in the military. The internet has insinuated itself into our pockets, increasing our exposure to it in all parts of our lives, and issues surrounding gender will certainly be foregrounded in America’s first presidential election featuring a woman earning the nomination of a major political party. So, JoLLE invited Dr. Stone to reflect on her research and the issue of internet-based gender representation addressed in her article, “Rethinking the new literatures of childhood: Cultural models of gender in popular websites.” which can be found HERE.