Welcome to Writing and Publishing in Digital Environments!
Take a moment to tell us about yourself, why you’re interested in this project, and get to know your fellow team members. We look forward to working with you on this exciting project.
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Hello! I’m testing this out!
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I’m excited to see this project come together! I’m teaching “Writing for Digital Environments” in Fall 2021 and I’m eager to incorporate this resource. I’ve been thinking a lot about the platform that I want to introduce students to in the course. I’m leaning toward our university’s instance of OpenLab (a Wordpress Multi-site) and find myself wanting to talk to students about the difference between content management systems and website builders. Is this topic something you’d like to include in this textbook?
@misbell - That’s a great idea! I think I will now…! Would you like to contribute this section to the book? 
Why yes, I would be delighted to do so!
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Yay! My first contributor! I’ll send along more details soon! 
@ElaineThornton - Welcome to the team!
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Hi everyone, I’m looking forward to contributing. I oversee and periodically teach about various forms of digital writing for health sciences. Also, I write both blogs and articles for the college, and periodically for professional organizations I am affiliated with. I was drawn to that section of the book and submitted an interest email. The other area that I have particular interest in is around writing in plain language. This is so important in health care and public health, in order to be an effective communicator and spur change leading to better health outcomes. Having looked around for resources, I was really excited to see this book being created! There’s just such a need. I’m looking forward to working with you all!
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@maryton - Welcome to the team!! Please feel free to introduce yourself to the other folks on the team.
Hi everyone! I’m very excited to be joining the team. I am the Digital Publishing Specialist at the University of Illinois Libraries. As part of my work with the Illinois Open Publishing Network, I create documentation for authors preparing long-form monographs for publication via Pressbooks, Omeka, and Scalar. My interest in this particular textbook stems from my background teaching professional writing at Indiana University and my experience creating a digital dissertation for my Ph.D. in British Literature. Looking forward to working with you all!
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I would be very interested to see a section on content management systems and website builders! Perhaps this could also cover how to evaluate hosting options?
@jfandel - Welcome to the team! Feel free to introduce yourself
Welcome @gladja0! Would love for you to introduce yourself!
Hi, @WriDig-team! A few new folks are joining us, as acceptance letters are going out for author contributions. Welcome to @Adrienne_Lamberti! Anyone who’s joined recently, please feel free to introduce yourselves!
Hi everyone, I teach Writing and Rhetoric and American Literature at a two-year college in Idaho. I’m also part of a Rebus Project, GEM Guide: Writing and Rhetoric, which is now in its beta stage on Pressbooks as Write What Matters. I followed your project, @jsheffield, because I’m eager to see how it develops and what kind of overlap it might have with parts of our textbook (if any). Right now I don’t plan to be a contributor, but I’m definitely interested in observing your project.
@gladja0 - Great to hear - happy to have you observe the project, and I’m interested in checking yours out, too.
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Hello everyone. My name is Ursula Pike and I work for the Digital Higher Education Consortium of Texas housed at Austin Community College in Austin, Texas. I am interested in this project because I want to learn more about the nuts and bolts of publishing an OER. I have published personal essays in online literary journals, therefore, my experience is more practical than academic but I think that can be helpful. I also teach Creative Writing for Austin Community College and see ways to incorporate Writing and Publishing in Digital Environments into my course. I’m a big proponent of using OER to infuse equity, diversity, and inclusion into course work. Looking forward to working with all of you.
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Hey all! My name is Kennedy Essmiller, and I am working on my MFA in Creative Writing Fiction at Oklahoma State University. I’ve taught Intro to Creative Writing and Composition 1 and 2, and I love how helpful OER and Open Access has been. I am interested in this textbook and opportunity to contribute because my mother (Kathy Essmiller) is the OER librarian at OSU, and so I have been hearing about OER and the benefits of it for years now. I’m excited to get to work with you all on this.
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