Call for Brown Bag Proposals Spring 2010

Call for Proposals:
CWP Brown Bag Talks 2010
Creative Assignments
The Campus Writing Program invites proposals for Brown Bag talks for Spring 2010.
The Brown Bag talk is an excellent venue for sharing with the campus community teaching experiences, ideas, theories, and research about writing.
Brown Bags also give faculty the opportunity to learn from one another in ways [...]

CWP Ranks as Top Program in U.S.

In its 2010 listing, US News & World Report ranks the Campus Writing Program as one of the best Writing in the Discipline programs in the country.

2009 Focus on Teaching and Technology Conference

WI faculty interested in technology might find this event worth attending:

The 2009 Focus on Teaching and Technology Conference is scheduled October 15-16 on the campus of the University of Missouri – St. Louis. We are soliciting proposals for workshops, concurrent sessions, and for a poster session, with the theme of Beyond Gadgets: Connecting Teaching and [...]

Professor Encourages Students to Pass Notes During Class — via Twitter

From The Chronicle of Higher Education:
Cole W. Camplese, director of education-technology services at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, prefers to teach in classrooms with two screens — one to project his slides, and another to project a Twitter stream of notes from students. He knows he is inviting distraction — after all, he’s essentially [...]

Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives

The Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives at Ohio State provides videos of students and faculty sharing their introductions to various aspects of literacy acquisition. Browsing the archive allows readers the opportunity to gain insight into differnt kinds of literacy experiences.

Twitter

David Silver, professor of media studies at San Francisco State, describes using Twitter in his classroom.  Silver explains three ways Twitter has changed student discussion that takes place outside of class.