CWP - Brown Bag Lunch Series

Campus Writing Program is pleased to announce its Brown Bag Lunch Series for Spring 2008. The Brown Bag Series provides opportunities for faculty to share experiences related to writing, thinking, and learning in the classroom. No registration is necessary. Please feel free to bring your lunch and to enjoy refreshments that we provide.

Ekphrasis comes from the Greek for “speaking out”, and referred to a rhetorical description of a work of art. Ekphrasis ranges from traditional art appreciation to the highly contested terrain between critical and literary theory, art history, and philosophy. Most of all, ekphrasis deliberately incorporates art into the dynamic realm of communications and symbols, thereby providing a marvelous opportunity for students and faculty at the University of Missouri to engage works of art at the Museum of Art & Archaeology in a contemporary dialogue about meanings that stretches far across time and academic categories. (Adapted from “Ekphrasis and the Museum,” by Museum Director Dr. Alex Barker).

"Speak up! I can't read you" One faculty member and 50+ WI students: Experiences using the audio capabilities of Blackboard.

Dr. Glen Heggie, School of Health Professions

Thursday, March 14, 2008

12:00 - 1:00pm

Conley House, Room 101

Most of MU's Writing Intensive courses are offered via face-to-face classes. A number of departments have, for a variety of reasons provided a cluster of their WI courses as online classes. Last month --January '08-- Blackboard added an audio package called "Wimba" to the tools available for faculty wanting to personalize their Blackboard-based offerings. Even though this faculty member has only been using Wimba for less than a month, feedback and results have been overwhelmingly, and unexpectedly positive. The session will speak to what the students have said, and what this might mean as we investigate the strengths and challenges of offering online classes to WI students.