I’ve been looking for good ways to keep in touch with writing center alumni and to make their stories visible to current tutors and other alumni. At the NEWCA conference this year, Tom Denton mentioned his center’s alumni webpage. So I looked it up. It’s wonderful! Check it out. I start us here at the page [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Featured Site: SUNY Dutchess WC Alumni Page
Posted in community, featured site, technology, tagged alumni, technology, Tom Denton, tutors on April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
WAC and Writing Centers: Free DVD
Posted in WAC, administrators on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Are you interested in ways writing centers can facilitate faculty development, enhancing writing pedagogy in many disciplines?
Keene State College’s Center for Writing Director, Phyllis Benay, brought a number of Shaped By Writing, Too DVDs to the Burlington conference to distribute. The stack was gone by Saturday afternoon, but if you’d like a free copy, follow the [...]
SIG report: WC Assessment & Research
Posted in NEWCA Conference, administrators, assessment, research on April 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Michelle Deal and Collie Fulford combined SIGs and hosted conversation across two sessions that explored the intersections of WC assessment and research. In attendance were our conference host, Sue Dinitz of University of Vermont, and Tom Denton of SUNY Dutchess Community College; we were joined by Nichole Bennett-Bealer of SUNY Plattsburgh, Sarah Blazer & Carolyn [...]
NEWCA “WC Administration” SIG (Sunday, 13 April 2008)
Posted in NEWCA Conference, administrators on April 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Pat Morelli (U Hartford) and Jennifer Jefferson (Endicott College), co-facilitators
As part of NEWCA’s first (and successful!) experimentation with Special Interest Groups (SIGs) on the last day of the conference, the SIG on WC Administration began its informal conversation with Pat tossing out a few talking points that are of interest to her – and because [...]
Featured Site: The Rutgers Writers House
Posted in featured site, space, technology, tagged center, house, miller, richard, rutgers, technology, writers, writing on April 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Since the topic of the new Writers House at Rutgers came up with weekend at the NEWCA conference, here’s the link to the YouTube video documenting this innovative writing space.
Do You Like Techno?
Posted in NEWCA Conference, technology on April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, this weekend I will be facilitating the NEWCA technology SIG at our annual conference. I have to admit that though I have a good understanding of technology I’m not always in favor of it. However, with “five year plans” and accreditation committees constantly talking about monies for technology, it is a necessary [...]
