Technology, Design, & the Teaching of Writing Workshop Series

Description

Please join us for a series of conversations for faculty teaching writing within & beyond the face-to-face classroom. We will talk about the kinds of pleasant surprises you had this semester in the move to teaching writing online. By sharing these surprises, we will think together about the kinds of opportunities there are for the work ahead in the Fall, including possible forms that writing can take and the audiences that student writing can reach in online spaces. At the end of this workshop series, you’ll leave with a clearer understanding of the specific goals that you have for asking students to write and how to communicate them to your students.

Key Questions

• How do we provide students in our writing or writing-intensive courses with individualized attention and a community classroom experience outside of a traditional classroom?

• What are the learning opportunities for teachers and students at the intersection of technology, design, and the teaching of writing?

• How might we use technology and instructional design to further individual and collaborative activities to enact what we know about writing and the writing process in an online environment?

• What are our goals for specific kinds of writing that students do in our courses and how do we communicate those goals to our students?

Facilitators

Kate Tirabassi , Professor of English, Center for Research & Writing Director

Irene McGarrity , Associate Professor, Mason Library, Coordinator of Thinking and Writing

Mark Long , Professor of English, Director of the Integrative Studies Program

Chris Odato , Coordinator of Instructional Development

Jenny Darrow , Director of Digital Learning

To RSVP, please fill out this form by Wednesday, May 27th. If you have any questions about the workshop series, please feel free to email Kate Tirabassi at ktirabassi@keene.edu, or any of the facilitators listed above.

For this workshop series, future summer dates will be determined by faculty participants and facilitators.

This event is part of the Faculty Enrichment Events calendar.