Can you Digg it? at GWCC

Doing a one hour (that turned into 1.5 hour) workshop Can You Digg It? workshop GateWay Community College (GWCC) kicked off the various incarnations of the Can You Digg It? Spring 2010 series. I was excited about the GWCC event because it would give me the opportunity to practice condensing what already wouldn’t fit in 3.5 hours into 90 minutes (which I would be doing twice again for my publisher’s English Composition Events in San Antonio and Phoenix).

I love presenting at GWCC; first, they have a lot of occupational programs, so I get to think about how/why these technologies, pedagogies, and all-around crazy ideas work in classes like nursing and radiation.  My favorite moment of the event was when I asked that if a student produced a robust annotated bibliography like this, or this, do they really need to take the next step and write up the paper? John’s (the director of GWCC’s Center for Teaching & Learning) mouth fell open! 

I’m not talking to only English/Composition faculty here! I’m suggesting that folks in other disciplines sincerely think about what are the learning objectives of a "large" or research project and do they require the final step of writing a paper? As you can see from the first example, this student produced A LOT of "writing" without producing a "paper."

Second, I like visiting Laura!  I am grateful to Laura, GWCC’s instructional technologist, for giving me some feedback before I took the short-term show on the road! She also LiveBlogged the event.

February 25 2010 | Posted in Workshops