TYCA West: My Colleagues Doin Cool Stuff
TYCA-West Conference October 12-13, 2007 Building Bridges of Lifelong Learners Multimedia, Multilevel Magic: An Extraordinary Approach to Teaching the Research Paper Robin Ozz, Phoenix College Patricia Zaccardo, Phoenix College Nancy Matte, Phoenix College Dawn Wilson, Phoenix College I was unable to attend my Maricopa Colleague’s panel. However, I had a lovely chat with them over breakfast. …
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| November 18 2007 | CommentsPosted in
TYCA West: Keynote
TYCA-West Conference October 12-13, 2007 Building Bridges of Lifelong Learners Keynote: Robert M. Sherfield, College of Southern Neveda Building Bridges of Lifelong Learners October 12, 2007 The original keynote speaker, Howard Tinberg, was unable to attend :-( Education is tools to help build a bridge to get to the rest of your life. As teachers we help students understand what they need for their own survival; bridge building is to help them understand …
...Continued | November 18 2007 | CommentsPosted in TYCA-West
CIT: Jetsons Workshop
League for Innovation in the Community College 2007 Conference on Information Technology 11 May 2007 Jetson’s Workshop By yours truly… Whooo hooo…5 technologies (Social Bookmarking, Blogs, RSS, Wikis & Personal Portals), three hours, and the occasional technological glitch. I had a lovely group of participants from across the North American Continent. I did forget to test the video to make sure we have sound (oops) and I’ve realized that the Power Point presentation is …
...Continued | November 12 2007 | CommentsPosted in League's CIT
CIT: Milliron’s Keynote
League for Innovation in the Community College 2007 Conference on Information Technology 11 May 2007 Mark David Milliron Blog: catalyticconversations.blogspot.com President & CEO, Catalyze Learning International side note: attended Mesa CC (hoooh ha!)! My discussion of this presentation will start at the end! After I had already closed up my laptop preparing to grab my partner and run to dinner, the presenter flashed his last slide with the following information (in the following …
...Continued | November 12 2007 | CommentsPosted in League's CIT
Gabcast to the Rescue?
This past weekend Devon and I presented about Google Apps at the Arizona English Teachers’ Association. The first sign that we were the technogeeks at the conference was that we were happily typing away during the keynote address. I’m sure people were irritated by us; however, we were productive. I got my blog about the keynote up by the end of the keynote itself. And by the time we walked over to the building where we were presenting, we had figured out a way …
...Continued | October 10 2007 | CommentsPosted in AETA
Keynote Beverly Ann Chin
Arizona English Teachers Association Conference Saturday October 6, 2007 Keynote: Beverly Ann Chin “Sentence Combining: The Bridge Between Written Sentence Fluency and Improving Reading” Chin demonstrates how we tell students to draft by just getting ideas down on the page, even if it sounds like you speak. But we know that speaking is not coherent, it’s in fragments and run-ons. Chin demonstrated how doing oral sentence combing (working from lists of super-short sentences) that helps demonstrate a variety of sentences, style, tone, …
...Continued | October 06 2007 | CommentsPosted in AETA
Eating and Ethics
I hope my colleague Richard doesn’t read this entry; he would be very angry! Susan and I have giggled about how we barely have to spend any money on food at CCCCs. Between the various breakfasts we pay to attend (WPA, see later post & TYCA, oops, slept in this year) and the Textbook Company parties in the evenings, meals are pretty covered. So this year was the typical line up, with conflicting parties so that you can’t possibly attend them all. But I made it to Bedford/St. Martin’s party at …
...Continued | July 27 2007 | CommentsPosted in
C&W 2007: A Usable Workshop on Usability
My colleague Susan Miller-Cochran (she’s trying to get going with this blogging thing…so give her some support!) and I are about to wrap a co-edited collection on the connections between Rhetoric and Usability, Rhetorically Rethinking Usability. Two of our good friends/colleagues who submitted a co-authored piece for the collection, Jason Swartz (check out that new baby) and Shaun Slattery, decided we should propose to do a workshop on usability in the composition classroom at the 2007 Computers & Writing Conference. Those fools reading the proposals excepted it …
...Continued | June 27 2007 | CommentsPosted in C&W
C&W 2007: The Forest vs. the Trees
While at the 2007 Computers and Writing Conference in Detroit—yes, I’m playing catch-up blogging—I attended a panel with Michelle Sidler discussing the co-editing of Bedford St. Martin’s professional development book Computers in the Composition Classroom: A Critical Sourcebook. Although I may have disagreed with some of her perspective on science fiction as it relates to the understanding of bio-ethics (our discussion at lunch), I was happy with her “forest before the trees” approach to the edited collection. I also enjoyed her discussing the difficulty of doing an edited …
...Continued | June 27 2007 | CommentsPosted in C&W
C&W 2007: Power of Adjectivals
One of the nights that we were running around Detroit a colleague kept telling us stories about her former boyfriends. There was the boyfriend with the short arms. The boyfriend during graduate school. The boyfriend with the irritating mother who wanted to teach her to cook. ETC… And of course, the focus here is on the storytelling. We all got good laughs about these former boyfriend stories and what are colleague learned about herself in the process. Finally, at the end of the night, our colleague made a slip. She mentioned …
...Continued | June 04 2007 | CommentsPosted in C&W