Winter '24 Workshops
Each workshop is offered twice—once in person with refreshments, and once online through zoom. The online workshops will NOT be recorded.
Designing Authentic Writing Assignments
Well-designed and scaffolded writing assignments provide a strong opportunity to support and assess student learning. This workshop identifies principles of effective writing assignment design, includes sample assignments for discussion, and provides participants opportunities to draft, revise, and discuss course-specific writing prompts.
Facilitated by Matthew Luskey, Coordinator, WAC+WID
In-person Workshop: Wednesday, January 17, 2-3:30pm, Science Library 193
Online Workshop: Thursday, January 18, 3:00-4:30pm (A Zoom link will be emailed to registered attendees.)
Designing Engaging Multimodal Assignments
Effective multimodal composition (e.g. websites, ePortfolios, podcasts, digital stories, maps, infographics, video essays, social media, blogs, etc.) can help students develop rhetorical skills necessary to engage disciplinary audiences as well as engage more deeply with the content of their composition. Bring a writing assignment prompt that you would like to transform into a multimodal composition assignment. Together, we will design multimodal composition assignments that are engaging for the writer and their audience, transformative pedagogical opportunities, and invite “consequential publicness” for relevant audiences and communities.
Facilitated by Leah Senatro, CWCC GSR
In-person Workshop: Thursday, February 1, 2-3:30pm, Science Library 193
Online Workshop: Friday, February 2, 10:00-11:30am (A Zoom link will be emailed to registered attendees.)
Writing to Learn Activities
Writing-to-learn (WTL) activities, sometimes referred to as “low stakes” writing, can quickly engage students and often require minimal feedback from instructors. These brief, in-class or online writing activities provide students with opportunities to develop conceptual knowledge and to practice core writing abilities such as summary, synthesis, analysis, and data visualization. In this workshop, we will review examples of WTL activities from a variety of disciplinary contexts, identify timely places to integrate WTL into courses, and design at least one WTL activity.
Facilitated by Matthew Luskey, Coordinator, WAC+WID
In-person Workshop: Tuesday, February 13, 2-3:30pm, Science Library 193
Online Workshop: Wednesday, February 14, 9:00-10:30am (A Zoom link will be emailed to registered attendees.)
Equitable Approaches to Grading Student Writing
For many instructors, grading student writing is a challenging aspect of teaching. While we want to support and motivate student writers, we also want to articulate where student work does and does not meet expectations laid out in assignments. In this workshop, we will discuss a variety of approaches for evaluating student writing and communicating those evaluations in ways that support and encourage students’ ongoing learning.
Facilitated by Matthew Luskey, Coordinator, WAC+WID
In-person Workshop: Thursday, February 29, 2:00-3:30pm, Science Library 193
Online Workshop: Friday, March 1, 10:00-11:30am (A Zoom link will be emailed to registered attendees.)
