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SUMMARY:Strategies for Online WAC Faculty Development
DESCRIPTION:This virtual workshop was offered on April 17th\, 2020 by the AWAC Mentoring Committee and the CCCC WAC Standing Group and was led by Christopher Basgier (Auburn University)\, Amy Cicchino (Auburn University)\, and Susanmarie Harrington (University of Vermont). \nMany WAC administrators are moving faculty development experiences online during the COVID-19 pandemic. This virtual workshop focused on strategies for supporting faculty remotely\, with a particular emphasis on extended faculty development experiences such as WAC workshop series. \nTopics of discussion included: \n\nManaging time in online development planning\nDesigning synchronous and asynchronous interactions\nCreating accessible experiences that can appeal to a range of instructors\nPromoting meaningful interactions with and among faculty\n\nFacilitators will each touch on these topics\, but we hope participants will share their ideas and strategies as well. In addition\, the AWAC Mentoring Committee will help organize participants into peer groups following the workshop so they can continue sharing ideas and getting feedback on their work. \nPresenter Bios \nChristopher Basgier is Acting Director of University Writing at Auburn University. He works on a number of different programs for University Writing\, which includes a comprehensive WAC/WID faculty development arm\, a Writing Center\, and an ePortfolio Project\, which is Auburn’s Quality Enhancement Project for SACS accreditation. He consults with individual faculty and departments on writing and high impact practices in courses and curricula; supervises professional development for writing center staff; and delivers workshops on a range of different topics. His research currently involves the methodological challenges in identifying threshold concepts for the teaching of writing in the disciplines. \nAmy Cicchino is Associate Director of University Writing at Auburn University. At Auburn\, she supports faculty development within the WAC program\, leads the Graduate Writing Partners program\, facilitates workshops related to writing and writing instruction\, and is currently expanding asynchronous online resources for writing across the curriculum. Her research takes up writing program administration\, multimodal online instruction\, and teacher professionalization. She is a member of the AWAC Mentoring Committee\, an Executive Board At-Large member of the Global Society for Online Literacy Educators (GSOLE)\, and is co-leading a task force on digital ethics and ePortfolios for the Association for Authentic\, Experimental\, Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL). \nSusanmarie Harrington is Director of Writing in the Disciplines at the University of Vermont. In addition to coordinating writing-related faculty development for faculty across campus\, she has been involved in UVM’s general education efforts and also coordinates UVM Communicates\, an initiative focused on training students and faculty to communicate their expertise to broader audiences. She works with individual faculty\, cohorts and departments on writing pedagogies in courses and disciplines\, leads workshops on course design\, assessment\, peer review\, and other topics. Her current research explores faculty development at the intersections of writing and information literacy. \nThis content is for  members only.Join NowAlready a member? Log in here
URL:https://wacassociation.org/event/strategies-for-online-wac-faculty-development/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Workshop
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SUMMARY:Closing the Assessment Loop: WAC Assessment Options and Strategies
DESCRIPTION:The AWAC Mentoring Committee is offering its second virtual workshop on WAC program development and leadership\, “Closing the Assessment Loop: WAC Assessment Options and Strategies\,” on Friday\, February 21st from 1:00-2:00 U.S. EST on Zoom. \nThis virtual workshop offers descriptions of several WAC assessment practices that have been used successfully by two well-established WAC programs to “close the loop” for writing assessment. The presenters will speak for 30 minutes and leave 30 minutes for discussions and questions. Over the course of the discussion\, other assessment models will be identified and pros and cons of each introduced. \nTerry Myers Zawacki\, emerita director of the George Mason University WAC program and currently a program consultant\, and Tom Polk\, interim WAC program director\, will describe an ecological approach to both program and discipline-based writing assessment. Terry will describe the department-embedded writing assessment and other processes she developed in collaboration with the associate provost of institutional effectiveness with the goal of proving and improving WAC program effectiveness around faculty teaching-with-writing practices and students’ writing competence. Tom will describe surveys and interviews designed to understand faculty and student perceptions of writing instruction in designated WI courses. He and Terry will then explain current efforts to identify and synthesize the extensive existing institutional data related to student writing across the curriculum for the purpose of sustaining and re-visioning one of the first WAC programs in the country. \nJeff Galin\, founding director of FAU’s WAC program\, writing center\, and community writing center\, will briefly describe three sets of assessment practices: 1) Despite admonitions from some scholars in the field\, there are ways to use common rubrics across disciplines for evaluating certain types of academic writing that provide useful and effective strategies for departments to establish benchmarks across traits\, identify specific traits to target in a given year\, and establish curricular interventions to foster improvement in both teaching and student writing. 2) Assessment within a WEC pilot program provides much more fine-grained assessment practices for participating departments. 3) WAC program self-assessment using sustainability indicators enables WAC programs to track their program’s long-term viability to anticipate program shifts and weaknesses. \nThis content is for  members only.Join NowAlready a member? Log in here
URL:https://wacassociation.org/event/closing-the-assessment-loop-wac-assessment-options-and-strategies/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191116
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SUMMARY:Filling Your WAC Backpack: Starting Your WAC Program Prepared
DESCRIPTION:This virtual workshop was offered on November 15\, 2019\, by the AWAC Mentoring Committee and was led by AWAC Members Chris Basgier (Auburn University)\, Michelle Cox (Cornell University)\, and Joan Mullin (University of North Carolina Charlotte). \nThis online workshop was designed for anyone who is starting\, or thinking of starting\, a WAC program at their institution. The panelists began with a discussion of the relationships and distinctions among WAC pedagogy\, WAC initiatives\, and WAC programs. They then provided brief overviews of the WAC programs they’ve led\, after which they described the essential contents of a “WAC Backpack”: the characteristics and habits new WAC administrators need when initiating conversations about WAC and building sustainable programs. Throughout and at the end\, the panelists responded to questions posed by participants about challenges of developing WAC programs in specific contexts. The video (see link below) includes the chat\, in which participants crowdsourced responses to questions about favorite resources to share with disciplinary faculty\, approaches to dealing with challenges\, and the moments of joy that make WAC program leadership worthwhile. \nThis content is for  members only.Join NowAlready a member? Log in here
URL:https://wacassociation.org/event/2504/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Workshop
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SUMMARY:Moving WAC to the Web: Using GSOLE OLI  to Create Resources for Online Writing Across Disciplines
DESCRIPTION:This virtual workshop was offered on October 15\, 2019 by the AWAC Mentoring Committee in collaboration with the Global Society of Online Literacy Educators (GSOLE) and was led by AWAC Mentoring Committee members Amy Cicchino (Auburn University) and Lindsay Clark (Sam Houston State University) and by Traci Austin (Sam Houston State University). \nThis workshop explored how GSOLE’s “Online Literacy Instruction Principles and Tenets” can frame online literacy instruction across disciplinary contexts. By focusing especially on the first principle—accessibility—the webinar leaders engaged administrators and instructors in a process of linking principle to practice. More specifically\, the webinar leaders described their own experiences with developing accessible online course materials\, which involved using Blackboard Ally. Then\, participants were invited to share their experiences and to collaboratively respond to a course design scenario. This webinar thus responded to a gap between national documents and local practice and focuses on how to develop local practices to support the first principle\, accessibility.
URL:https://wacassociation.org/event/wacc-pedagogy-series-moving-wac-to-the-web-using-gsoles-oli-principles-to-creating-accessible-resources-for-online-writing-across-the-disciplines/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190623
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190627
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SUMMARY:2019 WAC Summer Institute
DESCRIPTION:The WAC Summer Institute\, a three-day event\, will be held for the first time from June 23 to June 26\, 2019\, at the University of Denver\, for 30 participants. \nPurpose\nThe Institute’s primary goal will be to assist new and prospective leaders of WAC/WID or similar initiatives in the US and internationally at planning and developing their programs. The Institute will also support experienced directors who face new challenges or wish to expand\, update\, or revitalize their programs. \nTheme\nThe Institute’s guiding theme will be building sustainable\, high-impact WAC programs. The agenda will include workshops on understanding\, planning\, developing\, and leading programs as well as small group meetings that provide mentoring and networking opportunities. Participants will also have opportunities to consult individually with Institute leaders. The specific issues to be addressed in the workshops and small group meetings will be based on participants’ interests and goals for attending as described on the application form. There will also be ample unscheduled time for participants to share their situations and aspirations informally. \nRegistration\nRegistration opens November 5th at 1:00 pm EST. \nIf you missed out registering for the Institute\, please add your name to the waiting list. If slots open\, you will be contacted according to the order on the list. \nCosts\nThe $500 registration fee includes a Sunday evening reception; breakfast\, lunch\, and snack breaks on Monday\, Tuesday\, and Wednesday; and an institute dinner on Monday. Optional social events will be offered at an additional cost. \nRooms are available in the residence halls at the cost of $167.89 plus 14.75% tax (this price covers all three nights). For those wishing to stay in a hotel or other accommodations\, light rail connects campus and downtown. \nRegistration Waiting List\nIf you are unable to register because all slots are filled\, please sign up for the waiting list; there is no charge for doing so. If slots open\, you will be contacted according to the order on the list. \nTo receive a full refund\, should you need to cancel your reservation\, you must contact us no later than May 15th. If you must cancel after that date\, we will not be able to offer a refund. \nWho Should Attend\nWe have designed the Institute primarily to help new and prospective leaders of WAC/WID and similar initiatives in the US and internationally plan\, develop\, and assess their programs. The Institute is also designed to support experienced program directors who face new challenges or wish to update\, expand\, or revitalize their current programs. \nWhat Participants Will Gain\nThe Institute’s guiding theme is building sustainable\, high-impact WAC programs. The agenda will include interactive workshops\, as well as small group sessions that address issues specific to certain schools. \nMindful that in order to flourish each WAC program must fit comfortably in its own institutional context\, we will help each participant develop ways to adapt general principals and strategies to the participant’s own campus. \nParticipants will be able to consult individually with Institute leaders and share their situations and aspirations with one another in formal and informal settings. All should expect to leave with clear goals and practical strategies for building or strengthening their own programs. \nScholarships\nWe are able to offer one graduate student scholarship. The graduate organization WAC-GO will handle the application details and will select the recipient. More information on the application process and criteria will be forthcoming on this site. \nQuestions? Suggestions?\nWe invite questions and suggestions. Please feel welcome to contact co-chairs Jeff Galin (JGALIN@fau.edu) or Chris Anson (chris_anson@ncsu.edu) or any member of the planning group \nPaul Anderson anderspv@miamioh.edu\nVicki Tolar Burton vicki.tolarburton@oregonstate.edu\nRichard Colby (local chair) richard.colby@du.edu\nDoug Hesse (local chair) douglas.hesse@du.edu\nMike Palmquist mike.palmquist@colostate.edu\nTeresa Redd tredd@howard.edu\nAlisa Russell a.russell@ku.edu\nTerry Myers Zawacki tzawacki@gmu.edu
URL:https://wacassociation.org/event/2019-wac-summer-institute/
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