Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
CETL Teaching Workshop
Providing an opportunity for faculty, graduate students, and professional staff to gather with colleagues to listen, discuss, comment, interact and reflect on a variety of topics to enhance teaching and learning.
The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning offers the following teaching workshop:
Writing Across Technology: Developing Instructors to Teach 21st Century Composition
Brenda Brueggemann and Lisa Blansett, English/First-Year Writing
The First-Year Writing Program mini grant enhances the education of both graduate students in the English Department and the approximately 3300 first-year students who in enroll in one of the largest service courses at the University. To this end, we developed a new curriculum to train our graduate students in methods for multimodal composition. “Multimodality” in composition refers to working not just “on paper” but with visual, aural, and even spatial means to create texts. The compositions that first-year writers produce will always include traditional academic essays, but we are adding other commonly used media such as infographics and other forms of data visualization, podcasts, web content, and video productions. To bring the undergraduate FYW curriculum into the 21st century, we first have to bring our instructors there. The grant awarded for our Writing Across Technology (WAT) initiative helped defray the costs of sending two graduate students and a faculty member to the Digital Media and Composition institute, where they began researching and producing teaching materials for new instructors. We now have two faculty and three graduate students with the research background to strengthen pedagogy and the technical skills to train the incoming class of new instructors.
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
1:30 – 3:30 pm
Laurel Hall 302
Registration is required.
To register and view more workshops, please visit http://cetl.uconn.edu/seminars/.
For more information, contact: Stacey Valliere at stacey.valliere@uconn.edu