New title from the WAC Clearinghouse offers ideas for using AI in the writing classroom. https://wac.colostate.edu/repository/collections/textgened/
This is a really interesting podcast about learning from mistakes with a lot of helpful insights for teaching Comp I and II, particularly for those trying to understand why some students fail to submit work or simply stop attending: https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/learning-from-your-mistakes/ %
There’s been a lot of buzz about ChatGPT. Here’s a link to some resources so we can start to educate ourselves about AI text generators and what they might mean for teaching comp! https://wac.colostate.edu/repository/collections/ai-text-generators-and-teaching-writing-starting-points-for-inquiry/
Kingsborough Professors Emily Schnee and Gregory Bruno will share insights from their recent articles, both of which consider how circumstances beyond the writing classroom impact students’ experiences. Gregory’s work, which appeared in JBW, explores how faculty understand and navigate college policies that affect their students’ lives. Emily’s forthcoming article draws […]
Wednesday, March 23rd, 3pm – 4:15pm| Race in the Writing Classroom Professor Sophie Bell, of St. John’s University, will share ideas about using race as a topic in writing classrooms, drawing upon her book, Mapping Racial Literacies, College Students Write About Race and Segregation. Participants will engage in a classroom […]
This looks great! Tisha and Paule will be doing a related presentation (along with Cheryl Smith) on Friday, November 5th at 1 pm. The focus of this later workshop will be on selecting reading in Composition courses. Come to one or both!
Please join us on Friday, November 5th, at 1 pm, for a discussion led Professors Cheryl Smith and Tisha Ulmer (with former student Paule Lafortune) on the question of what texts to assign in composition classes. Check the Comp Faculty Lounge Blackboard site and your KCC email for Zoom meeting […]
This looks great! Please register in advance to attend. Open to NCTE members. https://ncte.org/college/college-section-webinar-series/
If you’re looking to refresh your teaching for this spring, consider registering for the Teaching & Learning Center’s Mid-Winter Institute. There are some VERY cool sessions being offered. Hope to see you there! 2021 Mid-Winter Institute Schedule
The CCCC Special Committee on Composing a Statement on Anti-Black Racism and Black Linguistic Justice has just released its powerful statement on the C’s site. Take a look. It is no coincidence the that CRC has been immersed in the project of learning about “equity” in […]
TYCA — chaired by our own Cheryl Smith! — has just announced an awesome series of webinars entitled Teaching in a Time of Change. The sessions look awesome, and at least two of them overlap directly with CRC work last year and this coming year. I […]
Follow this link to join the listserv for the Two-Year College Association (TYCA), a branch of the larger National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).
Please follow this link to a video recording of Asao Inoue’s address to the CCCC March 2019 in Pittsburgh, PA. As many of you know, this address triggered an impassioned response within the field of Comp/Rhet, on the WPA-L listserv, and even made it into Inside Higher Education. In Fall […]
