2006 WPA Technology Institute

2006 Technology Institute

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga July 13, 2006

Sponsored by the Council of Writing Program Administrators in conjunction with its summer conference at the Chattanooga Choo Choo Hotel Chattanooga, Tennessee July 13-16, 2006

Join writing program administrators from around the country in this day-long institute just prior to the 2006 WPA Summer Conference. The focus of this year’s institute is multi-media/mixed-media composing in writing programs. Led by Darsie Bowden and Peter Vandenberg, participants will address such concerns as:

 Identifying technical support needs (instructional spaces, IT staff, etc.)  Developing mixed-media assignments  Assessing student projects  Publicizing/explaining the rationale for multi-media composing to the writing program's constituents

Darsie Bowden is Associate Professor of English and Director of Composition at DePaul University in Chicago. Professor Bowden earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Cinema and a PhD. in Rhetoric and Linguistics and Literature from the University of Southern California, and has published two books, The Mythology of Voice (Boynton/Cook 1999) and Writing for Film: the Basics of Screenwriting (forthcoming from Erlbaum).

Peter Vandenberg is Professor of English and Director of the MA in New Media Studies at DePaul University, where he teaches courses in composition theory and the rhetoric of design. Professor Vandenberg is co-editor of Relations, Locations, Positions (NCTE, 2006) and Keywords in Composition Studies (Boynton/Cook, 1996). His recent publications include essays in College English, JAC, Reflections, and Writing on the Edge. He has designed multimedia for Rhetoricians for Peace and The Rhetoric and Composition Sound Archives.

Together Bowden and Vandenberg operate SPAN, a production company focused on the composition of multimedia projects of interest to teachers and scholars. SPAN has produced a number of projects, including public service announcements and the film WPA: Past, Present and Future, which will have its premier screening at the 2006 WPA Conference in Chattanooga.

Cost: $125 by May 15 (includes lunch and breaks); $155 after May 15. Institute tuition includes all materials, plus lunch and breaks. Please register early, as enrollment is limited to 20 participants.

Register for the Technology Institute: http://wpacouncil.org/node/394

2006 WPA Assessment Institute

2006 Assessment Institute

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga July 13, 2006 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Sponsored by the Council of Writing Program Administrators in conjunction with its summer conference at the Chattanooga Choo Choo Hotel Chattanooga, Tennessee July 13-16, 2006

“Electronic Portfolios, Writing Classrooms, and College Programs: Practices, Theories, Issues, and Challenges” Leaders: Elizabeth Clark, Michael Day, and Kathleen Blake Yancey

Website for Institute Materials: http://www.engl.niu.edu/mday/wpa06.html

This day-long institute will address the various questions that arise for WPAs thinking about, planning, or implementing electronic portfolios. What are they? How are they similar to and different from print portfolios? What are the options for software, and how do they compare? How do eportfolios and the need to assess them affect faculty development needs and procedures? How are eports assessed? Once implemented, how can digital portfolios change an institution's understanding and expectations of assessment? What role might they play in a long-term assessment plan? Not least, what are likely to be the questions around electronic portfolios in the next five years?

J. Elizabeth Clark is Associate Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College--CUNY, where she is Co-Director of the Composition Program and Acting ePortfolio Project Director. She teaches basic writing, first year composition, and the cultural studies of medicine. Clark is managing editor of Radical Teacher and has presented and published about ePortfolios and the composition classroom. She is also part of the Carnegie Foundation/AAC & U Integrated Learning Project.

Michael Day is Associate Professor of English at Northern Illinois University, where he directs the first-year composition program and teaches composition pedagogy, technical writing, and writing for electronic media. Day is Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication Committee on Computers in Composition and Communication and former chair of the National Council of Teachers of English Assembly on Computers in English. He leads the Northern Illinois University’s team for the National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research, and has presented and published on topics ranging from technical communication to Internet communication and teaching writing online.

Kathleen Blake Yancey, Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English at Florida State University, has worked with electronic portfolios in various settings, from working with a small liberal arts college and with a K-12 school district and co-leading the National Coalition of Research on Electronic Portfolios to using them in her own classrooms with undergraduates, graduate students, and practicing teachers. She has written about eports in several venues, including in the AAHE edited collection Electronic Portfolios and the CCC article “Postmodernism, Palimpsest, and Portfolios: Theoretical Issues in the Representation of Student Work.” Her current projects include a volume tentatively titled E-Portfolios in the English Classroom.

Registration: $125 on or before May 15; $155 after May 15; includes lunch, breaks, and materials Register for the Assessment Institute: http://wpacouncil.org/node/394

For more information: visit http://wpacouncil.org/node/393

2006 WPA Conference Online Draft Program

A draft of the 2006 WPA Conference Program Outline and a draft of the Schedule for Concurrent Sessions as of June 21, 2006 are both available in searchable PDF attachments (see below).

Note to registered site users: If you are interested in additional information about a session, the "node" number provided in the schedule identifies the page where the session proposal may be viewed on the WPA website. You will need to log on to view the information.

2006 WPA Conference, Workshop, and Institutes Registrations

REGISTRATION 2006 WPA Summer Conference, Workshop, and Institutes Sponsored by the Council of Writing Program Administrators Hosted by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Held at the Chattanooga Choo Choo Hotel Chattanooga, Tennessee July 9-16, 2006

• Conference Registration: regular: early bird $200 (includes 6 meals) graduate student: early bird $100 (includes six meals) Saturday and Sunday only (secondary school personnel only): early bird $100
• Workshop Registration: early bird $630 (includes 10 meals) REGISTRATION FOR THE WORKSHOP IS CLOSED
• Assessment Institute Registration: early bird $125 (includes lunch) REGISTRATION FOR THE ASSESSMENT INSTITUTE IS CLOSED.
• Technology Institute Registration: early bird $125 (includes lunch) REGISTRATION FOR THE TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE IS CLOSED. If you wish to be placed on a waiting list contact Lauren Sewell Ingraham
• Workshop PLUS Assessment Institute Package Price: $675 REGISTRATION FOR THE WORKSHOP AND ASSESSMENT INSTITUTE IS CLOSED.
• Workshop PLUS Technology Institute Package Price: $675 REGISTRATION FOR THE WORKSHOP AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE IS CLOSED

Early bird deadline is May 15; add $30 to registration cost for each event after May 15. Full refund until June 15, and 50% refund June 16 and after.

Follow the relevant link(s) below to register online or print and mail this registration form in PDF format (also attached below).

2006 WPA Summer Workshop

WPA Workshop Summer 2006

Workshop Leaders: Lauren Fitzgerald is Associate Professor of English at Yeshiva University, where she directs the Yeshiva College Composition Program and Writing Center. Her work on writing programs and the teaching of writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Writing Lab Newsletter, The Writing Center Journal, and the edited collections Negotiating Religious Faith in the Composition Classroom, The Writing Center Director’s Resource Book (with Denise Stephenson), Judaic Perspectives on Literacy: Contexts for Rhetoric and Composition, and Sites of Plagiarism, Sites of Pedagogy (with T. Kenny Fountain).

Greg Glau is Director of Writing Programs at Arizona State University, where he has taught since 1994. Greg received his MA in Rhetoric and Composition from Northern Arizona University, and his PhD in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English from the University of Arizona. Before being appointed WPA in 2000, Greg directed ASU’s basic writing Stretch Program. With Linda Adler-Kassner of Eastern Michigan University, Greg is co-editor of the Bedford Bibliography of Basic Writing (2001; second edition 2005). Greg also is coauthor of Scenarios for Writing (Mayfield/McGraw-Hill, 2001) and is currently working on Writing for College, Writing for Life with Duane Roen and Barry Maid (McGraw-Hill, due to be published in 2007). Greg has published in WPA: Writing Program Administration, Rhetoric Review, English Journal, The Writing Instructor, IDEAS Plus, and Arizona English Bulletin. He’s coauthor of a chapter in The Writing Program Administrator as Theorist (Rose and Weiser; Heineman), and author of a chapter in The Writing Program Administrator's Resource: A Guide to Reflective Institutional Practice (Enos and Brown; Erlbaum). Greg regularly presents at CCCC and has presented at WPA, MLA, RMMLA, the Western States Composition Conference, NCTE, and others. He currently (with Duane Roen and Barry Maid) is a managing editor of WPA: Writing Program Administration.

The WPA Summer Workshop attracts participating writing program administrators from a variety of programs, including first-year composition, writing centers, WAC, and comprehensive writing programs. Participants come from a range of institutions--large, medium, and small; public and private; secular and religiously affiliated, both U.S. and international. The workshop is led each year by two experienced writing program administrators who have been nationally recognized for their work. Participants spend three days discussing and writing about WPA roles and responsibilities, program design, curriculum development and trends, assessment, staffing and professional development, and more.

Workshop Schedule: July 9 - 12, 2006 Workshop participants gather Sunday afternoon, July 9, and meet all day every day through Wednesday evening, July 12. Workshop leaders Lauren Fitzgerald (Yeshiva University) and Greg Glau (Arizona State University) will also be available for one-to-one consultations in the evenings and (for workshop participants not attending an institute) on Thursday morning.

Costs: Workshop Registration: early bird $630 (includes workshop materials and 10 meals) Workshop PLUS Institute (Technology Inst. or Assessment Inst.)Package Price: $675 Early bird deadline is May 15; add $30 to registration cost for each event after May 15.

Register for workshop or workshop/institute package: REGISTRATION FOR THE WORKSHOP IS CLOSED http://wpacouncil.org/node/394

Travel to and around Chattanooga

By Air

The Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport (www.chattairport.com) is served by five major airlines or their subsidiaries: Delta, Northwest, US Air, American, and Continental. Direct flights are available between Chattanooga and the following eight cities:

 Atlanta (via Delta)  Cincinnati (via Delta)  Charlotte, NC (via US Air)  Washington DC (via US Air)  Chicago (via American Eagle)  Dallas/Ft. Worth (via American Eagle)  Memphis (via Northwest)  Houston (via Continental)

The Choo Choo Hotel and Convention Center operates a complimentary shuttle between the Chattanooga airport and the hotel.

Airports in nearby Atlanta or Nashville offer even more options for getting to the area, particularly if you are looking to fly one of the discount airlines such as Southwest or AirTran. Shuttle service is available between these airports and Chattanooga via Chattanooga Coach (www.chattanoogacoach.com) or Groome Transportation (www.groomechattanooga.com).

By Car

Chattanooga sits at the intersection of Interstates 24 and 75 near the Alabama-Georgia border. Participants arriving by car enjoy free parking at the Choo Choo Hotel and Convention Center.

By Train

Ironically, no passenger train service is available to Chattanooga. But while you’re here check out the Incline Railway—the steepest passenger railway in the world—to the top of Lookout Mountain.

Getting Around Chattanooga

A free electric shuttle travels throughout downtown Chattanooga from 6:00 am until 7:30 pm on weekdays and 9:00 am until 7:30 pm on weekends. The Choo Choo sits at the southern end of the shuttle route, and the Tennessee Riverfront area marks the route’s northernmost point (a 1.2 mile span of shops, restaurants, office buildings, and parks). CARTA buses (Chattanooga’s public transportation system) have routes throughout Chattanooga, including one that passes in front of the Choo Choo and stops at the Incline Railway station at the base of Lookout Mountain (2.5 miles from the Choo Choo). For more ambitious trips or late night outings, taxi service is also available. If you want to explore more of Chattanooga on your own, particularly attractions beyond the city limits, renting a car may be the best option. Your conference information packet will include detailed information about traveling in and around Chattanooga.

WPA 2006 Conference Program Booklet Draft

A copy of the near-final draft of the 2006 WPA Conference Program booklet is available in PDF, attached below.

Call for Proposals: WPA 2006 Summer Conference

Theme: Keeping on Track: Looking Back, Looking Forward, Looking Out for New Opportunities

July 13-16
Chattanooga Choo Choo Convention Center
Chattanooga , Tennessee

Submit a proposal for an individual presentation, poster session, panel, roundtable, or forum online using our Presenter Proposal Form. You need to be an authenticated site user and logged in order to submit a proposal. Your WPA membership will need to be current by the time of the conference. Register now if you need an account or use the log-in form to the right.

TRAIN YOURSELF FOR EXCITEMENT as you make plans for participating in the 2006 WPA Conference at the Chattanooga Choo Choo Convention Center next July! Our theme, “Keeping on Track: Looking Back, Looking Forward, and Looking Out for New Opportunities,” acknowledges both the famous Chattanooga Choo Choo and nearby Lookout Mountain, but it also conveys the our thematic focus on the importance of continual reflection, planning, and inquiry to maintaining direction and momentum for the writing programs we lead.

We invite proposals for sessions addressing the conference theme in such areas as the following:

• histories of writing programs and writing program administration
• contributions of WPA experience to development as scholars and administrators
• means and uses of reflection in writing program administration
• strategies, processes, and outcomes of planning for WPAs and writing programs
• setting and measuring progress toward writing program goals
• extending the influence of our writing programs
• making the connections between high school and college writing
• representing writing programs to our publics
• redesigning writing programs with new media and multi-literacies
• other topics of interest to writing program administrators

We welcome a variety of session formats, including (1) full panels involving several speakers addressing related topics, (2) individual presentations to be grouped together by the program committee, and (3) roundtables and forums on a single topic. Proposals for innovative presentation formats are invited as well. We invite attendees to prepare poster presentations or other exhibits of their programs' special initiatives, research projects, or signature areas .

The conference will begin Thursday evening, July 13, and continue through Sunday morning, July 16. In addition to plenary speakers and concurrent panel sessions, the program will include professional development mini-workshops on such topics as Documenting a Writing Program, Preparing an Administrative Portfolio/WPA Promotion Case, and Planning for Publishing Program Research. Ask your department chair or dean for funding to attend these mini-workshops.

Proposals may be submitted at http://www.wpacouncil.org/node/add/flexinode-1 until February 1, 2006. Proposals submitted after this date will be reviewed only if space remains on the program.

For detailed up-to-date information about the conference, visit the conference website at http://wpacouncil.org

Conference Chair: Shirley Rose, President, Council of Writing Program Administrators
Local Chairs: Lauren Ingraham, Jennifer Beech, and James Inman

Planning Information

2006 Summer Workshop and Conference of the Council of Writing Program Administrators

Conference : Official activities begin Thursday evening, July 13, at 5:30 PM with a welcome reception/orientation and conclude Sunday, July 16, at 10:00 AM after the Town Hall Meeting. Plenary Speakers include Jacqueline Jones Royster, Ohio State University, on Thursday evening; Chris Anson, Past President of CWPA, North Carolina State University, on Friday; and Pam Childers, former President of the National Writing Center Association, The McCallie School in Chattanooga, on Saturday.

Workshop : Workshop participants gather Sunday afternoon, July 9, and meet all day every day through Wednesday evening, July 12. Workshop leaders Lauren Fitzgerald (Yeshiva University) and Greg Glau (Arizona State University) will also be available for one-to-one consultations in the evenings and (for workshop participants not attending an institute) on Thursday morning. For more information about the workshop, go to http://wpacouncil.org/node/263

Assessment Institute and Technology Institute : These day-long institutes will be held on Thursday, July 13, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM. Lunch included. If institutes are cancelled due to insufficient enrollment, registration fees will be refunded.

Costs (for planning purposes only—not final as of November, 2005):

• Housing at Choo Choo Holiday Inn: $118/per single or double room/per night, plus tax
• Conference Registration (estimate): early bird $200 (includes 6 meals)
• Workshop Registration (estimate): early bird $630 (includes 10 meals)
• Assessment or Technology Institute Registration (estimate): early bird $125 (includes lunch)
• Workshop PLUS Institute Package Price (estimate) : $675

Early bird deadline is May 15; add $30 to registration cost for each event after May 15.

For information about the Chattanooga Choo Choo Holiday Inn and convention Center, go to http://www.choochoo.com/ Members of underrepresented minorities are invited to apply for grants to support their attendance at the WPA Summer Workshop. To find out more about the WPA Fund for the Support of Minority Writing Program Administrators, go to http://wpacouncil.org/node/224.