How can faculty across disciplines encourage critical engagement with social media? In this presentation, Dr. Palermo will share a class activity where students author both bad-faith X posts and Community Notes about them. Community Notes are intended by X for … Read More »
This panel introduced approaches to developing Continuing Communication courses that engage the whole class in collaborative multimodal creation. It was cosponsored with the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence. Harshita Kamath (Associate Professor, MESAS) discussed the “Caste: Stories of Resilience … Read More »
A talk and workshop with Dr. Ashley Holmes Dr. Ashley Holmes is currently an Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning at Oregon State University. Previously she served as an Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing Across the … Read More »
Dr. April Baker-Bell is an award-winning author and teacher-scholar whose research “interrogates the intersections of Black Language and literacies, anti-Black racism, and antiracist pedagogies.” Her 2020 book Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy, has garnered much attention and … Read More »
Emory’s Fall 2022 entering class included approximately 1,424 first-year students who reported speaking 67 different languages (students could report up to five languages on their Common Application). This includes 444 Spanish speakers, 266 Mandarin speakers, 126 French speakers, 118 Korean … Read More »
How have faculty successfully transformed their syllabi to meet the Continuing Communication outcome across the humanities, social sciences, and STEM? How can low- and high-stakes multimodal and multigenre assignments and activities enhance student learning? This panel offered pedagogical strategies … Read More »
A Roundtable and Facilitated Discussion with Faculty, Students, and Community Organizers November 10, 2023 This online event, a collaboration between Writing Across Emory and the Emory Writing Center, focused on two linked themes: 1) positioning local grassroots movements for racial … Read More »
Our new general education requirements include the First-Year Seminar. Including oral discussion is not new to our FYSems. What might be new is thinking more intentionally about including oral discussion in a planned and scaffolded manner into the class while being aware of helping our students think about ethics about their communication. This workshop provides information to aid teachers in tweaking their seminars considering the new requirements. The Writing Across Emory (WAE) program is hosting Dr. John Duffy to share his experiences and knowledge gained from his time as Director of Notre Dame’s version of the first-year seminar. Dr. Duffy is presenting materials and ideas for incorporating oral activities into the class. The workshop includes interactive time to think through class planning.
Ethnographic projects can be a terrific way of getting students to engage critically with the social world in which they’re immersed. In this module Sean Dolan has shared some ideas, based on his experience teaching first-year writing courses, about how to cut such projects down to manageable size and tailor them to the aims of different courses. He’s also considered some of the practical aspects of structuring projects and provided two prompts from his own courses.
In this talk by Sarah Harsh, entitled Writing Across the Archives, we’ll consider how and why you should use Emory’s archives to bring writing into your classroom.