Author: Christopher Dean

Overview This presentation looked at Covid-19 teaching and its effects on teachers and students, with some clear take-aways about what Covid-19 teaching meant and continues to mean as we “return to normal” (whatever that might be). Hybrid Strategies for Trauma-Informed Online Writing Instruction: A Course Design Kara Mae Brown described her process of reworking an upper division, online writing class at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), which focused on writing web content, to meet the needs of students who were, and are, experiencing trauma. After a quickly defining trauma-informed teaching and learning, Brown shared “Six Guiding Principles to…

Overview This panel deftly blended a research study on labor-based contract grading in OWI and hybrid courses, a smart and engaging presentation about assessment broadly construed, and a visually spectacular presentation about how to use data visualization tools for writing placement. It was, in short, one of the best presentations I’ve seen at a conference in many years. Conceptualizations of Time and Labor in Contract-Assessed Online Writing Courses Sydney Sullivan, Mikenna Sims, and Jennifer Burke Reifman (all instructors and PhD students from UC Davis) presented on work that looked at how writing teachers thought about and experienced contract grading (particularly…