Review by Mariana Grohowski Panelists Allison Harper Hitt, Syracuse University Patrick W. Berry, Syracuse University Lauren Marshall Bowen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign In this dynamic and inspiring panel, all three presenters (listed below) drew upon Cathy N. Davidson’s 2011 book Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn. Specifically, they took Davidson’s theme of “unlearning” outdated ways of doing things in order to embrace new ways of teaching and learning. All three presenters were careful to explain how their suggested new ways of doing things would allow teacher-researchers in…
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Review by Justine Neiderhiser Panelists Judith Fourzan-Rice, University of Texas at El Paso Crystal VanKooten, University of Michigan Anthony Atkins and Colleen Reilly, University of North Carolina Wilmington This roundtable led a discussion about the challenges and opportunities associated with assessing digital writing from both institutional and instructor perspectives. Judith Fourzan-Rice (University of Texas at El Paso) began the session from an institutional perspective, describing how programmatic changes at her university led to the implementation of many forms of digital writing. While she described shifts towards hybrid classrooms, e-books for teacher training, and a major overhaul of the assignment sequence…
Review by Virginia Kuhn Panelists Will Banks, East Carolina University Jonathan Alexander, University of California, Irvine Few people can pull off what Will Banks did on Saturday morning at C+W 2012: He was the only panelist physically present during his session, yet it actually took me until I was drafting this review for that simple fact to sink in: the session was smartly poly-vocal. Indeed, Will and Jonathan Alexander planned and conducted this featured session in a way that leveraged digital technologies to spark dialogue and creating event-ness, an approach that is way too often absent from conference sessions. Will…
Review by Barbi Smyser-Fauble Panelists Justin M. Jory, UC-Colorado Springs Lee Odell, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Cheryl Ball, Illinois State University Nathan Johnson, Purdue University This intriguing panel was kicked off by Justin M. Jory, whose presentation focused on how to “cultivate habits of mind” necessary to navigate the multiple layers of situated multimodal activities. Specifically, Jory’s focus was on how to utilize public rhetorical theory within a multimodal course that would enable students to explore the rhetorical vision of social action. These projects help students develop critical thinking and analysis skills, while instilling a sense of urgency and investment in…