PeerCenteredPodcast

PeerCentered3.2-Nancy Grimm Keynote

Mon, 3 Nov 2008 16:05:40 -0700

In the final section of her keynote address, Nancy Grimm discussed the need for writing centers to consider students as “designers of social futures.”

PeerCentered3.1--NCPTW/IWCA-Conf-Preview

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:01:35 -0600

An interview with Claire Hughes, Weber State University Writing Center Coordinator and Rocky Mountain Writing Centers Association President about the upcoming NCPTW/IWCA Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.

PeerCentered 2.2: Writing Center Alumni

Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:11:01 -0700

Last fall the directors of the SLCC Student Writing Centers (Tiffany Rousculp and Clint Gardner), created a video consisting of interviews of former employees of either the Community (Rousculp) or Student Writing Centers (Gardner). The former employees, or writing center alumni, express the impact that working in a writing center had on their lives.

Ron Maxwell Award 2007

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:59:26 -0700

The Ron Maxwell Leadership Award is given to a professional in the organization who has contributed with distinction to undergraduate student development through promoting collaborative learning among peer tutors in writing.

Such leadership may be demonstrated in a variety of ways, including but not limited to:

* the individual's record in bringing peer tutors to present at the Conference
* service to the organization through hosting the Conference, serving as program chair, leading in the search for future sites, etc.
* aiding students in the assumption of increasing responsibility for their learning
* fostering leadership skills among peer tutors
* showing evidence of leadership in collaborative learning on one's home campus
* developing innovative peer tutoring programs in the home community
* in general, welcoming and meeting new challenges in leading a center guided by a collaborative learning philosophy

A small awards committee consisting of several recent hosts of the Conference, Jon Olson and Ron Maxwell, solicits nominations, reviews the candidates, and chooses an annual recipient. The Penn State Center for Excellence in Writing, directed by Jon Olson, serves as administrator of the award. Annual expenses of the award--a plaque and a modest cash prize for the recipient--are covered by Ron and Mary Maxwell through the endowment.

The recipient of the 2007 Maxwell Leadership award is Susan M. Dinitz of the University of Vermont.

PeerCentered 2.1: NCPTW 2007: Peer Tutoring and Personal Transformation

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:36:00 -0600

The second season of the PeerCentered podcast kicks off where we began: the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing. This episode is a recording of the conference presentation of the staff of the University of Maine Writing Center. Harvey Kail, Jesse Priest, Amber Tripp, Hannah Lauterback, Rosalie Sullivan, and Keir Peterson explore the significance of writing center work for peer writing tutors.