http://bessie.englab.slcc.edu/~gardnecl Nothing to do with oceanography in the slightest Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:33:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Since I'm cycling off the Executive Board of the International Writing Centers Association this coming November, I've come to be a bit nostalgic about it. My involvement in the Executive Board first started back when Eric Hobson was President and he gave me the opportunity to engage in committee ... http://bessie.englab.slcc.edu/~gardnecl/?p=135 I've been prepping for our regular before-the-semester staff meeting/discussion and was thinking of using "You Fix it For me: A Lesson in Women's Work and Cultural Misunderstandings" by Kim Zabel in the latest Writing Lab Newsletter. In the article, Zabel describes a tutorial session in which she was ... http://bessie.englab.slcc.edu/~gardnecl/?p=126 Tomorrow a couple of tutors and I are headed down to Cedar City, Utah, to attend the Rocky Mountain Peer Tutoring Conference. This small conference is dedicated to peer tutoring and has been a boon to the struggling Rocky Mountain Regional. This years, as with years in the past, we ... http://bessie.englab.slcc.edu/~gardnecl/?p=112 Here's the call I mentioned yesterday: WAC/WID in the Community College--Call for Proposals I'm excited to be involved in this project! http://bessie.englab.slcc.edu/~gardnecl/?p=108 Michael Pemberton editor of Across the Disciplines has honored me in asking me to take on the role of guest editor for a special edition of the journal about Writing Across the Curriculum/Writing In the Disciplines in community colleges. I've got a pretty solid call for papers which I ... http://bessie.englab.slcc.edu/~gardnecl/?p=102 I have sadly neglected The Undersea World for far too long. I promise to update soon, as I have many updates and many ideas to post. I will say, however, that I'm honored now to serve as Secretary of TYCA. TYCA is a great organization and it will be ... http://bessie.englab.slcc.edu/~gardnecl/?p=100 I've been attending the annual TYCA-West at Clarkdale, Arizona campus of Yavapai College. Yesterday I attended various sessions on assessment of composition classes. The first one focussed on retention of students and the reasons why students drop. I shall be exploring the findings more later, I think. ... http://bessie.englab.slcc.edu/~gardnecl/?p=89 Jill Pennington, Neal Lerner, and Jason Mayland discuss writing center assessment on the University of Wisconsin-Madison podcast.  I'll be presenting with Jill, Neal, and Jason at the IWCA conference in 3 weeks. http://bessie.englab.slcc.edu/~gardnecl/?p=87 My colleagues Tiffany Rousculp, Melissa Helquist and I have been working on a new writing-center related course here at SLCC--English 1810:  Writing Center Theory and Practice.  We struggled for some time with the name of the course, given that we wanted to emphasize the notion of pedagogy and that tutoring ... http://bessie.englab.slcc.edu/~gardnecl/?p=84 Just wrote a long post over on PeerCentered about safety and the writing center and share governance: I've been reading Mike Mattison's new book Centered: A Year in the Life of a Writing Center Director (available from www.lulu.com) and came across the following passage: "My first year here [Boise State], we ... http://bessie.englab.slcc.edu/~gardnecl/?p=81