Autumn Quarter D-WRD Workshops & Sessions

All workshops and sessions are in SAC 300, from 10:00-11:00 a.m.; we have the room until 11:30, however, for people who want to stay around for additional hands-on and one-on-one support:

• Friday, September 5th: Assignment & Project Workshop: bring an assignment in any state of readiness for workshopping
• Friday, September 19th: Reading in Print and Reading on Screens — implications for literacy practices and comprehension 
  • Selber, E-Book Issues in Composition: A Partial Assessment and Perspective for Teachers
  • Jabr, The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens
  • Jabr, Why the Brain Prefers Paper
  • Baron, “How Do We Approach Texts?”
  • FYW Print & Digital Literacy Projects
  • Annotating texts

• Friday, October 3rd: Integrating multimodal composing projects with critical-thinking components: process descriptions; remediation; remix; Shipka’s “Multimodal Task-Based Framework”
• Friday, October 17th: Lisa Dush’s workshop on WeVideo 
  Lisa’s workshop can be another example in our series of not only learning new software, but how to learn software. WeVideo is timeline-based, for example, as is Audacity, GarageBand, iMovie, and other platforms that we’ve worked with. 
  • Lisa’s workshop will be hands on: creating a video from still digital images, so if you want to try it out during the workshop, bring some family photos in digital format — on a flash drive, for example, or email them to yourself ahead of time.
  • You can sign up for a free account ahead of time here
  • WeVideo overview
  • Lisa’s review of WeVideo
• Friday, October 31st: What is the relationship between Vincentian Values and Technology? 10-11 a.m. in SAC 300.
• • We’ll be joined by Fr. Udovic (thanks to Sarah Brown!), DePaul’s Vice President for Teaching and Learning Resources and Senior Executive for University Mission: http://www.depaul.edu/about/administration/Pages/udovic.aspx  
  • Background reading: Levy’s “No time to think: Reflections on information technology and contemplative scholarship” (Levy)
• Friday, November 7th: 2014 Fall Forum on Teaching and Learning
  10:00am – 2:00pm | Cortelyou Commons

Autumn & Winter Quarter Possibilities:

— Teaching portfolios? Focus on multimodal work?
— The Multimodal Essay
— Reviewing and practicing some models and methods that foster real, genuine, meaningful interaction and engagement in online courses, focusing on discussion forums and peer review work