some PNWCA conference photos

 
On the way there… Chanel, Josh, Jeremy, and Laura (Andrea driving, Dodie photographing).
Josh and Jeremy watching GalaxyQuest on Andrea’s portable DVD player.
Finally in Bellingham… Josh, Laura, and Andrea: tired but ready for the preconference session.
Dodie and Carolyn… also tired but ready.
The next day… a beautiful day for a conference.
Before the plenary session… Kim, Dodie, [...]

A Playful Dictionary of Assignment Terms, 1st ed.

This is one of the handouts we gave to our participants at the PNWCA conference this past weekend. It was a kind of a “get your creative juices flowing” kind of thing we hoped our participants would read as they were waiting for the formal session to begin. Jeremy said he heard many people laughing [...]

DISing and CUSSing: Talking About Assignment Terms with Student Writers (our PNWCA conference proposal abstract)

Here’s the brief description and the abstract I submitted for our PNWCA Conference session (Bellingham, WA, April 28, 2007). We got our invitation to facilitate this session on Tuesday, and I’m excited about it. It’s not my first presentation (did one at the first annual PNWCA conference in Centralia in 2005), but this is the [...]

What is a summary? –the opposite of wintry?

We (the writing center staff) are working on — well, will soon start working on — a proposal for the PNWCA conference in Bellingham this April.  We’re going to do something on ways to explain words like “analyze,” “compare and contrast,” “summarize,” and “thesis” more visually, dramatically, or even auditorily to students who aren’t understanding [...]