National Poetry Month Submissions sought

Mon, 2010-03-15 20:04 — bradley

To help us celebrate National Poetry Month, we'd like you to submit either an audio or video version of your original poetry to highlight some of the creative work done by faculty in our nation's two-year colleges. Each of TYCA's eight regions will have at least three poems posted to/published on this year's site. We'll be posting a new poem each day through the month of April in celebration of National Poetry Month at http://www.ncte.org/tyca/poetrymonth

To have your poem considered for posting/publication, please submit your poem to the reviewer for your region. Information is below. These reviewers will select the poems they find worthy of publication to be published on the TYCA site. Additionally, you must complete and fax a permissions form to TYCA or your poem cannot be published. The form, with submission information, is attached to this email.

Pacific Northwest Regional submissions should go to Jeffrey Klausman at jklausma@whatcom.ctc.edu

If you have any questions, please contact me at bradb@spokanefalls.edu and we'll help you out.

TYCA 2010 Conference

Sun, 2010-02-28 10:15 — Samm Erickson

"The Imagined __________"

October 8-9 2010
Whatcom Community College, Bellingham, Washington

Program Information | Registration Form (.pdf) | Keynote Speaker | Hotel and Travel Information

(More information coming soon)

Online Proposal Submission Form

Deadline: May 28, 2010

Recently, Western Washington University’s library hosted an art exhibit that caught our attention: “Books that Don’t (Yet) Exist.” Children’s book illustrators from around the world were asked to imagine their “dream book,” their book that did not yet exist. The exhibit displays the astounding results: seventy paintings and story summaries, stories still just beginning to be imagined.

We began to think about this concept as it might apply to our classrooms, programs, careers: How do our imagined __________ shape and affect our teaching, our scholarship, and our professional and material lives? We strive to incorporate new pedagogical theories based on our imagined “perfect” classroom, the classroom that “doesn’t (yet) exist.” We make changes to the way we respond to student writers based on our imagined ideal student-teacher relation. We read student work against our imagined ideal paper. We assess our classes and programs against imagined ideal classes and programs. We conduct research to fill gaps between the real and the imagined whole. How much else is driven by these imagined _________ that is just beyond or at the edges of our conscious awareness? How might we rethink these imagined _________? How might we reshape these imagined _________ to better our professional lives, our teaching, our students’ experiences?

This conference invites you to explore “The Imagined ____” in all its connotations and all its richness.

We encourage multi-media presentations, interactive sessions, as well as traditional conference presentations. We invite you to imagine the possibilities—inform, entertain and surprise us and yourselves!

See the Online Submission Form above.

Possible topics:
  • Student-teacher relations
  • Multi-media classrooms and writing
  • Retention, persistence, and success
  • Elearning
  • The “professionalization” of comp/rhet
  • Media culture, technoculture, and writing/reading
  • Ideas of writing programs
  • Classroom, program, and college-wide assessment
  • Visual media, rhetoric, and writing
  • Hypertext (fiction and poetry)
  • Labor and pedagogy
  • Graduate school preparation
  • Theories/theorists on writing and literature
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