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Friday Afternoon
2:30 – 5:00
Registration
Exhibitor Tables
Deccio (outside Parker Room)

3:15 – 4:15
WISE: Winning Ideas Speed Exchange—
Best classroom practices in a “speed dating” format
Parker Room

4:30 – 5:30
“Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Teach: Strategies for Responding to Students in Trouble” (Marilyn Valentino, Lorain County CC, OH) C 159

“Responding to Hate on Campus” (Gail Pearlman, Yakima Valley CC, Grandview campus) C 185

“Opening the Way: Collaborations Between the Classroom and the Press” (Jim Bodeen, Blue Begonia press, and Dan Peters, Yakima Valley CC) C 160

“Sabbatical Notes: Exploring the Culture of Turkey” (Beth Camp, Linn Benton CC) C 158

5:45 – 7:15
Wine Tasting/Social
MLK/Quiet Lounge

Saturday
7:30 – 8:15
Registration & Continental Breakfast
Exhibitor Tables
Deccio (outside Parker Room)

8:15 – 9:45
Introductions, Election information/nominations
Keynote Address: Kathleen Blake Yancey
Parker Room

10:00 - 11:00
“Finding a Way to Get Beyond ‘Correctness’: Inquiry in Advanced Composition” (Jill Darley-Vanis, Clark C) C 160

“A Gaze on Our Learning Community” (Debora Barrera Pontillo, Lauren Craft Servais, Cascadia CC) C 158

“Path Finding in Writing Classrooms and Centers” (roundtable, Michelle Pavan, Katie Chugg, and Sherri Winans, Whatcom CC) C 185

“Designing Assignments with Big Ideas in Mind: Opening Student Connections to the Power of Language” (Jill Kronstadt, Highline CC, Todd Johnson, Charlene Sain, Green River CC, and Michael Hickey South Seattle CC) C 152

“Aristotle Goes Hollywood: Video Clips for Freshman Composition” (Annie Oakes & Iris Gribble-Neal, Eastern Washington U) C 159

11:15 – 12:15
“Logic and Exposition in Composition” (Jana Carter, Montana State U) C 160

PANEL
Philosophies That Shape Our Practice: Examples from Two Worlds

“Abrecaminos: Finding Ways to Enact Feminist Pedagogies in the Classroom (Lisa Ede, Oregon State U)

“All This and Convergence too: A Journalist in the Developmental Classroom”
(Michael Van Meter, Central Oregon CC) C 158

“Finding a Way to Connect: Adjuncts, Administrators, and Online Courses” (Samm Erickson & Kris Fink, Portland CC) C 159

“Hyphenate-American Criticism: The Rhetoric of Dual Consciousness” (Patrick Williams & Jenna Williams, Eastern Washington U) C 152

“Progressive Inquiry and the Reactive Research Paper: Notes toward a Narrative Approach to Comp II” (Todd Lundburg, Cascadia CC) C 185

12:15 - 1:45
Lunch: Awards, Elections
HUB

1:45 – 2:45
“Senderos Electronico en Escritura: Electronic Pathways in Writing” (Jim Coy & Maria Griffen, Eastern Washington U) C 160

“The Path of the Academic Gypsy: The Role of the Adjunct in Writing Programs” (Todd Johnson, Green River CC)C 185

“Forging a Way: Identities, Curricula, and Communities in Transition” (Winona Beck, Cori Brewster, graduate teaching assistants, Washington State U) C 159

“Hey, This Way! The Play Starts in Five Minutes” (Dodie Forrest & Sandra Schroeder, YVCC) C 152

PANEL
Integrating Popular Culture into the Curriculum

“The Oprah Effect”: What Can Literature Instructors Learn from Oprah’s Book Club? (Stacey Donohue, Central Oregon CC) & “Connecting the Horror Genre and Descriptive Writing” C (Heather Elder, Spokane Falls CC & North Idaho C) C 158

3:00 – 4:00
“Improving Students’ Writing Skills Without Going Crazy” (Christian Birrer Gonzaga Prep) C 160

Chat with Kathleen Blake Yancey C 185

“Finding a Way to (Full-time) Work or Buscando camino hacia un trabajo (fijo)” (Connie Wasem, Laura Reed, & Alexis Nelson, Spokane Falls CC) C 158

“50-something Professor Meets Playstation = Videogames as Contemporary Literature” (Angi Caster, Jeff (Trill) Carlsen, and Hillary Crenshaw, Highline CC)C 159

“The Three I’s: Inspiration, Imagination, and Innovation” (Julie Marr, Ruth Williams, graduate teaching assistants, Eastern Washington U) C 152

4:10 – 4:30
Closing:
Conference Evaluations & Door Prizes
Parker Room