OWI Symposium August 2021
The Online Writing Instruction Community would like to invite you to join their 2021 virtual symposiums! After an overwhelmingly positive response to our August 2020 and September 2020 symposiums, we are pleased to bring you another series of virtual symposiums in August 2021 and September 2021.
For both of this year’s symposiums we asked our presenters to focus on activities and strategies for successfully facilitating fully asynchronous, fully synchronous, or hybrid/blended online writing courses.
This year’s presentations will be short, practical, and to the point. The presenters will focus their talks on one practice-based activity, concept, or process that instructors or administrators could implement in their online/hybrid writing courses or programs with little or no modification.
Dates and Registration
For Registration see The OWI Community Facebook group, The OWI Community Google Group Discussion Forum, and the Writing Studies Listervs, or connect with The OWI Community.
For both of this year’s symposiums we asked our presenters to focus on activities and strategies for successfully facilitating fully asynchronous, fully synchronous, or hybrid/blended online writing courses.
This year’s presentations will be short, practical, and to the point. The presenters will focus their talks on one practice-based activity, concept, or process that instructors or administrators could implement in their online/hybrid writing courses or programs with little or no modification.
Dates and Registration
- August Date: Friday August 20th 1 p.m.-3 p.m. ET
- September Date: Friday September 17th 1 p.m.-3 p.m. ET
For Registration see The OWI Community Facebook group, The OWI Community Google Group Discussion Forum, and the Writing Studies Listervs, or connect with The OWI Community.
Presenter Bios and Ignite Talk Titles
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Erica Stone & Kate Pantelides "Dipping Your Toe in the Water: A Visual Metaphor for Ungrading in OWI"
Erica M. Stone is an Assistant Professor of English and the Associate Director of General Education English at Middle Tennessee State University. She works at the intersection of technical communication, public rhetoric, and community organizing. Read more about her community-based work at www.ericamstone.com. Contact her at [email protected] or on Twitter @ericamstone. Kate Pantelides has taught rhetoric, composition, and technical communication courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her research addresses research methods, feminist rhetorics, and writing program administration. Dr. Pantelides’ work has been published in College Composition and Communication, Composition Studies, Computers and Composition: An International Journal, and Composition Studies, among other venues. Link to handout Link to slides Link to video |
Jessica Jorgenson Borchert "Creating a User Journey for Synchronous and Asynchronous Learners"
Jessica Jorgenson Borchert is an Assistant Professor of English and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum at Pittsburg State University. She teaches courses in technical and professional writing and digital rhetoric. Her research primarily focuses on motherhood, particularly looking at the ways of how parenting affects female academics.
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Jessica Jorgenson Borchert is an Assistant Professor of English and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum at Pittsburg State University. She teaches courses in technical and professional writing and digital rhetoric. Her research primarily focuses on motherhood, particularly looking at the ways of how parenting affects female academics.
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Cat Mahaffey "Online Parlors: Meaning-making Discussions for Online Asynchronous Writing Courses"
Cat Mahaffey is a Senior Lecturer in the Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies (WRDS) Department at UNC Charlotte. She also serves as the Vice President of the Global Society of Online Literacy Educators (GSOLE), the Associate Chair of the CCCC’s Online Writing Instruction (OWI) Standing Group, and as a Quality Matters Master Reviewer (QMMR). Read more about her at https://pages.uncc.edu/cathy-mahaffey
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Cat Mahaffey is a Senior Lecturer in the Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies (WRDS) Department at UNC Charlotte. She also serves as the Vice President of the Global Society of Online Literacy Educators (GSOLE), the Associate Chair of the CCCC’s Online Writing Instruction (OWI) Standing Group, and as a Quality Matters Master Reviewer (QMMR). Read more about her at https://pages.uncc.edu/cathy-mahaffey
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Catrina Mitchum "Balancing a Pedagogy of Care and Self-Care when Teaching Writing Online"
Catrina Mitchum is the Interim Director of Online Writing for the Writing Program, a Career-Track Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, and an Affiliate faculty member of Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English (RCTE) at the University of Arizona. Her research interests are in retention and online course design and delivery of online writing classes, and the use of digital technology in the classroom. She teaches first-year writing courses as well as upper level undergraduate courses in Professional and Technical Writing, entirely online. Twitter: @trinamitchum
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Catrina Mitchum is the Interim Director of Online Writing for the Writing Program, a Career-Track Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, and an Affiliate faculty member of Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English (RCTE) at the University of Arizona. Her research interests are in retention and online course design and delivery of online writing classes, and the use of digital technology in the classroom. She teaches first-year writing courses as well as upper level undergraduate courses in Professional and Technical Writing, entirely online. Twitter: @trinamitchum
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Joanne Baird Giordano "Practical Strategies for Integrating Reading and Writing in Online and Hybrid Literacy Courses"
Joanne Baird Giordano is an Associate Professor of English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies at Salt Lake Community College. Her research focuses on students’ literacy development and transitions to postsecondary reading and writing at open-admissions institutions. Her recent collaborative projects explore the teaching experiences of two-year college English faculty both before and during the global pandemic.
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Joanne Baird Giordano is an Associate Professor of English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies at Salt Lake Community College. Her research focuses on students’ literacy development and transitions to postsecondary reading and writing at open-admissions institutions. Her recent collaborative projects explore the teaching experiences of two-year college English faculty both before and during the global pandemic.
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Nicole E Rothenay "Design Thinking for OWI-Friendly Multimodal Composition Activities"
Nicole Rothenay teaches, learns, and works fully online as a full-time Instructor of Communication at American Public University System, adjunct Instructor of English at Texas Tech University, and graduate student of Technical Communication at Texas Tech. Her research interests include user experience (UX), multimodal composition and visual rhetoric, and professional communication. Twitter: @HelloNicoler.
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Nicole Rothenay teaches, learns, and works fully online as a full-time Instructor of Communication at American Public University System, adjunct Instructor of English at Texas Tech University, and graduate student of Technical Communication at Texas Tech. Her research interests include user experience (UX), multimodal composition and visual rhetoric, and professional communication. Twitter: @HelloNicoler.
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Shelley Rodrigo "The UDL Functionality is There; Do They Know How to Use It?"
Rochelle (Shelley) Rodrigo (@rrodrigo) is currently the Senior Director of the Writing Program at the University of Arizona; she previously served as the Associate Director of Online Writing. She researches how “newer” technologies better facilitate communicative interactions, specifically teaching and learning. Shelley has taught and researched about online writing courses for over two decades.
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Rochelle (Shelley) Rodrigo (@rrodrigo) is currently the Senior Director of the Writing Program at the University of Arizona; she previously served as the Associate Director of Online Writing. She researches how “newer” technologies better facilitate communicative interactions, specifically teaching and learning. Shelley has taught and researched about online writing courses for over two decades.
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Margaret Poncin "Scaffolding Reflective Writing to Encourage Transfer of Learning"
Margaret Poncin Reeves teaches first-year writing, professional writing, and courses for multilingual students at DePaul University. Her research interests include multilingual and multimodal pedagogy, teaching with technology, and rhetorical genre theory.
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Margaret Poncin Reeves teaches first-year writing, professional writing, and courses for multilingual students at DePaul University. Her research interests include multilingual and multimodal pedagogy, teaching with technology, and rhetorical genre theory.
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Tanya Jo Woodward "Pitch This: Rhetorical Situation Business Video Pitches"
Tanya Woodward is a Graduate Assistant at the University of Nebraska-Kearney, completing an M.A. in English with a writing/rhetoric concentration. Her research interests include the intersectionality of rhetoric and religion, exilic narratives, and teaching composition in international settings. Originally from a ranch in Nebraska, she grew up in Kijabe, Kigali and Kampala (East Africa) as well as London and Liss (UK), her other hometowns.
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Tanya Woodward is a Graduate Assistant at the University of Nebraska-Kearney, completing an M.A. in English with a writing/rhetoric concentration. Her research interests include the intersectionality of rhetoric and religion, exilic narratives, and teaching composition in international settings. Originally from a ranch in Nebraska, she grew up in Kijabe, Kigali and Kampala (East Africa) as well as London and Liss (UK), her other hometowns.
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