Converging () est. 2007

est. 2007

CLiC: Year 1 Develop Interdisciplinary Advisory Board Bring in Outside Consultant (Richard Selfe, Director of the Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing, the Ohio State University) Establish 5-year plan Generate departmental and campus-wide buy-in Develop interdisciplinary partnerships 2007-2008

Develop Interdisciplinary Advisory Board

Bring in Outside Consultant (Richard Selfe, Director of the Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing, the Ohio State University)

Establish 5-year plan

Generate departmental and campus-wide buy-in

Develop interdisciplinary partnerships

CLiC: Year 1 (cont.) Develop scholarly framework for CLiC Publish, publish, publish! Present, present, present! Establish partnership with the National Conversation on Writing and, more formally, the Gee Library 2007-2008

Develop scholarly framework for CLiC

Publish, publish, publish!

Present, present, present!

Establish partnership with the National Conversation on Writing and, more formally, the Gee Library

CLiC: Year 1 Establish procedures and protocols for intake of NCoW submissions, offer intellectual and administrative support for this growing national resource Offer Professional Development workshop and explore other opportunities for outreach 2008-2009

Establish procedures and protocols for intake of NCoW submissions, offer intellectual and administrative support for this growing national resource

Offer Professional Development workshop and explore other opportunities for outreach

CLiC: Year 1 Continue with Celebrations of Student Writing, revamping FYC curriculum to reflect best practices emerging from CLiC-sponsored research (and elsewhere) Integrate new media into FYC curriculum Develop mechanisms for supporting writing in multiple modalities (through the writing center) Establish new media writing studio in CSC National search for new tenure-line writing center director 2007-2008

Continue with Celebrations of Student Writing, revamping FYC curriculum to reflect best practices emerging from CLiC-sponsored research (and elsewhere)

Integrate new media into FYC curriculum

Develop mechanisms for supporting writing in multiple modalities (through the writing center)

Establish new media writing studio in CSC

National search for new tenure-line writing center director

CLiC: Year 2 National Search for tenure-line writing center director (Tabetha Adkins, PhD, University of Louisville--literacy studies, writing center studies, basic writing studies, new media) National Search for tenure-line FYC director with new media emphasis (reopen next year) Develop more elaborate systems and protocols for supporting faculty, staff, and student work with new media 2008-2009

National Search for tenure-line writing center director (Tabetha Adkins, PhD, University of Louisville--literacy studies, writing center studies, basic writing studies, new media)

National Search for tenure-line FYC director with new media emphasis (reopen next year)

Develop more elaborate systems and protocols for supporting faculty, staff, and student work with new media

CLiC: Year 2 Begin integrating new media into graduate courses Extend Celebration of Student Writing to include students beyond English 102 Further establish National Conversation on Writing (through CLiC-submissions, modeling, video/audio development) publish, publish, publish present, present, present 2008-2009

Begin integrating new media into graduate courses

Extend Celebration of Student Writing to include students beyond English 102

Further establish National Conversation on Writing (through CLiC-submissions, modeling, video/audio development)

publish, publish, publish

present, present, present

CLiC: Year 2 And some exciting, somewhat unexpected developments! 2008-2009

And some exciting, somewhat unexpected developments!

Publications (forthcoming, plus one under review) Carter, Shannon and Donna Dunbar-Odom. “The Converging Literacies Center: An Integrated Model for Writing Programs.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. Accepted and forthcoming. (webtext) Dunbar-Odom, Donna and Shannon Carter. “Writing for Our Lives: An Integrated Model for Writing at Composition’s ‘End.’” Journal of Writing Program Administrators . Under review. Carter, Shannon. “The Activist Writing Center.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy . Fall 2011. Accepted and Forthcoming (webtext). Carter, Shannon and Bump Halbritter, eds. (Re)mediating the Conversation: Undergraduate Research in Writing and Rhetoric. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. Summer 2011. Special issue, forthcoming. Many more in development., including textbooks Many more already in print (including Donna’s book Defying the Odds and Shannon’s The Way Literacy Lives.

Carter, Shannon and Donna Dunbar-Odom. “The Converging Literacies Center: An Integrated Model for Writing Programs.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. Accepted and forthcoming. (webtext)

Dunbar-Odom, Donna and Shannon Carter. “Writing for Our Lives: An Integrated Model for Writing at Composition’s ‘End.’” Journal of Writing Program Administrators . Under review.

Carter, Shannon. “The Activist Writing Center.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy . Fall 2011. Accepted and Forthcoming (webtext).

Carter, Shannon and Bump Halbritter, eds. (Re)mediating the Conversation: Undergraduate Research in Writing and Rhetoric. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. Summer 2011. Special issue, forthcoming.

Many more in development., including textbooks Many more already in print (including Donna’s book Defying the Odds and Shannon’s The Way Literacy Lives.

Presentations CCCC 2007 (NYC), National Council for Teachers of English 2007 (NYC), Texas Council for Teachers of English Language Arts 2008 (Houston), South Central Writing Centers Association (Norman, OK), CCCC 2008 (New Orleans, LA), International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference 2008 (Austin, TX), Council of Writing Program Administrators 2008 (Denver, CO), Thomas R. Watson Conference on Writing and Rhetoric 2008 (Louisville, KY) National Council for Teachers of English 2008 (San Antonio, Texas), National Writing Project 2008 (San Antonio, Texas), CCCC 2009 (San Francisco, CA), Council of Writing Program Administrators 2009 (Minneapolis, MN)

CCCC 2007 (NYC), National Council for Teachers of English 2007 (NYC), Texas Council for Teachers of English Language Arts 2008 (Houston), South Central Writing Centers Association (Norman, OK), CCCC 2008 (New Orleans, LA), International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference 2008 (Austin, TX), Council of Writing Program Administrators 2008 (Denver, CO), Thomas R. Watson Conference on Writing and Rhetoric 2008 (Louisville, KY) National Council for Teachers of English 2008 (San Antonio, Texas), National Writing Project 2008 (San Antonio, Texas), CCCC 2009 (San Francisco, CA), Council of Writing Program Administrators 2009 (Minneapolis, MN)

http://ncow.org/site/index.htm

http://ncow.org/features/feature_1_09.htm

http://ncow.org/site/about/index2.html

Conference on Basic Writing Texas A&M-Commerce (via CLiC becomes CBW institutional home--after 10 years at ASU CLiC major redesign of CBW site CLiC major redesign of BWe--Basic Writing e-Journal (peer reviewed) CLiC publishes 2008 issue, 2009 now taking submissions website: http://orgs.tamu-commerce.edu/CBW/ Journal: http://orgs.tamu-commerce.edu/BWe/

Texas A&M-Commerce (via CLiC becomes CBW institutional home--after 10 years at ASU

CLiC major redesign of CBW site

CLiC major redesign of BWe--Basic Writing e-Journal (peer reviewed)

CLiC publishes 2008 issue, 2009 now taking submissions

CLiC spaces http://writingwithnewmedia.blogspot.com/2009/04/week-12-agenda.html equipment support

http://writingwithnewmedia.blogspot.com/2009/04/week-12-agenda.html

equipment

support

Celebrations! Part I: Celebrating First-Year Researchers Part II: Celebrating Writing with New Media (graduate students)

Part I: Celebrating First-Year Researchers

Part II: Celebrating Writing with New Media (graduate students)

First-Year Researchers Who? all English 102 students Wednesday, May 13, 2:30-4:00 SRC, 2nd floor http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/scarter/csw_invitation.html

Who? all English 102 students

Wednesday, May 13, 2:30-4:00

SRC, 2nd floor

http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/scarter/csw_invitation.html

Writing with New Media Who? English 597 students, plus a couple faculty and staff members When? Thursday, May 14, 4:30-7:00 http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/scarter/CLiC/clic-events.htm http://writingwithnewmedia.blogspot.com /

Who? English 597 students, plus a couple faculty and staff members

When? Thursday, May 14, 4:30-7:00

http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/scarter/CLiC/clic-events.htm

http://writingwithnewmedia.blogspot.com /

What’s Next? Lecture series Second Life and ...?

Lecture series

Second Life

and ...?