Opened Practices Users Working in: English

60 Shiloh Rd. Campus Mail 5088

I teach at a small, private institution in Appalachia where I serve as department chair and teach composition, American literature, and other courses. Our college is part of the ACA (Appalachian College Association) which I have been involved with for ten years.

I graduated in 1997 with a doctorate in American and 20th Century Literature from the University of North Carolina,Chapel Hill. In 1997, I joined the faculty of Tusculum College in Greeneville, TN (http://www.tusculum.edu). My publications include the book and a series of articles on E. E. Cummings. As a scholar, my interests include language issues and theories of meaning, and my research focuses on intersections of real and imagined spaces. One of these spaces is the classroom--I also focus intensely on 'what works' in the classroom. I have explored the dynamics of learning since working with the Chapel Hill Center for Teaching and Learning and continued my involvement through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) movement and my presentations at the Appalachian College Association Summits on Teaching and Learning. I believe in active learning, in effective course planning, and in engaging students in challenging ways. My favorite activities with students are the experiential assignments that we do in rare book rooms and art museums (even if I have to drive eight hours to get them there!). My teaching philosophy is on my portfolio page: http://taointenn.googlepages.com/teachingphilosophy.

E. 502 Boone Avenue

I have taught literature, rhetoric, and composition for 20 years and am still interested in trying to create better learning environments for students.

75 Shore Blvd

For the last 17 years, I have taught English in various schools across Orange and Sullivan counties. I have taught 6-12 in public school, including Advanced Placement Literature and Advanced Placement Language. I have taught English 101 at Orange County Community College. I teach Catechism to 4th graders. I have coached Varsity soccer, skiing, and Track n Field. I currently coach pee wee soccer for my kids' teams.

I graduated from a local Catholic high school here in Orange County New York, and I left for college, swearing that I would never return the rural hills of the Hudson Valley. My home town had a blinking light; the public school graduated about 35 kids.. I excelled at English Ed at Fredonia State University, and I was chosen to represent the school on an international student-teacher exchange to Canterbury England, where I spent a summer semester teaching the British children of St. George's in Thanet. I returned to Fredonia to finish my senior year, and I was awarded a graduate internship that would have enabled me to earn my PhD from the University at Buffalo. Budget cuts that year eliminated the position, driving me back home. At a job fair, I accepted a position to teach in California, but my car died before I could set out on the road. I accepted a summer school position at my old high school, which led to a leave position at Warwick Valley Middle School, on the very edge of New York, on the New Jersey border.

The following year, I took a position in Tri-Valley, in the hear of the Catskill Mountains, where I taught English and a section of advanced Environmental Science through Cornell Cooperative Extension. I spent four years there, teaching and coaching, before I left for my current position in Minisink Valley. I have taught here for 12 years. I have worked with several student teachers, and I have mentored four of the 6 new teachers we've hired in the last 7 years, or roughly 30% of the department.

Last year, I accepted a position teaching Irish Literature to students world-wide via VHS, or Virtual High School out of New England. By teaching this course via Blackboard, 50 Minisink students are eligible to take over 250 electives via other VHS teachers. This experience drove me to seek a way to expand my face to face student's experience, which led me to Sakai. I have had such success with Sakai, that I am now teaching in-service courses about it to my colleagues. Since our core group of 10 started using Sakai in November, Minisink now boasts more than100 users.

Dr. Linda.Adler-Kassner is interested in how different groups and individuals define literacy, and how those definitions shape their interactions in various contexts (like school and home).

I joined the English Department at EMU in the fall of 2000 as the Director of First-Year Writing. Much of my job here involves working with our first-year writing courses and the graduate instructors teaching those courses. I also teach first-year writing (ENGL 121), upper-level writing courses like Writing, Style, and Language (ENGL 328), and graduate courses in composition and literacy theory and pedagogy. EMU is a comprehensive university of about 24,000 students, and about 90% of them take at least one of our two first-year courses (ENGL 120 and ENGL 121). Our program is exciting, dynamic, and challenging. We build our own curriculum, and are always engaged in study of that curriculum and data-driven revision of it. In 2005, our work was recognized by the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) with a CCCC Certificate of Excellence.

My current research focuses on students, writing, and literacy practices. More specifically, of late I've focused on strategies for writing program administrators (WPAs) and instructors to advocate for students, conceptualizations of writing and literacy, and the work of writing programs through alliance building and smart assessment. This is the subject of my new book, _The Activist WPA: Changing Stories about Writing and Writers_ (Utah State UP), as well as many of my recent articles and presentations. I am also the coordinator of the Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA) Network for Media Action (or WPA-NMA), a project devoted to developing resources for WPAs to affect public discussions of and public policy around writing instruction. I am also the current Vice President of the WPA and will become president in 2009.

My interest in assessment also stems from my work around writing instruction and advocacy. We're in the midst of a long assessment process in our program, as above; I also work with the Higher Learning Commission (our regional accreditor) as a facilitator for workshops like the Academy for Assessment of Student Learning, which helps institutions develop smart assessment projects.

Literary critic, philosopher

Jean Mach is Professor of English and Team Leader, CASTL Campus Leadership Program at the College of San Mateo.

Judith Stanley is a professor of English at Alverno College, renown for its portfolio practices.

Judith V. Kirkpatrick is a professor of English for Kapiolani Community College. She conducts research and provides support for an interdisciplinary group of faculty using ePortfolios and distributed instruction. Kirkpatrick received the 2003 David Pierce Honorable Mention technology innovator award from the American Association of Community Colleges and has twice chaired the national Computers and Writing Conference. Since 1999, Kirkpatrick has also provided vision, development, and technology support for a sustainable computer environment in a low-income housing project that college students run.

Julia M. Williams is the Executive Director of the Office of Institutional Research, Planning and Assessment & Professor of English at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Her articles on writing assessment, electronic portfolios, and ABET have appeared in the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Technical Communication Quarterly, Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication, and the International Journal of Engineering Education. She is also the recipient of a Tablet PC Technology, Curriculum, and Higher Education 2005 award from Microsoft Research to assess the impact of tablet PCs and collaboration-facilitating software on student learning.