Composition Course Information for Faculty and Staff

11-11:50 a.m. Thursday, September 26, 2024, 6 Rohrbach Library or via Zoom
How do we challenge students to engage more deeply with peer writing? This is an “assignment share” workshop designed to give us all more options and ideas on peer review activities and assignments. We will focus on innovative strategies that shake up students’ (and our own!) expectations of peer review. If you use an interesting peer review activity in your composition course, email sleonard@kutztown.edu a brief description, assignment sheet, or other materials to share on our D2L page and in person at the workshop. Or, you can just come to get ideas.

11-11:50 a.m. Thursday, October 10, 2024, 6 Rohrbach Library or via Zoom
How do you teach students about LLMs (Large Language Models)? This is an “assignment share” workshop designed to give us all more options and ideas in teaching about or with “A.I.” If you are planning on using A.I. in your composition course, email sleonard@kutztown.edu a brief description, assignment sheet, or other materials to share on our D2L page and in person at the workshop. Or, you can just come to get ideas.

11-11:50 a.m. Thursday, October 24, 2024, 6 Rohrbach Library or via Zoom
Megan Rutter from the DSO will show us assistive technology in Microsoft 365 and Glean. This demonstration will be followed by a discussion on pedagogical strategies for accommodations relevant to the composition classroom such as flexible assignment deadlines, oral participation, use of a computer, electronic notetaking, and more.

11-11:50 a.m. Thursday, November 7, 2024, 6 Rohrbach Library or via Zoom
Do you assign—or want to assign—posters, podcasts, presentations, videos, games, blogs, or more? This is an “assignment share” workshop designed to give us all more options and ideas on multimodal activities and assignments. If you assign any multimodal composition in your course, email sleonard@kutztown.edu a brief description, assignment sheet, or other materials to share on our D2L page and in person at the workshop. Or, you can just come to get ideas.

11-11:50 a.m. Thursday, December 5, 2024, 6 Rohrbach Library or via Zoom
Your Kutztown composition faculty colleagues wrote an Open Educational Resource textbook! This workshop will introduce you to this FREE resource designed specifically for Kutztown students in COMP100 courses and meet some of the faculty authors involved in this project.