Workshops 2007–2008

Fall 2007

Thursday, Sept. 6, 3:40–5:00 p.m., 212 Ross Hall. Using Credible Online Resources. workshop materials (PDF) • Paul Bruski presentation, "Using Credible Online Visual Resources" (video)

Thursday, Sept. 27, 10:00 a.m.–noon, 212 Ross Hall. Writing, Design, and the Nature of Order

Lester Faigley, Robert Adger Law and Thomas H. Law Professor in the Humanities, University of Texas at Austin, will address issues at the point where rhetoric and design intersect.

Thursday, Sept. 27, 2:00–3:00 p.m., 212 Ross Hall. Teaching Writing to Visual Learners

Lester Faigley, author of The Brief Penguin Handbook, will consider the strategies for teaching writing in disciplines that are more visually oriented.

 

Thursday, Sept. 27, 3:45–4:45 p.m., 212 Ross Hall. Writing 2.0

Lester Faigley, noted author of in rhetoric and composition, will provide strategies for adapting the teaching of rhetoric to the twenty-first-century classroom with emphasis on visual communication. A reception will follow the presentation.

Thursday, Sept. 28, 9:00–11:00 a.m., 212 Ross Hall. Understanding Visual Argument

Lester Faigley, author of Writing: A Guide for College and Beyond, will conduct a workshop on teaching image-based methods of persuasion.

Tuesday, Nov. 13, 3:40–5:00 p.m., 212 Ross Hall. A V-Fair: Sharing Visual Communication Ideas. workshop materials (PDF) • Cronon Reading (PDF) • Dobrin and Weisser Reading (PDF)

ISUComm teachers will share their approaches to teaching visual communication, particularly from a thematic perspective focusing on the environment. In this workshop ISUComm presents a different approach to thinking and talking about WOVE pedagogy: WOVE and Place/Environment-Themed Communication classes. Using ideas from ecocomposition and the work of William Cronon (author of Uncommon Ground and presenter of an ISU Lecture last fall), three graduate students will share their creative and successful activities, with a focus on the visual mode.

SPECIAL FEATURE: Four faculty from English Department areas will respond to the presentations for their potential synergy with Creative Writing, Literature, Applied Linguistics, and RPC.

Londie Martin will share concepts central to ecocomposition and begin the exploration of the overlap between ecocomposition and visual communication; she will also present culture jamming and its usefulness in group work and critical visual analysis.

Joe Bartolotta will present a visual essay assignment --the Online Documentary Photo Midrash

Callae Frazier will share a capstone assignment--Composing a Thematic Magazine/Journal Cover in the Service of Place and Advocacy--highlighting the connections between ISUComm's goals and a (eco)thematic approach to visual communication.

Matt Search will share an activity, based on William Cronon's work, encouraging students to interrogate visual representations of nature in popular culture, particularly advertisement.

Our faculty responders are Deb Marquart, Linda Shenk, Roberta Vann, and Michael Mendelson.

Please RSVP Deanna (stumbo@iastate.edu) so we can plan light refreshments. But also don't hesitate to come even if you forget to RSVP!

Spring 2008

Thursday, Feb. 7, 3:40–5:00 p.m., 212 Ross Hall. An E-Fair: Sharing Electronic Communication Ideas.

ISUComm teachers will share their approaches to teaching electronic communication.

Thursday, April 3, 3:40–5:00 p.m., 74 Carver Hall. Communication Portfolios: Practical Classroom Tips.

At the end of the first official year of the ISUComm Foundation Courses, instructors will report their best practices in teaching and assessing the communication portfolio.

All workshops are open to instructors of Iowa community colleges and Iowa State University in all disciplines. If you have ideas for future workshops or would like to be a presenter, please contact Deanna Stumbo at stumbo@iastate.edu.