- Newsworthy: Summer Academy Participants to Showcase Their Computer Skills in Today's Teaching Forum
- 3130 Haley Center Now Open
- Africana Studies Department Continuing Discourse - Lecture to Be Held in Foy Student Union - Today - 12:00 pm
- Great Flicks - Tonight - 7:30 pm - 1203 Haley Center
- Online Survey Regarding Spring 2004 Schedule - Deadline for Completion - Friday, January 23 - 4:40 pm
- PETL Teaching Enhancement Activity - Thursday, January 29
- Nominations and Submissions Deadline for Graduate Student Awards - Friday, January 30 - 4:40 pm
- Nominations for Undergraduate Achievement Awards Due Friday, January 30
- Undergraduate Writing Awards Submissions Due Friday, January 30
- AU Libraries Offering Spring Faculty Seminars
- Call for Papers Sponsored by The Association of College English Teachers of Alabama - Deadline - Monday, February 16
Summer Academy
Participants to Showcase Their Computer Skills in Today's Teaching
Forum
Today, Kathy McClelland and Joyce Rothschild will share
the results of their Summer Academy projects from 3:00-4:30 pm in
1203 Haley Center. McClelland's presentation on teaching punctuation
is titled, "Mouse-overs, Dreamweavers, and Me," and Rothschild's
presentation will be "Using the WebCT Discussion
Tool in ENGL 3040: Technical Writing."
McClelland's project was a complete redesign of the Comma website that she and Robin Sabino had created in the late 1990s with a Breeden Grant. McClelland wanted to simplify the punctuation pages on their website and take advantages of some new interactive abilities of the web that she and Sabino didn't have access to when first designing the pages. Using tools she learned about in the Summer Academy, McClelland redesigned the pages on the website. The final pages are much easier to use, simpler, and more streamlined than those of the original website. Her presentation today will be a brief comparison of the two websites and the official unveiling of the new pages. Visit the Comma website.
Rothschild's experience in last year's Summer Academy led her to produce a WebCT site for ENGL 3040: Technical Writing that she will discuss and demonstrate at today's Teaching Forum. Her main use of WebCT is to engage students in discussion of major technical writing artifacts (for instance, the NASA report on the explosion of the Space Shuttle Columbia, the FEMA report on the structural collapse of the World Trade Center towers, a Pew Commission study on the state of the world's oceans) that have social, historical, and political dimensions. Rothschild used the WebCT discussions feature successfully in two sections of technical writing this past fall and is using it again this spring.
3130 Haley Center Now Open
3130 Haley Center is now open for class meetings.
The room has 21 workstations with MS Office, Macromedia Studio
(Dreamweaver, Flash, and Fireworks), and Adobe Photoshop. The sign up
sheet is posted outside 8066 Haley Center.
If you find the time you want is not available, please send Betsy Smith an email identifying your needs.
Africana Studies Department Continuing
Discourse - Lecture to Be Held in Foy Student Union - Today - 12:00
pm
Dr. Robin Sabino will present "Plural Marking and the
History of African American English" today in Foy 203 at 12:00
pm.
Great Flicks - Tonight
- 7:30 pm - 1203 Haley Center
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pasolini, 1964)
This Italian adaptation, emphasizing realism and employing
many nonprofessional actors, is often praised for its charismatic,
powerful
Christ and unusual adherence to the original text. The result is
an emotional, sometimes meditative presentation of Jesus as a revolutionary
force in
the world.
View the Great Flicks spring schedule.
Online Survey Regarding Spring 2004 Schedule - Deadline for
Completion - Friday, January 23 - 4:40 pm
In its continuing effort to improve the scheduling process, the English
Department asks that you complete an online
survey regarding assignments for Spring 2004. The survey will take about 5 minutes for you to complete.
For your responses to be considered, you will need to complete the survey by 4:40 pm, Friday, January 23.
PETL Teaching Enhancement Activity - Thursday, January 29
The Promotion of Excellence in Teaching and Learning (PETL)
Committee announces the first of its teaching enhancement activities
for Spring 2004. CLA PETL "New Faculty" Mid-Year Orientation
- Campus Resources for Developing Your Teaching Skills - will meet on
Thursday,
January 29 in 202 Thach Hall from 3:30-5:00 pm. The coordinator of the
meeting will be Dr. Steve Brown, Political Science.
During the meeting, new faculty (tenure-track faculty in their first 3 years of teaching at Auburn) will be introduced to the teaching and learning resources available on campus to help them develop their teaching skills and interests. All attendees will receive a free copy of McKeachie's classic Teach Tips book. Refreshments will be provided.
If you have any questions or comments, please email Bill Buskist.
Nominations and Submissions
Deadline for Graduate Student Awards - Friday, January 30
- 4:40 pm
Each spring semester, the English Department presents awards
to its graduate students. If you have an eligible conference
presentation or
publication, please submit it to Craig Bertolet. If you have any
questions, please see Craig
Bertolet or Jeremy Downes.
Nominations for Undergraduate Achievement
Awards Due Friday, January 30
Faculty should nominate deserving students for Achievement
Awards in the form of a letter of recommendation addressed
to the Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies. Explain how you know the
student and the nature and distinctiveness of the student's academic
achievement.
Please email Timothy Dykstal for more information.
Undergraduate Writing Awards Submissions Due Friday, January
30
English Department faculty should encourage their undergraduate
students to submit their poetry, creative fiction, creative non-fiction
prose, technical communication, and/or academic essays to this year's
Writing Awards competition. Students
may submit
only
one entry per category, but they may enter in more than one category.
No student can win in more than one category in any year, and no student
may win
in the same category in consecutive years.
The Writing Awards competition is open to all currently enrolled undergraduate students at Auburn University. Submissions are due Friday, January 30.
To submit an entry, students must fill out the online entry form and then submit a copy of each entry to the box marked "Undergraduate Writing Awards" in 9030 Haley Center. Entries should be identified by title only - not the student's name. In addition, each page of the entry should list the title of the work and be numbered. The faculty reserves the right to forgo an award in any category with insufficient competitive entries.
AU Libraries Offering Spring Faculty
Seminars
The Reference Department of AU Libraries offers a variety of
Faculty Seminars every semester. These seminars are generally one-hour
long classes that describe useful services or databases for maximum impact
in their research. All classes are taught by a reference librarian from
AU Libraries.
All seminars are free, but advance registration is required. To see the full seminar schedule, descriptions, and easy registration instructions, visit the website and click on Library Services.
Call for Papers Sponsored by The Association
of College English Teachers of Alabama - Deadline - Monday, February
16
The Association of College English Teachers of Alabama annually
sponsors best paper awards to be presented at their annual meeting at
Auburn University
Montgomery.
The Calvert paper may be on any scholarly or theoretical topic related to English studies, and the Woodall paper may be on any pedagogical topic related to English studies. A prize of $150 will be awarded to the college English teacher or graduate student in English submitting the best paper in either category. The McMillan Award will go to an undergraduate writer.
Papers may not have been published previously. Your name, title of the essay, and institutional affiliation should appear on a cover sheet and not on the essay.
Please send entries to:
Susie Paul
Department of English and Philosophy
Auburn University Montgomery
P.O. Box 2440423
Montgomery, AL 36124-4023
To include an item in The English Channel, submit text items by Tuesday at 11:40 am for publication Wednesday. Submit items by email to Kelly Messerschmidt or Betsy Smith or put the information in their mailbox. Please check your submission for accuracy and completion--all calendar items and meeting announcements must include the date, time, and location of the event.
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Last updated January 21, 2004