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2001 Conference Highlights

Fri, 2005-06-03 13:09 — Samm Erickson

TYCA-PNW's 2001 annual conference , 'English in Transition:  The Fabric of Discourse' was held October 12-13, 2001 at Centralia College in Centralia, Washington. 

For our Fall 2001 conference, we extend a special thank you to Dennis Hernandes, Prentice-Hall, for co-sponsoring our keynoter, Lynn Quitman Troyka; to the National Council of Teachers of English, for co-sponsoring workshop leader, Lynn Craigue Briggs; and to Academic Systems for providing snacks throughout the day.  We also appreciate our other exhibitors:  Bedford/St. Martin's, Harcourt, Newsweek Magazine, and McGraw-Hill.

Theme:    Our discipline is informed and defined by multiple pedagogies, shifts in teaching philosophies, mediums of instruction, community needs, and student demographical patterns. This conference showcases the efforts of English instructors at two-year colleges as they share their techniques for weaving and designing the fabric of our discourse and meeting the diverse demands of working at a community college.  These thoughts led us to our theme:  'English in Transition:  The Fabric of Discourse.' 

Keynoters: 

   Lynn Quitman Troyka was the keynoter.  For more information about this nationally recognized teacher, writer and inspirational speaker, please see this biography that highlights her many accomplishments, posted by Prentice-Hall, who is partly sponsoring Lynn's keynote address. 

Jay Wooten, of Kent State University, in Salem, Illinois, represented the national TYCA perspective at our conference. 

Additionally, Lynn Craigue Briggs, director of the University Writer's Center at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington, and co-editor of Stories from the Center:  Connecting Narrative and Theory in the Writing Center, led a Friday night workshop.   Her workshop was funded through the generosity of the National Council of Teachers of English' Co-sponsored Speakers' program. 

A sampling of the Saturday sessions included:

  • Diversity in the Classroom: Problems in the Patchwork?

  • Hollywood & History: Teaching the Research Paper
  • Using PowerPoint to Enhance Literature courses
  • Redefining the Borders of Classrooms, Campuses and Traditional Roles
  • Children's Literature, Creative Drama, and Assessment Strategies
  • Rhetoric and Writing Online: Weaving Distant Threads
  • Making the Real World 'Real': Teaching Multicultural Awareness
  • The Craft Journal: Nurturing the Writer's Other Self
  • Open Admissions, Open Pedagogy, Including Basic Writing Students

Key contacts for the 2001 TYCA-PNW Conference at Centralia were:

  • Program chair: Marilyn Connor, Chemeketa Community College conm@chemeketa.edu (503) 399-5170  
  • Facilities chair: Sharon Mitchler, Centralia College smitchler@centralia.ctc.edu (360) 736-9391, Ext. 405
  • Newsletter/Publications:  Asao B. Anoue, Chemeketa Community College inoa@chemeketa.edu (503) 315-4284
  • Treasurer:  Audrey Perkins, Linn-Benton Community College, perkina@linnbenton.edu (541) 917-4662
  • Chair:  Beth Camp, Linn-Benton Community College, campbeth@attbi.com (541) 917-4556
  • Four-Year Representative:  Lisa Ede, Oregon State University, lede@orst.edu (541) 737-3710

Updated September 10, 2002.  beth.camp@linnbenton.edu

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