Writing, Mapping, and Community Action:
A Faculty Development Workshop

9:00 to 10:30      Writing and Community Action

                              Tom Deans, University of Connecticut

Reflecting on changes in his own service-learning pedagogy, Tom Deans will discuss how attending to writing can help us discern the different kinds of intellectual work afoot as students engage in community-based projects; he will address the possibilites and pitfalls of having students write for, about and with communtiy partners. His presentation will include descriptions of writing assignments for first-year and advanced courses, advice on how to help students negotiate new audiences and genres, and samples of student writing.

Tom Deans is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Writing Center at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. His research interests are in writing, rhetoric, service-learning, and Shakespeare. Previously, Professor Deans was the Nancy Buster Alvord Director of College Writing and Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Haverford College in Pennsylvania. His most recent book is Writing and Community Action (Longman, 2003). Read more at: http://english.ucon.edu/directory/personal_pages/deans_t.html

10:45 to noon      Mapping Communities

                               Rachel Barlow and Dan Lloyd, Trinity College 

Rachel Barlow (Social Science Data Coordinator, Library) and Dan Lloyd (Philosophy), will discuss the use of "google mash-ups" --web-based maps with special information added by the user-- in class projects. Barlow and Lloyd will present an overview of mash-ups as a new medium, commenting on the range of mash-up applications, and initial considerations for their use in class projects and with community partners. For more information and examples see: http://prog.trincoll.edu/gis/projects/fymashups/

SELECTION OF RESOURCES AVAILABLE AT WORKSHOP:

Community Writing

Writing Knowledge

Google Mashup Guide