The South Coast Writing Project (SCWriP) announces its 2016 Summer Technology Institute. This free, two-day, hands-on digital writing workshop will be held August 9-10, 2016, 9 am - 2:30 pm, on the UC Santa Barbara campus. It is open to all K-12 and college teachers.
Attendees will learn how to apply game theory and multiple modes of literacy to create engaging digital writing lessons and units for their classes. Participants will go over general principles and definitions of game theory, learn an assortment of technologies, and spend time developing writing projects tailored to our own classrooms.
The event will be led by Ithaca College assistant professor Dr. Mary Lourdes Silva (SCWriP Fellow ’08). Silva is a Gevirtz School alumna, having earned a Ph.D. from the Department of Education with an emphasis in Language, Literacy, and Composition Studies in 2011. On her Ithaca College website she writes: “In the last five years, I have been known as the ‘technology professor,’ because of my use of digital learning tools and technologies in the classroom. My goal is to transform what it means to learn to write in the 21st century and design learning environments that allow students to participate and collectively construct new knowledge to solve or re-imagine 21st problems.”
RSVP TODAY: https://www.facebook.com/events/1205167129517382/ Contact msilva@ithaca.edu to learn more or to arrange to participate virtually.
The South Coast Writing Project (SCWriP) is an affiliated site of the National Writing Project (NWP) and the California Writing Project (CWP). It focuses on improving the teaching of writing at every level of education and across all disciplines. A network of teachers dedicated to improving student writing by improving the teaching of writing, SCWriP provides professional learning, resources, and expanded roles for teachers throughout the tricounties.