{"id":2751,"date":"2014-08-19T12:31:55","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T17:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cft.vanderbilt.edu\/?p=19791"},"modified":"2014-08-19T12:31:55","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T17:31:55","slug":"teaching-writing-in-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/2014\/08\/teaching-writing-in-the-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Writing in the 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px;\" title=\"Teaching.Writing.Learning. Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/cft.vanderbilt.edu\/teaching-writing-learning-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"179\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Center for Teaching is again collaborating with the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/\" >Writing Studio<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.vanderbilt.edu\/\" >Jean &amp; Alexander Heard<\/a> <a style=\"font-size: 13px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.library.vanderbilt.edu\/\" >Library<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">the <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 13px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/elc\/\" >English Language Center<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">, and (new this year) the <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 13px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/curbcenter\/\" >Curb Center<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"> to develop resourceful experiences for anyone who teaches writing at Vanderbilt. \u00a0This year, we&#8217;re sponsoring a one-day <\/span><strong style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cft.vanderbilt.edu\/events\/twl\/\" >Teaching.Writing.Learning. Institute<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">, held on <strong>Friday, September 12<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0day-long workshop will help participants develop writing assignments that\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">engage students in challenging and meaningful ways. We&#8217;ll explore the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An introduction to learning how cognitive science, technology, and theory affect writing pedagogy<\/li>\n<li>Writing assignments that integrate media such as video, still photography, and audio (multimodal assignments)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Registration will be limited to 25<\/em>. \u00a0To register, <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/1rPzpPY3bkkxwt5BmB7lwkUrITLjnx05eTZj5JjcuJNk\/viewform?c=0&amp;w=1\" >fill out this form by August 25<\/a>, when registration closes and participants will be notified by email. <\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">For additional info, contact <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 13px;\" href=\"mailto:elizabeth.covington@vanderbilt.edu\" >Elizabeth Covington<\/a> at\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/\" >Writing Studio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Teaching is again collaborating with the\u00a0Writing Studio, the\u00a0Jean &#038; Alexander Heard Library,the English Language Center, and (new this year) the Curb Center to develop resourceful experiences for anyone who teaches writing at Vanderbilt. \u00a0This year, we&#8217;re sponsoring&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1995,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,38,222,197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-partners","category-events","category-resource","category-teaching-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1995"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}