Fostering Connections August 9th , 2025 Tentative Schedule
9:00am - Welcome, Check in, & Light Breakfast
9:30am-10:30am - Morning Workshops (Workshops Descriptions)
Room 1203: "Empowered Admissions: helping students and colleagues navigate the world of admissions essays" (Mo Kim)
Room 1204: "Puppeteering for Creative Writing, Kinetic Learning, and Community Engagement" (Jeffrey Neil Anderson)
Room 1206: "Fostering Collaboration through Co-authored Social Justice Papers" (Angela Birts)
Room 1217: "Collaboration and Digital Literacy" (Anne F. Walker, Chelsea Criez, Alayna Mills )
10:30am - Break
10:45am- 12:00pm - Panel Discussions (Morning Panel Descriptions)
Room 1104: Peer Mentoring and Collaboration:
"Collaborators Without the Machine: Teaching Writing, Writing Culture" (Trevor Jackson)
"Building Collaborative Academic Partnerships: A Framework for Peer Mentoring in Writing and Publication" (Kara Mac Donald)
"Refining Craft Through Connection: Camaraderie is the Most Valuable Resource" (Elizabeth Spicer)
Room 1102: Peer And AI Review and Reflection - Roundtable
"Peer and AI Review + Reflection (PAIRR) in 2025: Keeping Humans in the Loop (Marit MacArthur, Aparna Sinha, Carl Whithaus)
Room 1203: Simulated Workplaces - Roundtable
"Simulated Workplaces: Enhancing Writing and Collaboration through Virtual Job Application Projects" (Mohamed Yacoub, Omar Yacoub, Youssef Yakoub, Ibrahim Yacoub)
Room 1217: Community Service Learning
"Building a Crowdsourced, Open-Access Repository for Community Writing Projects" (Charles McMartin)
"Fostering Collaborations through Public Writing and Service Learning: Insights from a College Writing in the Disciplines Class" (Sophia Minnillo)
12:00pm - Lunch
12:45pm - Room 1102 - Keynote Speaker:
Carol Jago, "The Promise and Peril of AI in the Teaching of Writing"
1:45pm - Break
2:00pm-3:00pm - Afternoon Workshops (Workshops Descriptions)
Room 1203: "Engaging Dual Enrollment Students" (Jennifer Nestojko)
Room 1217: "Developing a Robust Antiracist Curriculum Intervention in a Digital-rich Composition Classroom" (Sasha Osorio)
Room 1102: "Two Writing Assignments to Engage and Bring High School Students Well-being" (John Creger, Dan Zhou, Daniel Davis)
3:00pm - Break
3:15pm- 4:30pm - Panel Discussions (Afternoon Panel Descriptions)
Room 1102: The Power of Visual Texts
"From Image to Argument: Harnessing the Power of Visual Texts " (Shalle Leeming)
"Writing Captions for New Yorker Cartoons in Pairs: Boosting Student Awareness of Genre and Multimodality" (Casey Manogue)
Room 1104: AI Literacy, Belonging, and Community in Physical and Digital Spaces
"Collaborating in Our Community: Promoting AI Literacy From High School to College" (Guy Krueger)
"Fostering Belonging in the College Writing Classroom" (Lindsay Knisely )
"Building AI Literacy through Team-Based Inquiry" (Lisa Sperber)
4:30pm- Wrap-Up, Cookies, and Feedback