By Kimberlee Gillis-Bridges, PWR 182 Faculty Mentor and Stephanie Kerschbaum, PWR Director We wanted to take the opportunity to showcase two courses that provide significant opportunities for students to engage multimodal composing: Henry Christopher’s English 131 (Composition) course, which includes an assignment sequence centered on zine-making, and BrittNEY Frantece’s English 381 (Advanced Composition) course, which focused on comedy writing. The syllabi,… Continue Reading In the Classroom

by Molly Porter You might assume that jaded college students are beyond the days of field trips, but think again! UW’s campus is full of ample opportunities for engagement beyond the classroom. Consider getting your students to learn more immersively with:  The Indigenous Walking Tour: This beautifully-narrated, student-created tour has so many great resources for understanding the environmental, political, and rhetorical… Continue Reading In the Classroom

Last Spring the PWR ran an awesome workshop on equity-oriented assessment (check out the vlog recap here). One important thing Gin and Anselma brought up in that workshop is the idea that grading is not the only form of assessment. Summative assessment is when we give students final grades or grades and feedforward on written assignments. In these instances, we are… Continue Reading In the Classroom

As we kick off another exciting quarter here in the PWR, I want to walk you through an assignment sequence that I’ve had particular success with in English 131. Foregrounding my Teaching Commitments I want to start by giving a quick overview of some of my main commitments when teaching. I always like to base my course design in a genre-centered… Continue Reading In the Classroom

In this vlog we discuss the EWP’s recent workshop series on Equity-Oriented Assessment and walk through using the canvas rubric tool.  

Hi Everyone! Welcome to the first episode of Compendium’s companion podcast. In this episode, myself, Missy Gonzalez-Garduno, and a handful of other instructors, Jacob Wilson, Micaela Chavez, and Angel Garduno, got together for a roundtable discussion. We talked about the various challenges we’ve faced in the last few years of teaching, the importance of building teaching community, and the resources that… Continue Reading In the Classroom

By Sara Lovett On April 5 2019, the UW Libraries and CIC co-sponsored an event on teaching with board games, facilitated by then CIC AD Sara Lovett. In this post, she shares takeaways from the event and thoughts for how you might bring three example boardgames into your classroom! Why Teach with Board Games?: Event Takeaways Games are ideologically-rich, and they… Continue Reading In the Classroom

Hi all, I wanted to ‌introduce myself as the incoming Assistant Director for Computer Integrated Courses. My name is Missy González-Garduño, I am a second year PhD student on the literature and culture track. The picture on this post is my husband Angel and I on a gloomy day, standing in front of Drumheller fountain. Angel is also a second year… Continue Reading In the Classroom

By Alycia Gilbert A well-built and easy to navigate course Canvas can be an extremely useful tool for your composition class. Especially if you’re teaching a hybrid course or navigating a pivot to online teaching, having a solid Canvas site can support your students—particularly in finding materials, assignments, and deadlines. In March 2022, we held a Canvas building session to share… Continue Reading In the Classroom

By Marina Bydalek I designed this genre awareness activity as a primer for my class’s deep-dive into genre, genre analysis, and genre research. You can think of it like a check-up—we all have genre awareness, but we still need to dust off that shelf in our brain every once in a while. Because of this, I place this activity at the… Continue Reading In the Classroom

By Alycia Gilbert Note: This post was originally developed for the Winter 2021 CIC Workshop and published to the CIC Blog; however, I thought it was especially relevant now, as students begin their second assignment sequences and instructors begin planning their requirements for the portfolio. Even if your course materials don’t lean too heavily into multimodal composition, this post raises applicable… Continue Reading In the Classroom

By Alycia Gilbert Sometimes filling out an entire lesson plan can feel like you’ve been asked to complete a puzzle without knowing where to find all of the pieces, especially during your first year of teaching. How can you create structure and engagement during active work time in your class meetings? How can you turn synchronous or asynchronous time into valuable… Continue Reading In the Classroom

This post was adapted by Alycia Gilbert from IWP Director Dr. Megan Callow’s and CIC Director Kimberlee Gillis-Bridges’s talks at the Fall 2021 CIC workshop: “Strategies and Technologies for Pandemic Classrooms.” A recording of the full workshop, as well as the transcript used to create this post, can be access by UW instructors here. During the Fall 2021 CIC workshop, the… Continue Reading In the Classroom

On November 10th 2021, the CIC hosted a workshop through the EWP’s Teacher Talk series on strategies and technologies for pandemic classrooms. As part of this workshop, we shared tools that can be integrated into EWP/IWP courses to promote active learning, especially in masked classroom environments. As we wrap up Fall Quarter and begin thinking forward to Winter, here are a… Continue Reading In the Classroom

Note: This post was written in 2018 as a short blog post, but it has been a bit more fleshed out with a few more thoughts and resources linked in. I want to talk about something that I’ve been reflecting on my work as a writing/composition teacher especially in light of the 2016 post-election climate in the U.S: the way I’ve… Continue Reading In the Classroom

The EWP ADs have put together this list of teaching artifacts related to the Portfolio, including presenting the portfolio, understanding outcomes, conferencing prep, writing reflections and other topics. We’ve done our best to add framing and ways for you to think through each material offered. If you want to grab any of these for yourself, please make a copy in Google… Continue Reading In the Classroom

Ryan Youell presented at Teacher Talk a series of resources and insights exploring how to integrate film and filmic analysis into the composition classroom. The resources provided below can be used in any composition classroom (111, 131, 182, etc…) and can be downloaded by clicking on the links below. Where do I start? Just as picking an essay or book for… Continue Reading In the Classroom

by Belle Kim In this post, I want to share a workshop I led in 2017 following Trump’s election and the ensuing, urgent call for more active conversations and mobilizations within our department and program around issues of race, equity, access, power, and critical pedagogy. I’m attaching a detailed description of the workshop along with materials used in the hopes that… Continue Reading In the Classroom