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Gillie Bolton -- For Dr Gillie Bolton, the self-educative power of reflective and reflexive writing has been inspirational: the focus of her research and lecturing practice for nearly 30 years. Author of Reflective Practice Writing and Professional Development 3rd Edition (2010; www.uk.sagepub.com/bolton), author or editor of seven other books on similar subjects (all in print, or the process of publication), and many papers including several in The Lancet. Gillie writes daily for herself, works as a freelance consultant, is a devoted grannie, and lives in the Hope Valley Derbyshire and Bloomsbury London.
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Reflective and Reflexive Writing to Inspire ePortfolios
"Reflective and reflexive writing can help make things clearer in the head, get things off the chest, express what’s in the heart, at the same time as keeping a faithful record; it is therefore a deeply effective way to communicate creatively and confidentially both with the self, and with others. Dr Gillie Bolton will give the what, why and how of these straightforward and enjoyable processes, which require no previous writing experience, knowledge or skills, and are ideal for eportfolios. Her exposition and examples will clarify and illuminate the process and explore its implications."
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Barbara Cambridge -- director of the Washington, DC office for the National Council of Teachers of English, responsible for governmental relations, advocacy, and alliance building. She co-leads the Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research, which constitutes sixty campuses in five countries doing research on eportfolio learning and assessing. She serves on the Board of CAEP, the new consolidated accrediting body for teacher preparation programs; and provides leadership within the Connected Learning Coalition, a DC-based partnership of disciplinary and technology professional associations. As a member of the Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA) consultant/evaluator service, she collaborates on the evaluation of writing programs at colleges and universities across the country. She is a Board member of the Washington Internship Institute and serves as a consulting editor for Change magazine.
Barbara is past president of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and of CWPA, director of the Campus Program for the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and commissioner for the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, a regional accrediting body. Before going to Washington in 1996, she was professor of English at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, where, at various times, she directed the writing program, the writing center, and writing-across-the-campus and where she served as associate dean of the faculties, leading general education reform and assessment activities for the university. For the state of Indiana she served on the Higher Education Commission as the first faculty member in that capacity.
Barbara’s latest public writing includes edited books on electronic portfolios, letters to lawmakers on behalf of literacy coalitions, legislative language for bills concerning literacy, and talks like this one for AEEBBL in which she thinks aloud about how all of us can influence public policy in a positive way.
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Peter Elbow -- Professor of English at UMass Amherst. He directed the Writing Program there, and earlier at SUNY Stony Brook. He also taught at M.I.T., Franconia College, and Evergreen State College. He has degrees from Williams College, Oxford University, and Brandeis University.
He has written various books about writing, most recently Everyone Can Write: Essays Toward a Hopeful Theory of Writing and Teaching Writing (2000). Others: Oppositions in Chaucer (1975); Embracing Contraries (1986), a book about teaching and learning; What is English? (1990), a book about the profession. Writing About Media: Teaching Writing, Teaching Media (2008), published as a DVD from Media Education Foundation.
With Pat Belanoff, he wrote a textbook, A Community of Writers and shorter version Being a Writer (2001). A short section is published separately, Sharing and Responding, as a pamphlet to help students with peer feedback.
He has a new book, Vernacular Eloquence: What Has Speech Got that Writing Needs? (Oxford University Press, 2012). In it he explores informal unplanned speaking and speech to show the many linguistic and rhetorical features that will benefit even the most careful writing.
Here are two recent articles: “A Unilateral Grading Contract to Improve Learning and Teaching” (2009); “Freewriting and Free Speech: A Pragmatic Perspective” (co-authored with Janet Bean).
Everyone Can Write was given the James Britton Award by the Conference on English Education; NCTE gave him the James Squire Award “for his transforming influence and lasting intellectual contribution”; and in 2007 CCCC gave him the Exemplar Award for “representing the highest ideals of scholarship, teaching, and service.” He has served on MLA’s Executive Council and NCTE’s Executive Committee.
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Technology, Writing, and Spoken Language
"This will be an interactive, experiential workshop where we experiment with a lot of activities. I can’t show this crowd anything about technology; they probably know more than I. But I will be showing them the role that technology has been playing in moving writing in the direction of spoken language---and my main argument and the activities will be designed to show why this is a good thing." (Monday morning, July 16)
Also look for Peter Elbow in a "Conversations with..." session during the conference.
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 John Richards -- a senior executive in education, technology and media with extensive experience in business development, strategic planning, market research, and developing and launching award-winning products. John is Founder and President of Consulting Services for Education, Inc. (CS4Ed). CS4Ed works with publishers, developers, and educational organizations, as they negotiate the rapidly changing education marketplace to improve business-planning processes, to find funding to help schools purchase products and services, and to develop, evaluate and refine products and services.
He is also Adjunct Faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education teaching Entrepreneurial Approaches to the Education Market.
John was President of the JASON Foundation, GM of Turner Learning, the educational arm of Turner Broadcasting, and GM of the Educational Technologies Division of Bolt Beranek and Newman that launched the award winning Co-NECT school design.
Over the years John has served on boards for a variety of educational groups including NECC; Cable in the Classroom; Software Information Industry Association (SIIA), Education Market section; and Association of Educational Publishers (AEP).
John's projects have won him numerous awards including two Golden Lamps and several CODIEs, as well as several EMMY nominations. He is an internationally recognized leader in merging media and technology with educational needs and has taught at M.I.T and the University of Georgia. He is a respected keynote speaker and is the author/editor of three books, over 90 articles, and has been responsible for the publication of over 1,000 educational products. He recently completed the 2010 U.S. Educational Technology Market: PreK-12 report for the Software and Information Industry Association, and is currently working with Chris Dede (Eds.) on Digital Teaching Platforms, Teachers College Press (in press).
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Todd Zakrajsek -- Executive Director of the Center for Faculty Excellence at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was previously the Inaugural Director of the Faculty Center for Innovative Teaching at Central Michigan University and the founding Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Southern Oregon University, where he also taught in the psychology department as a tenured associate professor. Todd also annually directs two National Lilly Conferences on Teaching and Learning, one at Traverse City, Michigan, and the second in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Zakrajsek received his Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Ohio University. He has published and presented widely on the topic of student learning, including workshops and conference keynote addresses in 37 states and 6 countries.
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Overcoming Apathy and Creating Excitement in the Classroom
What can instructors do to facilitate learning when they encounter students who seem uninterested and even apathetic toward course content and assignments? Part of the responsibility for learning belongs to students, but as faculty, we can find new ways to motivate, inspire, and maybe even cajole students to learn. This session will demonstrate and explain how instructors can make classroom learning, perhaps one of the most artificial learning settings, a more meaningful experience for students. The presenter uses theories of learning and motivation as a basis for creating strategies to increase student engagement in course content and class sessions. Participants will have an opportunity to try out and  experience first-hand some of these techniques. Topics covered in this session include a discussion of active learning, motivation, collaborative learning, metacognition, learning theory, and interpersonal communication.
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