“Writing Center Crossroads: Community, Conflict, Change”
2007 Midwest Writing Centers Association
24th Annual Regional Conference
Kauffman Foundation Conference Center
October 25-27, 2007, Kansas City
Pre-Conference Collaboration
As noted in the call for proposals for the 2007 MWCA Regional Conference, we seek to encourage not only traditional presentation formats, but also collaborative projects and activities with which participants might interact throughout the conference.
As a means of "priming the pump" for such collaboration, we have included a handful of collaborative opportunities within the conference web site, including the following:
Conference Wiki: Feel free to utilize the wiki as a means of generating discussion, initiating and constructing collaborative projects, or sharing your own process as you reflect upon conference themes and prepare conference presentations. We invite you to contribute to the following projects already underway on the wiki.
Literary Worlds: This collaborative project will culminate in a roundtable session at the conference in Kansas City. Participants are invited to enter a discussion of literary places or settings and the impact they might have on our thinking about writing center work.
Scenes from the Crossroads: Sparked by the opening montage on this site, we invite you to submit your own "scenes at the crossroads" by submitting images and brief snippets of text related to the geographic, social, economic, or academic crossroads surrounding your own writing center.
Connotations of "Crossroads": Contribute to an exploration of the connotations and/or allusions surrounding the word crossroads.
Postcards: Inspired by the popular website PostSecret, we invite you to submit a "postcard" related to issues surrounding the writing center crossroads.
del.icio.us: Participants may use this social bookmarking site to tag (i.e., bookmark) any site related to the concerns of the conference. By tagging a site with "mwca07," one makes that site accessible to other conference participants.
Platial: Platial is a mapping site that allows the creation and sharing of custom made maps, allowing us the opportunity to collaborate on a list of local attractions in the Kansas City area.
Please visit the links above to learn more about these resources and how they might be utilized for the conference. We hope these resources will generate a conversation that extends and enriches the conference experience. |
