Conference Wiki

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 that participants might interact with 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 a wiki. A wiki is a kind of free-form website that is easily edited by anyone with the wiki password: mwca07.  While only those
with the password can contribute to or edit the conference wiki, any visitor can read the content. Edits are done in plain text and don't require learning fancy or complex codes like HTML.  

More specifically, the wiki is available to anyone interested in the 2007 MWCA Regional Conference and issues related to its theme: "Writing Center Crossroads: Community, Conflict, Change." 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 hope such opportunities will generate pre-conference collaboration and exchange that will extend and enrich the conference experience.

The following projects already underway on the wiki. We look forward to your contributions.

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.

Click here to visit the home page of the 2007 MWCA Conference Wiki or click on any of the headings above to visit specific projects already underway.