A year-long CUNY Faculty Development Seminar
(2003-4) to help faculty develop writing-intensive courses utilizing the WriteSite
organized by Bill Bernhardt (College of Staten Island) and Nora Eisenberg
(LaGuardia Community College). The Seminar is open to faculty throughout the
CUNY system.
To register or for more
information contact us at:
bernhardt@postbox.csi.cuny.edu Ngeisenb@aol.com
Please be sure to include a
valid e-mail address in all of your correspondence with us. We will use it to
confirm your registration.
If you feel more
comfortable talking with Bill or Nora, please call 718 982-3671 to leave your
phone number and suggest a convenient time for us to call you back.
Who We Are
Nora Eisenberg was one of
the founders of the WriteSite. For the
past decade she has directed the CUNY Faculty Publications Program, a peer
mentoring program to support faculty in writing and publishing towards
tenure. She is a novelist and the
co-author of several texts both composition and writing across the curriculum.
Bill Bernhardt has been a member of the WriteSite Team since 1999. He has also been active in online instruction
and faculty training in the use of Blackboard. He is the former co-editor of
the Journal of Basic Writing and author of two books on writing.
What We Are About
The CUNY WriteSite is an online
resource for writing across the curriculum developed by CUNY faculty and
graduate students. It is equally well suited to traditional, web-enhanced,
hybrid and fully asynchronous courses with a significant writing component.
The Site is used by thousands of people
all over the world. Still, many faculty and students at CUNY are not fully
aware of how it can support writing-intensive courses. Our purpose in offering
this Faculty Development Seminar is to expand the number of users within CUNY
and, we hope, create a cadre of enthusiastic users who will share their
experience and expertise with colleagues on their own campuses throughout the
University.
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No one should hesitate to participate because he/she is unfamiliar with Blackboard or videoconferencing. We will provide one-on-one mentoring for anyone who feels technologically challenged.
Program Information
Bill
and Nora will introduce participants to the WriteSite and mentor them as they
integrate the WriteSite into syllabi and course materials for the course(s)
they are currently teaching or will teach in the Fall. The collaborative seminar will also support
actual course implementation of the WriteSite, with faculty members mentoring
each other as they use new syllabi and course materials.
Click
here to visit the WriteSite