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Conference Schedule
Friday, October 19
7:30 am - 8:30 am Registration and Breakfast OAK ROOM
8:30 am – 11:30 am General Session OAK ROOM
Welcome: Stephen Ruffus, English Associate Dean
TYCA Business: Andy Anderson, TYCA Associate Chair
Keynote Speaker: Ryan R. Goble "The Power of Paradox: Active Learning for
the 21st Century Professor!"
11:30 am-12:30 pm Lunch OAK ROOM
12:40 pm - 2:00 pm Plenary Session 1
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“Redesigning First Year Composition” Angela Clark-Oates, Arizona State
University; Jason Pickavance, Salt Lake Community College; Duane Roen,
Arizona State University; Brittany Stephenson, Salt Lake Community College
STC 221-223
2:10 pm – 3:30 pm Breakout Session 1
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“Garrison Keilor and the Six-Audience Portfolio: Using Embarrassing Moments to
Teach and explore Genre and Audience in First-Year Composition” Jeffrey G.
Howard, Utah State University
“Grammar To, With and By Students” Diantha Smith, Utah State University
STC 213
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“A Conversation about Leadership in a Two-Year College English Department”
Jeff Andelora, Mesa Community College & Stephen Ruffus, Salt Lake
Community College
STC 219
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“Connect and Retain Writing Students by Altering Mindsets and Engaging
Learning” Mr. Alex Arreguin, Mesa Community College & Dr. Leanna Hall, Mesa
Community College
STC 225
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3:40 pm – 5:00 pm Breakout Session 2
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“Making Clarity ‘King’: Enthroning Clear Writing as the Objective of Discourse”
Jacob Thomas, Utah State University
“Two-Year College Faculty Engagement with Professional Organizations and the
Future of English Departments” Christie Toth, University of Michigan & Diné
College
STC 213
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“Samples and Loops: What Modern Music Can Teach Us about Multimodal
Composition Practices and Intellectual Property” Thomas Patrick Henry, PhD
Utah Valley University
“Striving for Incompleteness: In Favor of a Hybridized Complete/Incomplete
Grading System” Michael Kimball, Salt Lake Community College
STC 219
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“The Hybridization of Composition Teachers at the Two-Year College” Chris
Nielson, Glendale Community College & Amanda Murphy, Glendale Community
College
STC 221
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“The Not-So Distant Education – Blended Comp Courses that Rock!” Dr. Alisa
Cooper, Glendale Community College
STC 225
Saturday, October 20
7:30 am – 8:30 am Registration and Breakfast OAK ROOM
8:40 am – 10:00 am Plenary Session 2
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“National TYCA: Policy Advocacy Session Proposal for 2012 Regional TYCA
Conferences” Andy Anderson, TYCA Associate Chair, Johnson County
Community College & Clint Gardner, TYCA West National Representative, Salt
Lake Community College
Oak Room
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10:10 am – 11:30 am Breakout Session 3
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Using the Framework of Success in Postsecondary Writing to Foster Learning”
Angela Clark-Oates, Arizona State University; M. Whitney Olsen, Arizona State
University; Duane Roen, Arizona State University
Oak Room
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“A Thousand Words Worthy: Teaching Students to Write about Graphic Texts”
Brandon Alva, Salt Lake Community College
“Designing a Hybrid English 101 Course: What will it Look Like?” Burke
Sorenson, University of Phoenix
STC 213
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“Kill the Messenger, Keep the Message: A New Way of Conceptualizing the
Beginning Fiction” Robert Lively, Mesa Community College & Mark Maynard,
Truckee Meadows Community College
STC 219
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“Web Accessibility & Captioning Basics” Melissa Helquist, Salt Lake Community
College
AD 226 (Publication Center)
11:40 am – 1 pm Breakout Session 4
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“Inviting Students to the Table: Using a Food Theme to Teach Composition”
Charlotte Howe, Salt Lake Community College
“Meeting Future Challenges Through Innovative Pedagogy: A Proposal for
Integrating Cases into First-Year Writing Courses” Angela Petit, Idaho State
University & Sonja Launspach, Idaho State University
STC 219
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The Future of Basic Writing” Peter Adams, Community College of Baltimore
County
STC 223
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“Infusing Publication into the Curriculum” Lisa Bickmore, Salt Lake Community
College & Kati Lewis, Salt Lake Community College
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AD 226 (Publication Center)
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch OAK ROOM
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm TYCA-West Executive Board Meeting OAK ROOM
Keynote Speaker
Ryan R. Goble began his teaching career as a high school English teacher in Ann
Arbor, MI. He has since taught, consulted and presented for a wide variety of students,
schools and organizations all over the United States. Ryan holds a Master's Degree in
Education and a Bachelor's Degree in English from the University of Michigan. In 2005
Ryan began his doctorate (part-time) at Teachers College Columbia University. During
his four years in New York City he mentored teachers in all disciplines, coordinated
curriculum and collaborated with the entire staff to develop professional learning
communities at Banana Kelly High School in the South Bronx.
Ryan's work has been featured in publications like Teacher Magazine, The Boston
Globe and The Detroit News. He frequently blogs at the Making Curriculum Pop Ning
and has written for publications including the Journal of Staff Development, Journal of
Media Literacy and the New York Times Learning Network. Presently, he’s co-writing
curriculum on climate change and sustainability for NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space
Studies. His first book (co-written with his mother) called Media Circles is due out on
Maupin Press in the summer of 2012.
Ryan has an extensive background in the entertainment industry. He worked in
marketing for Virgin Records, was a DJ at NPR in Detroit and worked at E!
Entertainment Television in Los Angeles. Ryan’s high school students have worked with
people like actors Robin Williams, Julianne Moore, screenwriter William Goldman (The
Princess Bride & All The President’s Men) and director Spike Jonze. Ryan is the
founder of www.mindblue.com, a company that started by creating rock and roll study
guides but now focuses on consulting. He also shares many exciting resources with
educators through his online social network with over 6,000 educators all over the globe
at "Making Curriculum Pop" mcpopmb.ning.com.
Since 1999 Mr. Goble has been training teachers in active learning, “better practices,”
and new media in classes and workshops all over the country. In 2009 Mr. Goble and
his wife moved home to Chicago where he presently adjuncts in the education
departments of Aurora and Roosevelt Universities and consults for local community
colleges and school districts. In 2010 Mr. Goble completed a six-year term on the
National Council of Teachers of English's (NCTE) Media Commission and became copresident of that organization in 2011. He plans to complete his dissertation on
“Secondary Teachers and the Uses Media" by Winter 2013.
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Exhibitors and Sponsors OAK ROOM
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Macmillan (Bedford/St. Martin’s)
McGraw Hill
Pearson
Salt Lake Community College
SLCC Department of English
Thank you for your support!
Map of SLCC’s Taylorsville/Redwood Campus
All conference proceedings will take place in either the STC (Student Center) or the AD
(Admnistration Building).
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COMING ATTRACTIONS:
TYCA-West 2013 will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada!
The theme for next year’s conference is “THE EVOLVING CLASSROOM: Surviving the
New Generation Gap.”
Today's students have been tweeting, chatting, texting, and social networking since
childhood. The expectation is that they will naturally interact with technology. Many, if
not most, college educators are digital immigrants trying to keep up with the ways in
which the pedagogical teaching paradigm has been dramatically transformed within a
short period of time. How do we shift from the blackboard to the tweet while not
negating our ability to remain effective teachers? What are methods that we use in the
modern classroom that could help our colleagues join us in the 21st Century? What are
the drawbacks of not shifting into the new era? Do you know anyone who still uses
overheads? How do students react to the shift, or lack thereof? We hope to address
these questions as well as other effective teaching methods in our TYCA-West 2013
Conference in Las Vegas. Please join us for a fun, methods and materials-sharing
conference! We look forward to seeing you here!
More details about submitting proposals for the 2013 conference in Vegas are
coming soon. Please check the TYCA-West website (http://tycawest.org/) soon
for details.
Note: Please excuse our absence from TYCA this year. With NCTE and CCCC both
coming to our fair city in the next six months, we are all very busy and excited. Hopefully
we will run into some of you at one or the other of these great conferences, and maybe
we will get some wonderful new ideas to make the TYCA 2013 conference in Las Vegas
the best ever!