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Conference Schedule
Friday, October 19
7:30 am - 8:30 am Registration & Breakfast OAK ROOM
8:30 am - 11:30 am General Session OAK ROOM
SLCC Welcome: Stephen Ruffus, Associate Dean, SLCC English Department
TYCA-West Welcome: Louise Bown, Local Arrangements Chair
National TYCA Business: Andy Anderson, TYCA
Conference Notes & Keynote Introduction: Stephanie Dowdle Maenhardt,
Program Chair
Keynote Address: Ryan R. Goble "The Power of Paradox: Active Learning for
the 21st Century Professor!"
11:40 am - 1:00 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
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch OAK ROOM
2:10 pm - 3:30 pm Breakout Session 1
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“Garrison Keillor 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
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“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” Alex Arreguin, Mesa Community College & Leanna Hall, Mesa
Community College
STC 225
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
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“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, Utah
Valley University
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“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!” Alisa
Cooper, Glendale Community College
STC 225
Saturday, October 20
7:30 am - 8:30 am Registration & Breakfast OAK ROOM
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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 & Clint Gardner, TYCAWest National Representative
OAK Room
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
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“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 Workshop” 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 (the AD Building is located east of the fountain outside the STC)
11:40 am – 1:00 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
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“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
AD 226 (the AD Building is located east of the fountain outside the STC)
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
Ryan 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 from
Maupin Press in Summer 2012.
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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
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 Ryan has been training teachers in active learning, “better practices,” and
new media in classes and workshops all over the country. In 2009 Ryan 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 Ryan completed a six-year term on the National Council of Teachers of
English's (NCTE) Media Commission and became co-president of that organization in
2011. He plans to complete his dissertation on “Secondary Teachers and the Uses
Media" by Winter 2013.
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!
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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
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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!
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!
More details about submitting proposals for the 2013 conference in Vegas are
coming soon. Check the TYCA-West website (http://tycawest.org/) for details.
-------------------Map of SLCC’s Taylorsville/Redwood Campus
All conference proceedings will take place in either the STC (Student Center) or the AD
(Administration Building).