Welcome to Writing 1!
Please use the Storytelling & Communications Template introduced in Session 3 to tell us about yourself, why you’re interested in this project, and get to know your fellow team members.
A bit about our team:
Elise Takehana has wide past experience building digital archive exhibits and websites that document regional histories and local writers, which will be helpful in producing a digital book.
Diego Ubiera has been a campus leader in education justice and diversity and inclusion at Fitchburg State University through the Center for Teaching and Learning and a grant-funded mentorship program for Hispanic male students.
Jennie Snow has previous experience developing an OER anthology with students in a literature course.
Some of our main motivators:
- Work collaboratively to create a resource that collects and organizes a lot of the work we already do while remaining flexible enough to be responsive to variation in our courses.
- Introduce an updated framework for first-year writing that can be put into practice within our department
- Create resources that make student experiences in first-year writing engaging, encouraging, empowering, and educational – practical development of skills AND interesting content, sense of possibility and purpose in educational goals
- Address the friction of institutional practices of prescriptive writing instruction