Tag: brittainfellows

  • My Poster for SAMLA 2013: The Brittain Fellowship’s DevLab: Space, Resources, Expertise, and Collaboration

    My DevLab Poster.
    My DevLab Poster.

    This year, Georgia Tech’s Writing and Communication Program and its Brittain Fellows had a strong presence at the annual South Atlantic Modern Language Association meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.

    I presented a poster on the program’s R&D unit, DevLab. To compose the poster, I took a panoramic photo of DevLab’s main space (we also have an external recording booth). My students and fellow Brittain Fellows are pictured doing work and collaborating at various events over the past few months.

    Standing next to my poster in the Buckhead Marriott.
    Standing next to my poster in the Buckhead Marriott.

    We also had posters on the Communication Center, our pedagogical research, and our scholarly research. Here’s a list of all posters from the official program:

    10. Georgia Institute of Technology Brittain Fellowship,

    Poster Series I

    The Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Georgia Institute of Technology

    a. Jason Ellis, DevLab: Research and Development Lab Facility

    b. CommLab: Tutoring Center for Multimodal Communication

    11. Georgia Institute of Technology Brittain Fellowship, Poster Series II

    WOVEN: Multimodal Communication in the Classroom

    a. Joy Bracewell

    b. Jennifer Lux

    c. Julia Munro

    12. Georgia Institute of Technology Brittain Fellowship, Poster Series III

    Intersections between Scholarship and Pedagogy

    a. Aaron Kashtan

    b. Jennifer Orth-Veillon

    c. Aron Pease

    13. Georgia Institute of Technology Brittain Fellowship, Poster Series IV

    Changing Higher Education

    a. Mirja Lobnik, World Englishes Committee

    b. Multiple Presenters, Curriculum Innovation Committee

    c. Arts Initiatives Committee

    Besides participating in the poster session, I also took notes from N. Katherine Hayles’ plenary lecture on Friday afternoon. I will post my notes from that talk here soon.

    Next year, I will propose a paper for SAMLA and hopefully present an updated version of the DevLab poster. See you there!

  • Georgia Tech’s Celebrating Teaching Day 2013

    My poster and I.
    My poster and I.

    This morning, Georgia Tech’s Center for the Enhancement of Learning (CETL) hosted the annual Celebrating Teaching Day.

    We began with a poster session that showcased pedagogies and assignments from across campus.

    A number of Brittain Fellows had their posters on display and we were there in force to talk about our teaching of communication as rhetorical and multimodal (WOVEN = written, oral, visual, electronic, and nonverbal). I presented my poster on, “Writing the Brain: Composition and Neuroscience” [you may view it here–with thanks to my student Jinming Hu for giving me permission to share his work from class].

    Fellow Britts: Olga Menagarishvili, Mollie Barnes, Emily Kane, and Iuliu Ratiu
    Fellow Britts: Olga Menagarishvili, Mollie Barnes, Emily Kane, and Iuliu Ratiu

    We were able to share teaching ideas and techniques with others from the Georgia Tech community.

    Emily Kane explaining her assignments.
    Emily Kane explaining her assignments.

    The poster session was very well attended by people from across campus. The posters demonstrated the innovative teaching taking place at Georgia Tech.

    Lots of visitors and lots of posters at Celebrating Teaching Day, 2013.
    Lots of visitors and lots of posters at Celebrating Teaching Day, 2013.

    After the poster session, we were treated to lunch, an awards ceremony, remarks by President Bud Petersen, and finally, a presentation by Dr. Derek Bruff of Vanderbilt University on “Social Pedagogies.”

    Derek Bruff's Social Pedagogies Presentation.
    Derek Bruff’s Social Pedagogies Presentation.