October 22nd: UMaine High School Writing Center Day

UMaine High School
Writing Center Day 2008

Wednesday, October 22nd, 8:30-noon
Buchanan Alumni House
University of Maine


8:00-8:30am… Registration
Pick up packets and purchase t-shirts ($5.00)

8:30-9:45am… Poster Session
(Group A 8:30-9:05; Group B 9:10-9:45)
–Each visiting school or writing center staff will sponsor three to five posters with two facilitators at each poster. The “posters” (e.g., traditional 20x30” poster boards, laptop presentation, puppet show, tableaux) will focus on a single issue relating to secondary school writing centers. Someone who comes up to the poster should be able to capture the essence of the idea in one-to-two minutes, ask questions, and then move on. Let’s say 4-5 minutes at a poster. The following are a few examples of “poster” ideas:

o Strategies for working with an unhappy writer (perhaps a writer who was forced to come to the writing center)
o Advertising the writing center’s services in your school
o Revision: tips on sentence combining, language for talking with clients

9:45-9:55… Snack Break

10:00-11:15am… Workshops
–Three, 20-minute concurrent workshops (five minute passing time) featuring:

Absolutely Write! The Erskine Academy Writing Center
Brewer High School Writing Center
The Nokomis Writing Center

Conference participants will be divided into three groups and rotate through the workshops.

11:20-11:45am… Writing Center Panel with UMaine Writing Center Tutors

11:45-12noon… Final Q&A, conference feedback forms

12noon – 1:30pm… Lunch
Lunch on your own at the UMaine Union and optional tours of the UMaine Writing Center and campus

For more information contact Professor Rich Kent (rich.kent@maine.edu)
To register contact Heather Pullen (heather.pullen@umit.maine.edu)