CLEA Webinars

We’ve had our first webinar -- by all accounts an unmitigated success!!   The door is open for a series of these . . .   Please come forth with your ideas!  Here’s what’s on the burner: 

April 30th (Friday)

    1:30 PM (East Coast reckoning)

✥  ePortfolios and Learning Communities

Our next CLEA Webinar will use the University of the Arts’ proposed ideas for establishing “Learning Communities” in Fall ’10 as the basis of a presentation and discussion.  We’ll use Adobe Connect once more -- and coordinate with a conference call (via telephone) to ensure perfect audio!!

60 minute meeting: 

   1:30 PM East Coast,

   12:30 AM Central

   11:30 AM  Mountain

    10:30 AM West Coast

NEXT UP!  (under discussion):

✥  Academic Challenges for International ESL Students in Music and Art Schools

Addressing language issues  unique to our international, generation 1.5, and transnational students. 

November 12th (Thursday)

✥ Unifying and Assessing Curriculum: Teaching Writing at University of the Arts

Session Presenter:

 

      Christa DiMarco

      Director of Writing at The University of the Arts

      Philadelphia, PA  

For our first CLEA Webinar, Christa DiMarco, the new Director of Writing in the Liberal Art Division at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, explained how she unified the First-Year Writing classes by developing course objectives and a curriculum that outlines the reading and writing processes of academic writing. She also spoke about the assessment project she designed to study the reading and writing levels of first-year writing students. Christa presented her materials for about 40 minutes, and then responded to questions.  She is posting materials for those who are interested in learning more!