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Rosemary Feal started the topic Sample Common Core tests in the forum
Common Core Standards Initiative Discussion Group on MLA Commons 11 years, 10 months agoPlease see this story on testing and the Common Core. There is a link to sample tests.
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David Laurence replied to the topic narrative complexity in the forum
Common Core Standards Initiative Discussion Group on MLA Commons 11 years, 10 months agoParticipants in this discussion of text complexity may be interested in a research report, Using Multiple Sources of Information in Establishing Text Complexity, by Elfrieda H. Hiebert of TextProject, Inc. University of California, Santa Cruz.
The TextProject also has a Web page devoted to the topic of text complexity in the context of the Common…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months ago
@rfeal Would you consider reading a two page section of Joe Berry’s classic, Reclaiming the Ivory Tower? Here is the sign up spreadsheet@ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnRu6M-k0cvidEVNUktzUGtBUUlDRFJQNHZKYzEtYkE#gid=0
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Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoPLEASE Consider reading a chapter of Joe Berry’s book about organizing contingent workers. 12 sections still need readers! Collaboration! Once you sign up, you can write to the organizers (email on the spreadsheet) for further instructions. It’s easy with audacity, a recording program easily downloadable.…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoPLEASE Consider reading a chapter of Joe Berry’s book about organizing contingent workers. 12 sections still need readers! Collaboration! Once you sign up, you can write to the organizers (email on the spreadsheet) for further instructions. It’s easy with audacity, a recording program easily downloadable.
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Stacey Lee Donohue started the topic CFP: MLA15 Teaching Memoir in the forum
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoReading Memory: Approaches to Teaching the Memoir: MLA 2015 Vancouver BC
Stacey Lee Donohue/CCHA Allied Member of the MLA
Autobiography and memoir have become canonical staples, but also contested sites for discussing the boundaries of fictional and non-fictional self-representation. Presentations invited exploring the…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue started the topic CFP MLA15: Teaching Writing in Context in the forum
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months ago<b>Writing in Context: Content Based First Year Composition (MLA 2015 Jan 8-11, Vancouver, BC)</b>
Stacey Lee Donohue/Discussion Group on the Two Year College/MLA
While composition is often a standalone course, some colleges offer it as discipline-specific writing, either as a linked course or integrated into a learning…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue posted an update in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoPlease check the Two Year College Discussion Group Forum and Blog pages for new Calls for Papers for MLA 2015!
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Stacey Lee Donohue started the topic CCHA (MLA Allied organization) CFP for MLA15 in the forum
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months ago<b>Reading Memory: Approaches to Teaching the Memoir: MLA 2015 Vancouver BC</b>
Stacey Lee Donohue/CCHA Allied Member of the MLA
contact email: sdonohue@cocc.edu
Autobiography and memoir have become canonical staples, but also contested sites for discussing the boundaries of fictional and non-fictional self-representation. Presentations…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue started the topic Two Year College Discussion Group CFP for MLA 15 in the forum
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months ago<b>Writing in Context: Content Based First Year Composition (MLA 2015 Jan 8-11, Vancouver, BC)</b>
Stacey Lee Donohue/Discussion Group on the Two Year College/MLA
contact email:
While composition is often a standalone course, some colleges offer it as discipline-specific writing, either as a linked course or integrated into a…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue replied to the topic Hiring in the forum
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 12 years agoWonderful news, Elizabeth! Community Colleges in Oregon, too, have openings for full time, tenure track faculty in English. After years of double digit enrollment growth, and not enough of an increase in tenure track faculty, we are playing catch up.
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic ADE Bulletin contains five or six articles about contingent and PTF in the forum
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 12 years agoI Encourage folks to read this important issue of the ADE bulletin, and contribute to the conversation about the issues raised by posting in this forum!
Here’s the link:
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic ADE Bulletin contains five or six articles about part time faculty in the forum
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 12 years agoFive or six articles in the current issue of the ADE Bulletin address important statistical and other issues related to PTF. Bayta Weinbaum, Karen Lentz Madison, Sue Doe, Jack Longmate and other contingent and precarious faculty members, or their allies, have written excellent analyses of the current status of PTF in the academy. We would like…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic Election of new members! Next Year's Panel ideas? in the forum
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 12 years agoVirginia Cooper joins us from Montana, and Lee Skallerup Bessette from Kentucky! We are overjoyed to have new members join the committee!
If you would like to work with the committee as a non-member of the Executive committee, please use this forum to direct us to initiatives that you believe will be useful for MLA 2015 in Vancouver, or during…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue posted an update in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month ago“NOMINATIONS DUE BY DEC 23 for the Two Year College Discussion Group
The Executive Committee for the Two Year College Discussion Group encourages members of this MLA Commons group to nominate themselves or some other community college faculty member (full or part time) to serve on the executive committee. The term is four years. The group is…[Read more]
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