Technology

WIth Anthony Weston, Terry Tomasek and Ryan Kirk

With Pam Kiser, Ann Cahill, and Rich Mihans

Today's students and alumni can tap increasingly varied technologies to support their writing across the university, in internships, and in post-graduation careers. Five ENG 110 faculty also want them to have critical strategies for using these available technologies to enhance their writing processes, their written products, and their research.

The Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning's three-year Institutional Leadership Program concluded this month with the publication of a book authored in part by Elon University faculty and students, as well as an international colloquium in Bloomington, Indiana.

The Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL) is pleased to name four faculty CATL Scholars for 2010-2012. The purpose of the CATL Scholars program is to cultivate scholarly and innovative teaching and learning at Elon University. CATL Scholars will receive funding for two years to develop, implement, and assess projects intended to transform student learning.

David Neville, assistant professor of German and director of language learning technologies, published "Cybertext redux: Using DGBL to teach L2 vocabulary, reading and culture," which will appear in the forthcoming issue of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL).

Frances Ward-Johnson, associate professor in the School of Communications, presented research on blogging in public relations classes at the 2009 International Association of Online Communicators Annual Conference held Oct.1-2 in Washington, D.C.