Spring Forum Speaker Announced

Fri., Jan 11

The Spring 2013 Forum on "Learning, Writing, and Technology" will be held on Friday, January 11, 2013, in EN A120. The day will begin with a continental breakfast at 8:30 a.m., followed by a luncheon at 1 p.m. in EN B121. Three breakout workshops on teaching, writing, and technology will be offered in the afternoon (2-3:30 p.m.) for interested faculty.

The keynote speaker is Mike Palmquist (right), associate vice provost for learning and teaching, professor of English, and University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Colorado State University, where he directs the university's Institute for Learning and Teaching. His scholarly interests include writing across the curriculum, the effects of computer and network technologies on writing instruction, and new approaches to scholarly publishing.

His work has appeared in journals including College English, Computers and Composition, Written Communication, Writing Program Administration, Marketing Education Review, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Kairos, and Social Forces, as well as in edited collections. Since 1992, he has coordinated the development of Writing@CSU (http://writing.colostate.edu) and its Web-based learning environment, the Writing Studio. He is also founding editor of the WAC Clearinghouse (http://wac.colostate.edu) and academic writing, a refereed journal focusing on interdisciplinary perspectives on communication across the curriculum, which in 2004 merged with Language and Learning Across the Disciplines to form Across the Disciplines.

Palmquist is the author of Joining the Conversation: Writing in College and Beyond (2010), The Bedford Researcher (fourth edition, 2012), Designing Writing (2005), The Bedford Bibliographer (a Web-based citation tool released in 2006), the Bedford Research Room (a Web site for students and instructors), and the software program Research Assistant/ HyperFolio for English, all published by Bedford/St. Martin's. He is co-author of Transitions: Teaching Writing in Computer-Supported and Traditional Classrooms, published in 1998 by Ablex, and co-author of Writing with a Computer, published in 1999 by Allyn and Bacon.

In 2004, he was the recipient of the Charles Moran Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field, awarded by Computers and Composition. In 2006, he was presented with the Outstanding Technology Innovator by the CCCC Committee on Computers in Composition and Communication.

Those interested in attending the forum are asked to RSVP by Monday, January 7, 2013, using the online registration form found here.