Writing the World
This webinar explores how a student-managed daily writing practice, within and beyond the classroom, transforms teaching and learning in composition and literature classes. Learn how daily writing can help students write across disciplines, polish critical and creative thinking, become empowered, and live with more intention.
Learning Outcomes:
- Learn the value of low-stakes writing assignments.
- Design assignments, rubrics, and modules using daily writing practice.
- Learn how to implement low-stakes writing as part of the foundation for high-stakes writing projects.
Resident of the multiverse and Las Vegas, Dr. Karen Laing was born in Kingston, Jamaica. She moved with her family to New York at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. She has traveled widely, studying topics ranging from the Arab-Israeli conflict in Israel and Egypt to Senegalese dance in Paris, where she also taught conversational English. During her first 15 years in higher education, she taught Interdisciplinary & Holocaust Studies in Massachusetts, served as Poet-in-Residence in the Young at Arts program of the National Endowment for the Arts, and was coordinator of a recruitment and retention program for minorities in Math and Engineering Sciences at North Shore Community College. She currently teaches Composition, Preparatory Composition, Haiku, Black, Migrant and World Literatures, and Academic and Life Success courses at the College of Southern Nevada. Several of her haiku have been published in Sandstone and Silver: An Anthology of Nevada Poets.
Please Note:
Only those attending the LIVE webinar will receive a certificate of attendance. Thank you!
My Life… I will like to be called Kelly, I hope to get knowledge more information on creative writing.
I find writing creatively outside of corporate grant writing is cathartic for me. I wrote for 2.5 years straight almost everyday.
Beverly Peltier, Augusta Technical College