I guess I am in. Thank you Wini for the new invitation.
I participated in the Calderwood 2 summers ago, and learned a great deal. My backround is medicine, and I teach Anatomy, Radiology and Differential Diagnosis at the FPU PT program. I do not have a lot of experience writing (other than turgid science papers), and even less teaching writing. I feel that my first Calderwood experience helped with the limited amount of writing that I ask of my students. I have also been teaching an online version of my Radiology course, and am very interested in making that work better, so I am very excited about this Calderwood opportunity. See you all tomorrow.
Mark
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Introducing Ron Drogy
Hello, Calderwood Colleagues,
I am Ron Drogy, from Peterborough, by way of New York, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, and Massachusetts. I teach College Writing I and II, and this year I will be the coordinator/director of The Write Place, the FPU writing center, located in Edgewood Hall. The Write Place tutors support students with their written assignments, regardless of subject area, at all phases of the writing process. I also work part-time as an online scoring rater for the Graduate Record essay exams.
Over my 33 year career in education, I have taught at all levels, from pre-first grade (Readiness) through undergrad college. I have also been an elementary school reading teacher, district language arts consultant, and freelance writing consultant. I have also been a circulation supervisor in the FPU library, and middle school soccer and basketball coach.
Last summer I participated in the Calderwood seminar and then applied many new ideas from that week in my writing classes. I used WebCT consistently with my classes, and I started seeing many benefits by having students write, post, and confer on line in the discussion sections. I am very excited to see what this week's seminar will offer, in particular for doing more group work, and in improving responding to and publishing student writing.
From my past, but limited, online experiences in teacher/student, and student/student communication, I have seen my writers eagerly and skillfully accept very responsible attitudes and work habits as members of our writing communities.
In following up the seminar with new methods over the course of the academic year, I will be documenting as much of our online discussions and protocols as possible, to study the quality, depth and commitment related to the content of this seminar. I am also interested in exploring new avenues of publishing writing via the net, and in hard copy, as I have read about in Hawisher and Moran's article. Well, only 16 hours until I an en route to the first day of the seminar. Think I will sign off now and attend to a long overdue margarita and enjoy the rest of this beautiful day.
Ron Drogy
I am Ron Drogy, from Peterborough, by way of New York, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, and Massachusetts. I teach College Writing I and II, and this year I will be the coordinator/director of The Write Place, the FPU writing center, located in Edgewood Hall. The Write Place tutors support students with their written assignments, regardless of subject area, at all phases of the writing process. I also work part-time as an online scoring rater for the Graduate Record essay exams.
Over my 33 year career in education, I have taught at all levels, from pre-first grade (Readiness) through undergrad college. I have also been an elementary school reading teacher, district language arts consultant, and freelance writing consultant. I have also been a circulation supervisor in the FPU library, and middle school soccer and basketball coach.
Last summer I participated in the Calderwood seminar and then applied many new ideas from that week in my writing classes. I used WebCT consistently with my classes, and I started seeing many benefits by having students write, post, and confer on line in the discussion sections. I am very excited to see what this week's seminar will offer, in particular for doing more group work, and in improving responding to and publishing student writing.
From my past, but limited, online experiences in teacher/student, and student/student communication, I have seen my writers eagerly and skillfully accept very responsible attitudes and work habits as members of our writing communities.
In following up the seminar with new methods over the course of the academic year, I will be documenting as much of our online discussions and protocols as possible, to study the quality, depth and commitment related to the content of this seminar. I am also interested in exploring new avenues of publishing writing via the net, and in hard copy, as I have read about in Hawisher and Moran's article. Well, only 16 hours until I an en route to the first day of the seminar. Think I will sign off now and attend to a long overdue margarita and enjoy the rest of this beautiful day.
Ron Drogy
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