External Events

Thursday, October 12, 12-1:20 pm
Campus Center Hagglund Room, WPI
Lorraine Higgins, Director of Writing Across the Curriculum

College students are often asked to develop written arguments that address the questions and problems raised in their courses and projects. This intellectually demanding task requires them to research information from multiple sources and to "reframe" that information around their own claims and organizing structures. This workshop explores some of the difficulties students face as they work with and write from sources texts, and it introduces a number of notetaking, planning, and other pre-writing strategies that can support students and help them avoid the unfocused knowledge dumps and list-like summaries we sometimes see in their drafts. Specifically, the workshop introduces how annotated bibliographies, notetaking matrices, mind maps, and peer planning techniques can be used productively when writing from sources.

Please pre-register by Friday, September 26 by sending name, email address, and institutional affiliation to ceda@wpi.edu.

Thursday, October 9, 12-1:20pm
Campus Center Hagglund Room, WPI Kate Beverage (ATC), Jon Abraham (MA), Mike Buckholt (BB), Jill Rulfs (BB), Satya Shivkumar (ME)

Clickers can be used to...

• Promote active learning
• Check for student understanding
• Encourage discussion
• All of the above and more!      

Classroom response systems (or "clickers") are being used in many WPI classrooms. Clickers allow instructors to ask questions and gather students' responses during a class. Come learn about the Classroom Performance System (CPS) and how faculty at WPI are using it in their classes.

Please pre-register by Friday, October 3 by sending name, email address, and institutional affiliation to ceda@wpi.edu.