The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference, November 7–8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.
Don Payne, ISUComm Director, Donna Niday, ISUComm Assessment Coordinator, and Quinn Warnick, ISUComm Instructional Technology Coordinator, presented a panel on "Assessment: A New Challenge for Multimodal Communication Programs," on May 29, 2008, at the International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Austin, TX.
As part of a comprehensive assessment program, ISUComm has developed programmatic rubrics that can also be used, in modified form, for assignment and overall student assessment in the communication classroom. Here are the major rubrics:
On Feb. 29, 2008, at the new Kirkwood Center for Community Education (pictured below), Kirkwood Community College, Don Payne, ISUComm Director, and Donna Niday, ISUComm Assessment Coordinator, spoke to the Statewide Roundtable for Iowa Community College Teachers of English about "Multimodal Communication: Reshaping the Curriculum." Materials distributed with the presentation are available for download in PDF format.
Donna Niday discusses WOVE with ICTE colleagues
The session provided a brief overview of the ISUComm program and its WOVE pedagogy. A teacher's resource packet covered WOVE principles, assessment strategies, and some sample activities.
