...Beth Lewis Samuelson; Cathy Hicks-Kennard Poster sessions aren't just for professional conferences. They are popular in a variety of academic disciplines, where they have been shown to boost motivation, foster alternative assessment, and promote peer interaction. They are gaining popularity as a...

... different genres of writing, from scholarly inquiries to multi-modal “deliverables” supporting their student groups. These final “deliverables” included posters, videos, prezis, banners, and even original music to be played at meetings or events. The fact that student worked with peers alleviated some...

... posters, one made a digital recording of his voice, another wrote portions of her annotations in Spanish. Several created handwritten pieces using multicolored pens to di erentiate voices, and others typed scripts or essays that interspersed metacommentary and narrative with a reconstruction of...

... from several states and countries, thirty- seven New Yorkers chose to participate in the research project. Students responded in a multitude of forms. Some used posters, one made a digital recording of his voice, another wrote portions of her annotations in Spanish. Several created handwritten...

... posters, one made a digital recording of his voice, another wrote portions of her annotations in Spanish. Several created handwritten pieces using multicolored pens to di erentiate voices, and others typed scripts or essays that interspersed metacommentary and narrative with a reconstruction of...

... Room Scrap-Book , 24 – 25 . London : Fisher, Son and Jackson . Knowles Claire . 2009 . Sensibility and Female Poetic Tradition, 1780–1860: The Legacy of Charlotte Smith . Farnham, UK : Ashgate . Labbe Jacqueline M. 2000 . “ Re-membering: Memory, Posterity, and the Memorial...

... to join a committee overseeing graduate course offerings to ensure that courses such as mine were no longer offered. He came to my office one day, pointed to the word power on the poster advertising the course, and said, All that women want is power. Though my supportive department took immediate...

...) writes of a similar experience; he recalls seeing the writing process captured by a few stark posters. “Each of the posters —  obviously commercially produced — contained in large black type one word. PREWRITE. WRITE. REVISE. EDIT.” When I taught middle school, I had similar posters in my...

..., enter- ing my daughter’s classroom was like stepping from a prison block into a rain- forest. Books and educational toys spilled from the shelves; crayons and con- struction materials cluttered the tables; vibrant artwork lined the walls. One poster in particular caught my eye: an eight-petaled...

... is not effaced can count as new media” (15). The same can be said for multimodal­ ity. A multimodal composition can be a poster board with words and images on it (alphabetical and visual), an oral presentation with signs or handouts on display during the presentation (aural, alphabetical, and...

... mind-­set, risked erasing the lived experience of HIV/AIDS by talking only about self-­ reliance. The condom art of one group, meant to be a public health poster, actually became more successful as a piece of invisible theater: as the students assembled the work in the library, student after...

... in the narrative of identity. I recall the poster that adorned a wall in my kindergarten classroom: Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care. Too often, I observe my fellow graduate teaching assistants fully engaged in the necessary work of condemning exclusive and violent...

... among a hypothesis, dependent/ inde- 174 Pedagogy pendent variables, and experimental/control groups. The graphic organizer provided a basis for all phases of his project: creating and conducting the experiment, writing a report, and producing a trifold poster presentation. The structure of the lab...

... course on vampire film and fiction, we spend the first day looking at posters advertising several twentieth-century vampire films. Examining the poster for Guy Maddin’s 2003 Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary alongside those for Murnau’s 1922 Nosferatu and Browning’s 1931 Dracula, we talk about...

...- ple, in a topic-based writing course on vampire film and fiction, we spend the first day looking at posters advertising several twentieth-century vampire films. Examining the poster for Guy Maddin’s 2003 Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary alongside those for Murnau’s 1922 Nosferatu and...

... course on vampire film and fiction, we spend the first day looking at posters advertising several twentieth-century vampire films. Examining the poster for Guy Maddin’s 2003 Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary alongside those for Murnau’s 1922 Nosferatu and Browning’s 1931 Dracula, we talk about...

... of “against the grain” exercises in class. (See fig. 2 for the complete assignment.) For exam- ple, in a topic-based writing course on vampire film and fiction, we spend the first day looking at posters advertising several twentieth-century vampire films. Examining the poster for Guy Maddin’s...

... University Press. North, Stephen M. 2000 . Refiguring the Ph.D. in English Studies: Writing, Doctoral Education, and the Fusion-Based Curriculum . Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English. Poster, Mark. 2001 . What's the Matter with the Internet? Minneapolis: University of Minnesota...

... University Press. North, Stephen M. 2000 . Refiguring the Ph.D. in English Studies: Writing, Doctoral Education, and the Fusion-Based Curriculum . Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English. Poster, Mark. 2001 . What's the Matter with the Internet? Minneapolis: University of Minnesota...

... University Press. North, Stephen M. 2000 . Refiguring the Ph.D. in English Studies: Writing, Doctoral Education, and the Fusion-Based Curriculum . Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English. Poster, Mark. 2001 . What's the Matter with the Internet? Minneapolis: University of Minnesota...