The Three Presenters in This Session Teach at Middlebury College, a Highly Select Residential

The three presenters in this session teach at Middlebury College, a highly select residential liberal arts college in the mountains of northern Vermont. It has a student population of 2,350, a student/faculty ration of 9 to 1, approximately 15% international students and approximately 10% US students of color. It has a fairly traditional curriculum -- with pockets of experimentation and envelope-pushing. English majors are still required to read Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton. The three presenters work in the Writing Program at Middlebury, one of those pockets of experimentation. The Writing Program's 2004 move to the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research in a new campus library placed them proximate to research librarians, educational technologists, and a newly equipped digital media lab. This move enhanced their connections with reference librarians and technologists and facilitated the changes to their pedagogy that they will discuss today. They will speak in the following order: Mary Ellen Bertolini, Lecturer and Tutor in Writing, Assistant Director of Writing; Catharine Wright, Lecturer and Tutor in Writing; Kathy Skubikowski, Associate Professor of English, Director of Writing. We ask you to hold questions until the end of the three presentations.

Middlebury is a highly select residential liberal arts college in the mountains of northern Vermont. It has a student population of 2,350, a student/faculty ration of 9 to 1, approximately 15% international students and approximately 10% US students of color. It has a fairly traditional curriculum -- English majors are still required to read Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton -- with pockets of experimentation and envelope-pushing. The three presenters work in the Writing Program at Middlebury, one of those pockets. The Writing Program’s 2004 move to the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research in a new campus library placed them proximate to research librarians, educational technologists, and a newly equipped digital media lab. This move enhanced their connections with reference librarians and technologists and facilitated the changes to their pedagogy that they will discuss today. They will speak in the following order: Mary Ellen Bertolini, Lecturer and Tutor in Writing, Assistant Director of Writing; Catharine Wright, Lecturer and Tutor in Writing; Kathy Skubikowski, Associate Professor of English, Director of Writing. We ask you to hold questions until the end of the three presentations.

The Writing Program’s 2004 move to the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research in a new campus library placed us proximate to research librarians, educational technologists, and a newly equipped digital media lab. This move enhanced our connections with librarians and technologists and facilitated the changes we had begun to make in our pedagogy.