EGSA Digest 9.19.14

Adam_Marshall October 3, 2014 EGSA Digests Uncategorized 0

Today’s Digest will rapidly start to feel like an exercise in hyperlinks. Click them. Click them all.

Fall Party, Saturday, 9/20

Turn up at 601 Dyer Ave around 7 PM
Obtain entry using the secret password (“I brought food/drink!”)
Fancy dress. This is American fancy dress (dress up fancy) rather than British fancy dress (dress in a costume).
Significant others, children, other persons who share your abode welcome. Furry children are not. (Pets. I mean pets. Don’t bring your pets. I’m not discriminating against actual children with fur.)

Parent-Faculty Coffee, Saturday, 9/20

9:30-11 AM, Fountain Mall
All current TAs, remember your obligation: to stand on Fountain Mall and make awkward small talk while waiting for a wayward parent to drift by and interrogate you about your pedagogical practices/fish for praise about their child.
Also, pick up your nametags in the English office.
(Knew there was something I forgot to do today.)

TeaCHE

If you would like to complete the Teaching Capstone in Higher Education (TeaCHE, nice backronym), the intent to participate form is due by Sept 22.
For what it’s worth, this goes on your transcript so that employers know you are one super legit teacher.
Final project due by April 17, 2015.
More information on TeaCHE here.
Intent to Participate form here.

SET Seminar, Wednesday, 9/24

“Designing Writing: How to Create Meaningful and Engaging Writing Assignments”
Taught by Kara Poe Alexander (English)
3:35 to 4:35 PM, Jones Library 200 (that time is designedÂ to keep you on your toes)
“Writing Designer” sounds like a much better title than “English Teacher,” doesn’t it?
Fregister here.

MRRS, Friday, 9/26

Dr. Nancy Warren, Chair of the English Department at Texas A&M
“‘Flying from the Depravities of Europe, to the American Strand’: Chaucer and the Chaucer Tradition in Early America.â€
If you are fleeing depravity, but bringing along Chaucer with all his fart jokes and sexy medieval shenanigans, have you actually been reading Chaucer? Find out!
2:30 PM, Cox Lecture Hall, Armstrong Browning Library
Refreshments to follow.

SET Seminar, Friday, 9/26

“Digital Media Workshop” led by Joanna Schmidt and Jay Stroup of TCU’s Media Writing Studio
3:00-4:00 PM in Carroll Science G-09
Learn how to produce short videos so that you can look technologically savvy when you teach your students to do the same.
Also you will then feel like less of a fraud when you boast of your computer skills on your CV.
Fregister here.

PROFF Workshop, Monday, 9/29

Bon weekend,

Mme. Secretary

Baylor