Member News
June 2018
Scott Warnock, PhD, GSOLE Vice President, was promoted to Professor at Drexel University.
Alex Rockey presented "Spotlighting Innovative Use Cases of Mobile Learning" at the Emerging Learning Design conference in June 2018.
Lauren E. Salisbury published "Just a Tool: Instructors’ Attitudes and Use of Course Management Systems for Online Writing Instruction" in Computers and Composition 48.
May 2018
Alex Rockey presented "Beer Deconstructed: Designing Short Weekly Writing Assignments in a Fully Online Beer and Brewing Course" and "Envisioning a Digital Learning Environment at University of California, Davis: A Space for Pedagogical Discovery and 'Play'" at the Computers and Writing conference in May 2018.
April 2018
Heidi Harris won the College of Social Sciences and Communication Excellence in Teaching Award for 2018 at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Cat Mahaffey and a colleague were charged with developing a training course that melded QM standards with OWI principles. They piloted the course in April with 4 participants with good success. We hope to revise it this fall and offer it again in spring 2019.
Scott Warnock, PhD, GSOLE Vice President, & co-author Diana Gasiewski published the book Writing Together: Ten Weeks Teaching and Studenting in an Online Writing Course with the National Council of Teachers of English (https://secure.ncte.org/store/writing-together).
Collin Bjork won the Lieber Memorial Teaching Associate Award, the highest teaching award for graduate students in any department at Indiana University. He won this award, in part, for helping design the new online first-year writing course at Indiana University and then creating pedagogical materials for future online instructors. You can read more about his specific accomplishments on this webpage.
March 2018
Alex Rockey was the recipient of the GSOLE Research Fellowship for her project "Ecology of Feedback in Online Courses in the Disciplines."
January 2018
Sarah Prince and colleagues Rachel Willard, Ellen Zamarripa, and Matt Sharkey-Smith published the article “Peripheral (Re)Visions: Moving online writing centers from margin to center” in the Writing Lab Newsletter: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, 42.5-6.
Beth Hewett, with Rebecca Hallman Martini, published the article “Educating Online Writing Instructors Using the Jungian Personality Types" in Computers and Composition. 47 (2018): 34-58.
Beth Hewett, with Rebecca Hallman Martini, published the article “Teaching Tutors NOT to Tutor Themselves: Personality in Online Writing Sessions in Research in Online Literacy Education, 1 (1) (2018) www.roleolor.weebly.com/role.html
Beth Hewett published a chapter titled, “The Camino: A Pilgrim’s Journey of Choice.” In Elizabeth A. Flynn and Tiffany Bourelle Eds. Women’s Professional Lives in Rhetoric and Composition: Choice, Chance, and Serendipity. Ohio: University of Ohio Press. 2018. (154-172).
Scott Warnock, PhD, GSOLE Vice President, was promoted to Professor at Drexel University.
Alex Rockey presented "Spotlighting Innovative Use Cases of Mobile Learning" at the Emerging Learning Design conference in June 2018.
Lauren E. Salisbury published "Just a Tool: Instructors’ Attitudes and Use of Course Management Systems for Online Writing Instruction" in Computers and Composition 48.
May 2018
Alex Rockey presented "Beer Deconstructed: Designing Short Weekly Writing Assignments in a Fully Online Beer and Brewing Course" and "Envisioning a Digital Learning Environment at University of California, Davis: A Space for Pedagogical Discovery and 'Play'" at the Computers and Writing conference in May 2018.
April 2018
Heidi Harris won the College of Social Sciences and Communication Excellence in Teaching Award for 2018 at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Cat Mahaffey and a colleague were charged with developing a training course that melded QM standards with OWI principles. They piloted the course in April with 4 participants with good success. We hope to revise it this fall and offer it again in spring 2019.
Scott Warnock, PhD, GSOLE Vice President, & co-author Diana Gasiewski published the book Writing Together: Ten Weeks Teaching and Studenting in an Online Writing Course with the National Council of Teachers of English (https://secure.ncte.org/store/writing-together).
Collin Bjork won the Lieber Memorial Teaching Associate Award, the highest teaching award for graduate students in any department at Indiana University. He won this award, in part, for helping design the new online first-year writing course at Indiana University and then creating pedagogical materials for future online instructors. You can read more about his specific accomplishments on this webpage.
March 2018
Alex Rockey was the recipient of the GSOLE Research Fellowship for her project "Ecology of Feedback in Online Courses in the Disciplines."
January 2018
Sarah Prince and colleagues Rachel Willard, Ellen Zamarripa, and Matt Sharkey-Smith published the article “Peripheral (Re)Visions: Moving online writing centers from margin to center” in the Writing Lab Newsletter: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, 42.5-6.
Beth Hewett, with Rebecca Hallman Martini, published the article “Educating Online Writing Instructors Using the Jungian Personality Types" in Computers and Composition. 47 (2018): 34-58.
Beth Hewett, with Rebecca Hallman Martini, published the article “Teaching Tutors NOT to Tutor Themselves: Personality in Online Writing Sessions in Research in Online Literacy Education, 1 (1) (2018) www.roleolor.weebly.com/role.html
Beth Hewett published a chapter titled, “The Camino: A Pilgrim’s Journey of Choice.” In Elizabeth A. Flynn and Tiffany Bourelle Eds. Women’s Professional Lives in Rhetoric and Composition: Choice, Chance, and Serendipity. Ohio: University of Ohio Press. 2018. (154-172).
December 2017
Beth Hewett, with Robbin Zeff Warner, published the book: Publishing an Academic Article: Tips, Tricks, and Tactics. Forest Hill, MD: Defend & Publish Books, 2017.
November 2017
Cat Mahaffey conducted a webinar for UNC Charlotte's Center for Teaching & Learning titled "Online Literacy: Understanding How Our Students Read Assignments In Canvas" and was selected as a Quality Matters Associate Faculty Fellow at UNC Charlotte. Their mission is to train faculty to teach online and to review new online/blended courses.
September 2017
Mary K. Stewart published “Communities of Inquiry: A Heuristic for Designing and Assessing Interactive Learning in Technology-Mediated FYC” in Computers and Composition 45.
Beth Hewett, PhD, GSOLE President, & Scott Warnock, GSOLE Vice President, published the chapter “Writing MOOEEs? Reconsidering MOOCs in Light of the OWI Principles” in the Handbook of Research on Writing and Composing in the Age of MOOCs, edited by GSOLE member Elizabeth A. Monske & Kristine Blair (IGI Global).
Beth Hewett, with Tiffany Bourelle, published the chapter “Training Instructors to Teach Multimodal Composition in OWI Courses.” In Kris Blair and Elizabeth Monske, Eds. Writing and Composition in the Age of MOOCs. IGI Global. 2017 (348-369).
August 2017
Ellen C. Carillo published the digital textbook, A Writer's Guide to Mindful Reading.
July 2017
Collin Bjork won the "Best Graduate Paper in Rhetoric and Culture" award at the 2017 Rhetoric Society of Europe conference in July 2017.
June 2017
Jason Snart became the first Chair of Literature, Creative Writing, and Film at College of DuPage.
Traci Gardner was awarded the 2017 CCCC Technology Innovator Award, on June 2, at the 33rd Computers and Writing Conference, in Findlay, Ohio.
Casey McArdle was awarded the 2017 Kairos Award for Service at the 2017 Computers and Writing Conference in Findlay, Ohio.
April 2017
Lyra Hilliard received the Provost's Excellence Award for Professional Track Faculty. The selection committee noted her outstanding work in blended/ online learning and her dedication to both the Academic Writing Program and the Undergraduate Teaching Assistants in Writing Classes Program.
Jason Snart’s chapter entitled “Hybrid Learning at the Community College” was published in Hybrid Teaching and Learning: New Directions for Teaching and Learning (http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1119376432.html)
Scott Warnock, PhD, GSOLE Vice President and Director of the University Writing Program at Drexel University, led a team that won Drexel’s University Award for Pedagogy and Assessment for the project “Measuring Quality, Evaluating Curricular Change: A 7-Year Assessment of Undergraduate Business Student Writing.” This work was also the basis of the article “Measuring Quality, Evaluating Curricular Change: A 7-Year Assessment of Undergraduate Business Student Writing” that Warnock published in the Journal of Business and Technical Writing (April 2017) with co-authors Nicholas Rouse, Christopher Finnin, Frank Linnehan, & Dylan Dryer.
Beth Hewett, with Tiffany Bourelle, Technical Communication Quarterly Special issue: “Professional Development for Online Technical Communication Educators: Continuing the Conversation.” 26.3 (July-Sep 2017): 217-222.
Beth Hewett, with Robbin Z. Warner, published “Technical Communication Coaching: A Strategy for Instilling Reader Usability Assurance in Online Course Material Development.” Technical Communication Quarterly, 26.3 (2017: 300-313.
February 2017
Heidi Skurat Harris, GSOLE Board Member, was the lead editor and worked with authors Mahli Mechenbier, Natalie Stillman-Webb, and Sushil Oswal to publish the The Bedford Bibliography of Research in Online Writing Instruction.
January 2017
Joanna Paull & Jason Snart published a book: Making Hybrids Work: An Institutional Framework for Blending Online and Face-to-Face Instruction in Higher Education.
Beth Hewett published “Anyone Can Teach an Online Writing Course.” In Drew Lowe and Cheryl Ball, Eds. Bad Ideas About Writing.” 2017. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Digital Publishing Institute. (356-362). https://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu/badideas/badideasaboutwriting-book.pdf
December 2016
Beth Hewett, GSOLE President, talks about GSOLE in Communication Design Quarterly 4.4.
Heidi Skurat Harris and Michael Greer, GSOLE Board Members, published the article "Over, Under, or Through: Design Strategies to Supplement the LMS and Enhance Interaction in Online Writing Courses" in Communication Design Quarterly 4.4.
July 2016
Beth Hewett, with Erin C. singer, published “Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Travel Sketches and Samuel P. Newman’s A Practical System of Rhetoric: A Case of American Belletristic Theory on Praxis.” in Advances in the History of Rhetoric. 19.3 (2016): 298-320.
Beth Hewett published “Addendum: Seeking Hawthorne’s Niagara.” Advances in the History of Rhetoric. 19.3 (2016): 321-323.
Beth Hewett, with Robbin Zeff Warner, published the book: Publishing an Academic Article: Tips, Tricks, and Tactics. Forest Hill, MD: Defend & Publish Books, 2017.
November 2017
Cat Mahaffey conducted a webinar for UNC Charlotte's Center for Teaching & Learning titled "Online Literacy: Understanding How Our Students Read Assignments In Canvas" and was selected as a Quality Matters Associate Faculty Fellow at UNC Charlotte. Their mission is to train faculty to teach online and to review new online/blended courses.
September 2017
Mary K. Stewart published “Communities of Inquiry: A Heuristic for Designing and Assessing Interactive Learning in Technology-Mediated FYC” in Computers and Composition 45.
Beth Hewett, PhD, GSOLE President, & Scott Warnock, GSOLE Vice President, published the chapter “Writing MOOEEs? Reconsidering MOOCs in Light of the OWI Principles” in the Handbook of Research on Writing and Composing in the Age of MOOCs, edited by GSOLE member Elizabeth A. Monske & Kristine Blair (IGI Global).
Beth Hewett, with Tiffany Bourelle, published the chapter “Training Instructors to Teach Multimodal Composition in OWI Courses.” In Kris Blair and Elizabeth Monske, Eds. Writing and Composition in the Age of MOOCs. IGI Global. 2017 (348-369).
August 2017
Ellen C. Carillo published the digital textbook, A Writer's Guide to Mindful Reading.
July 2017
Collin Bjork won the "Best Graduate Paper in Rhetoric and Culture" award at the 2017 Rhetoric Society of Europe conference in July 2017.
June 2017
Jason Snart became the first Chair of Literature, Creative Writing, and Film at College of DuPage.
Traci Gardner was awarded the 2017 CCCC Technology Innovator Award, on June 2, at the 33rd Computers and Writing Conference, in Findlay, Ohio.
Casey McArdle was awarded the 2017 Kairos Award for Service at the 2017 Computers and Writing Conference in Findlay, Ohio.
April 2017
Lyra Hilliard received the Provost's Excellence Award for Professional Track Faculty. The selection committee noted her outstanding work in blended/ online learning and her dedication to both the Academic Writing Program and the Undergraduate Teaching Assistants in Writing Classes Program.
Jason Snart’s chapter entitled “Hybrid Learning at the Community College” was published in Hybrid Teaching and Learning: New Directions for Teaching and Learning (http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1119376432.html)
Scott Warnock, PhD, GSOLE Vice President and Director of the University Writing Program at Drexel University, led a team that won Drexel’s University Award for Pedagogy and Assessment for the project “Measuring Quality, Evaluating Curricular Change: A 7-Year Assessment of Undergraduate Business Student Writing.” This work was also the basis of the article “Measuring Quality, Evaluating Curricular Change: A 7-Year Assessment of Undergraduate Business Student Writing” that Warnock published in the Journal of Business and Technical Writing (April 2017) with co-authors Nicholas Rouse, Christopher Finnin, Frank Linnehan, & Dylan Dryer.
Beth Hewett, with Tiffany Bourelle, Technical Communication Quarterly Special issue: “Professional Development for Online Technical Communication Educators: Continuing the Conversation.” 26.3 (July-Sep 2017): 217-222.
Beth Hewett, with Robbin Z. Warner, published “Technical Communication Coaching: A Strategy for Instilling Reader Usability Assurance in Online Course Material Development.” Technical Communication Quarterly, 26.3 (2017: 300-313.
February 2017
Heidi Skurat Harris, GSOLE Board Member, was the lead editor and worked with authors Mahli Mechenbier, Natalie Stillman-Webb, and Sushil Oswal to publish the The Bedford Bibliography of Research in Online Writing Instruction.
January 2017
Joanna Paull & Jason Snart published a book: Making Hybrids Work: An Institutional Framework for Blending Online and Face-to-Face Instruction in Higher Education.
Beth Hewett published “Anyone Can Teach an Online Writing Course.” In Drew Lowe and Cheryl Ball, Eds. Bad Ideas About Writing.” 2017. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Digital Publishing Institute. (356-362). https://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu/badideas/badideasaboutwriting-book.pdf
December 2016
Beth Hewett, GSOLE President, talks about GSOLE in Communication Design Quarterly 4.4.
Heidi Skurat Harris and Michael Greer, GSOLE Board Members, published the article "Over, Under, or Through: Design Strategies to Supplement the LMS and Enhance Interaction in Online Writing Courses" in Communication Design Quarterly 4.4.
July 2016
Beth Hewett, with Erin C. singer, published “Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Travel Sketches and Samuel P. Newman’s A Practical System of Rhetoric: A Case of American Belletristic Theory on Praxis.” in Advances in the History of Rhetoric. 19.3 (2016): 298-320.
Beth Hewett published “Addendum: Seeking Hawthorne’s Niagara.” Advances in the History of Rhetoric. 19.3 (2016): 321-323.