Meadow Brook Musings
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By John Callaghan
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A few years back (I won't say how many), I tried to imagine what it
would be like to retire, but I couldn't picture anything specific, as
some do, such as world travel, tending to grandchildren, or playing
multiple rounds of golf. I could imagine, though, that by the time I
handed in my final grade book, the world of learning and teaching would
be much different, if not much improved. Read More>>>
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MBWP Teacher-Consultants Take
a Summer Stroll on WIDE PATHS
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By Cornelia Porkzrywa
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Meadow Brook Writing Project TCs Rebecca Rivard ('08), Cornelia
Pokrzywa ('08), and Shaun Moore ('09) attended the WIDE PATHS
conference (Writing in Digital Environments: Pedagogies and Theories)
on the campus of Michigan State University, August 10-13, 2009. Read More>>>
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The Professional Writing Retreat
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By Laura Gabrion
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Ever since my children were small, I imagined the somber day when I
would have to drive them to college. In this vision were plenty of
tear-laden hugs and the instant realization that one of my children
had, despite my fierce resistance, grown up. An unexpected ripple
disrupted this dream in August when my three children, my husband, and
our dog dropped me off at college for thirty hours of writing and
sharing the NWP way. Read More>>>
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The 2009 Summer Institute
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By Kathleen Skomski |
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To narrow down the MBWP summer 09 institute's offerings to lessons
learned, practices and processes observed and discussed, and words
written and shared would only skim the surface of the obvious and
expected; but the summer institute produced, instilled, and inspired so
much more. I think I can speak for all this year's participants when I
say that it was the most amazing four weeks of our writing lives. Read More>>>
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Implementing "Poetry Friday"
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By Desiree Harrison |
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When I was in middle school, I never understood poetry. I didn't get
the point and sometimes it frustrated me when other people picked up a
book of poetry to read just for pleasure. I had never gotten any
pleasure out of poetry, so how could they? Read More>>>
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The Gallery of Writing in
Social Networks
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An Interview with Cornelia Pokrzywa
By Lori Ostergaard
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On October 20, 2009, writers around the country celebrated the first
National Day on Writing. As a part of the celebrations, the National
Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) sponsored a National Gallery of
Writing where writers could contribute everything from business letters
to poems, emails to research papers. MBWP's own Cornelia Pokrzywa
proposed and curated her own gallery on social networking sites: "Add
to Friends: Writing in Social Networks." Read More>>>
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New Tools for Composition
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By Lori Ostergaard
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The truly odd thing about my appointment as Technology Liaison for the
Meadow Brook Writing Project is that I tend to be a bit of a technology
skeptic, even a technophobe. More often than not, the technology I use
in my classes fails me Read More>>>
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A Room of Her Own
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By Mary Cox |
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This summer I had the wonderful experience of attending a writers'
workshop with a four-year-old organization, A Room of Her Own – AROHO.
I learned about the organization and the workshop from the list serve
of NWP's Urban Sites Network. Read More>>>
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Member News
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Congratulations go out to John Jeffire. John placed 7th out of 100 top finalists in the 78th Annual
Writer's Digest Screenwriting Contest for his adaptation of his novel Motown Burning.
Please join us in also congratulating Cornelia Pokrzywa who has recently been awarded a $2000 Building the Civic Net grant. Cornelia's grant will help to create a "Rochester Oral History Archive," a publicly available digital archive of oral histories from Rochester area residents ages 55 and older. Read More>>> |
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