MENAWCA 2009: Resource Archive
Learning Circles: A Tool for Group Tutorial
Paula
Hayden, College of the North Atlantic-Qatar
Many
students have difficulty completing a written assignment simply because
they do not understand the written material associated with it. A
learning circle is a strategy to help small groups understand and
reflect on written material they may wish to reference in a written
assignment or presentation. Please find attached the handouts for use
in your session/class. Feel free to use, adapt, or discard as
needed!
Strategies
to Encourage Student Use of Writing Centers: The College of the North
Atlantic-Qatar Experience
Michael Long, College
of the North Atlantic-Qatar
Contains a power point
presentation.
Using Concordance Software
Jan
Cambrensis, UGRU, UAE University, JCambrensis@uaeu.ac.ae
At
this session, participants were introduced to a program that teachers
can use with their own corpora to make pertinent materials for
students. An example of such materials can be found at UGRU/UAEU
Concordance.
Jan is the Editor of the UGRU Concordance, for which the rationale can
be read on the homepage by clicking on the 'Rationale' link. The
software used can be downloaded to PCs from www.concordancesoftware.com
for a 30 day free trial. UAEU has a site licence for perpetual use.
Building a
website for learners from available resources
Robert
L. Fielding, United Arab Emirates University (UGRU)
RobertF@uaeu.ac.ae
Resources
available to creators of websites are always going to be limited
(particularly in education). Visit these two websites to see several
ways of coping with such limitations and still provide users what they
need. Mission statement: That no student be prevented from using the
site because of his or her limited abilities in either English or IT,
and that the material provided on the site supplements more
conventional learning rather than trying to replace it.
UAEU Writing
Centre website - http://www.ugr.uaeu.ac.ae/writing_centre/index.shtml
Personal
website - www.rlfielding.com
The Creative Writing Center
Autumn Watts,
Writing Center Coordinator,Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar
"With
this
workshop, I aim to blur the distinction between "academic" and
"creative" writing in the Writing Center, and share some exercises I've
used to help students enrich their language and their enjoyment of it."
Contains power point presentation.
Starting
a Writing Center Wherever You Are:
KEEPING TRACK OF DATA: WHY, HOW,
WHAT NEXT?
N. Jean Hodges, VCUQatar Writing Center
Instructor
In
2004 new Writing Center Instructor Jean Hodges inherited little for
running the Writing Center at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar
(VCUQatar). This presentation examined why record-keeping is important;
explained the manual system of forms, software, and reports that has
been evolving at VCUQatar from 2004 to the present; and identified
benefits from record-keeping. The purpose of the presentation was to
convince attendees that record-keeping, regardless of what system is
used, is a necessary and important part of Writing Center work.
Contains
a
.pdf of a power point presentation in "View/Notes Page" format so
that you can see the presentation notes and explanations along with the
slides.
A 12-step Discovery Program
Bevin Roue,
Emirates College for Advanced Education, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Email:
broue@ecae.ac.ae
A
12-step Discovery Program looks at the richness of writing center
start-up in the Middle East and offers steps for discovering how to
begin, rather than simply telling how to begin. Contains a handout
and power point slides.
Liticia Salter, Texas A&M University - Qatar
This presentation presents the value of an effective time-management system and reviews the experience of finding a workable appointment and record-keeping system for the writing center on the campus of Texas A&M University at Qatar. Contains a power point featuring audio interviews with two TAMUQ writing consultants.
Overcoming
Challenges in a Middle-Eastern Writing Center
Maria
Eleftheriou (Director of the AUS Writing Center)
Tutors: Samihah S.
Zaman, Farhaana Ismail, Ljubisa Djordjevic, Raghad Tayeh, Celine George
American
University of Sharjah, meleftheriou@aus.edu
Our
presentation focused on the challenges experienced by writing center
consultants when working with ESL students at the American University
of Sharjah. A powerpoint presentation is included here.
Establishing
a Tutor Training Program in the Absence of Region-Specific Literature
Lynne
Ronesi, American University of Sharjah, lronesi@aus.edu
MENAWCA
peer-tutor
trainers have access to American tutor training literature
but must develop training programs that address their unique local
needs. This presentation demonstrated how a student-centered
approach�active inquiry, reflection, and experiential learning�has
fashioned a training curriculum that supports American University of
Sharjah�s multilingual student body.
Jennie Murray, Saif Awadh, Mariam Meqbali, Musa Rahim Gul, Seira Ben-Ammar
email: jenniem@uaeu.ac.ae or jenniemurray2001@yahoo.com
Jennie Murray, the supervisor, two tutors from the men's writing center and one tutor from the women's writing center, along with a former tutor who is now teaching English in secondary school, showed how this writing center is run on a daily basis and the challenges therein, how we work in English and Arabic, what other student projects we run besides writing consulting and how we are expanding across our campuses and into the hostels.