Greetings CASLL-ers and thanks in advance to the SFU group for organizing.
Just want to second Stan's and Russ's views -- I like the theme but also
want to be sure it appeals to the widest possible group school as well as
college/university. I am also becoming more and more involved in K to post
secondary reading/responding to texts and working with teachers. I think
the larger literacy community needs to keep talking, and being heard,
across the levels. (Hi Stan and Russ -- e-mailing you separately!).
P.s just in case any of you are in Montreal on April 7th 2000, we are
holding the Springboards one-day conference on Language Arts then. This
long-running conference for teachers coincides with the five day literary
festival, Blue Metropolis, which was held for the first time last year and
was a great success. Blue Metropolis invites international authors to give
readings/ talks that are held in English, French, or bilingually. If anyone
on CASLL needs info. about either Springboards or Blue Metropolis, let me
know.
Ann Beer
At 03:23 PM 11/10/99 -0500, you wrote:
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>I just want to warn against making the theme of the conference
>(e.g., writing centres, professional writing, on-line writing) too
>college/university centered so that it is not inviting to those people
>who have a primary interest in the K-12 school system. I would
>also like to make some room for the possibility of addressing
>reading within the umbrella of the conference theme.
>
>hugs and kisses
>boos and hisses
>
>from Mr. reading-writing connections in K-post secondary
>
>sbs
>Stan Straw, Ph.D.
>Professor of Education
>238 Education Building
>University of Manitoba
>Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2
>204-474-9074 FAX 204-474-7550
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>At 09:04 AM 12/10/99 -0300, you wrote:
>As will probably surprise nobody, I'm with Stan on both these points:
>
>> I just want to warn against making the theme of the conference
>> (e.g., writing centres, professional writing, on-line writing) too
>> college/university centered so that it is not inviting to those people
>> who have a primary interest in the K-12 school system. I would
>> also like to make some room for the possibility of addressing
>> reading within the umbrella of the conference theme.
>
>For all of us, the path of least resistance is to tilt toward postsecondary
>(because, in general, postsecondary folks have more support and resources to
>get them to conferences and to promote their participation, and toward
>writing because writing seems like something we _do together_, where reading
>seems, oh, kind of something that happens to us, separately.
>
>So I think we need to think hard about countertilting a conference theme and
>call for papers to make sure K-12 folks feel invited, and we need to provide
>for attention to reading (there isn't any writing without reading, of
>course, but I think we all -- me included -- tend to talk about writing as
>though it were a separable activity).
>
>And I'd like to put in my plug for explicitly named, vigorously promoted
>reading time(s) at the conference. If we just provide texts on a table
>someplace I tend to put them in my suitcase for perusal afterward, in order
>to have the chance to talk with friends I only see once a year. That's
>cool, but for my money one of the most successful conference innovations
>Inkshed has ever pursued was the stipulated "this is reading time" move.
>It's like providing reading time for inksheds.
>
>I don't think I'm alone in this. Besides the restorative power of just going
>off somewhere for a bit, I got to read wonderful stuff by inkshedders that I
>know very well would otherwise have gone from my suitcase to the pending
>shelf above my keyboard to the resources file and possibly -- if I
>remembered it -- eventually been read when I got round to doing research in
>that specific issue.
>
> -- Russ
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