Winter Writing Workshop 2024
Winter Writing Workshop
February 10, 2024 Lee Scott Academy Charlie Lesh and Mike Cook facilitated the workshop with a focus on artificial intelligence and its role in writing and writing instruction. They are reintroducing the National Writing Project to the East Alabama area this summer with the Village Writing Project. The foundation of discussion for the workshop was based on the 2023 jointly written paper by the Modern Language Association and the Conference on College Composition and Communication. This paper presented the history of artificial intelligence and proposed both risks and benefits to artificial intelligence on writing instruction. Click this link to read the paper. Participants then pulled out their phones and visited OpenAI to discover how artificial intelligence converses with users and answers questions in multifaceted ways. Can it refine lessons we have planned? Can it give suggestions for enrichment or intervention? Can it tell us how to make a sandwich? Robust conversation followed about the benefits of using artificial intelligence as a teacher. Robust laughter also followed because of the discovery of limitations in artificial intelligence. The takeaway? Students still need real live human teachers! |
Winter Writing Workshop 2023
Winter Writing Workshop 2023
February 25, 2023
Lee County Board of Education Featuring Poet Hank Lazer
Click the link below to open and view Poetry on the Plains, a collection of poems written by participants in the 2023 Winter Writing Workshop. The collection also includes self-selected photographs of trees.
Poetry on the Plains |
Winter Writing Workshop 2022
Winter Writing Workshop 2020
Winter Writing Workshop
February 22, 2020
Lee-Scott Academy
Teacher-Facilitated Sessions
Bringing Fresh Ideas Into Writing: How to Help "I Can't Think of Anything to Write"
Susan Shonk
Let Puppets Inspire You
LaSean Spencer
Polaroid Journal: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Angela Payne
It's All About the Hooks
JoAnna Hagler
Cultivating Writing: Following Jack Gantos' Playbook
Harrow Strickland
Ungraded Writing Assignments: Necessary and Confidence Boosting
Cate Sagastegui
Writing with Color: Using Multisensory Grammar
Aleesa Zutter
Kid News: Using Scholastic News as a Mentor Text
Liz Greathouse
Six Things You Should Know About Expository Writing
Kristen Ferrell
Poems Without Words: Using Art in Writing
Jessica Barnes
Author-Facilitated Sessions
Write Like and Octopus
Irene Latham
Rabbits in the Sky
Roger Reid
Teaching Hard History Through Stories of Inspiration
Frye Gaillard and Marti Rosner
Women's Rights in My Mother's Time?
Faye Gibbons
Author Speed Dating
Frye Gaillard and Marti Rosner
Faye Gibbons
Irene Latham
Ash Parsons
Roger Reid
February 22, 2020
Lee-Scott Academy
Teacher-Facilitated Sessions
Bringing Fresh Ideas Into Writing: How to Help "I Can't Think of Anything to Write"
Susan Shonk
Let Puppets Inspire You
LaSean Spencer
Polaroid Journal: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Angela Payne
It's All About the Hooks
JoAnna Hagler
Cultivating Writing: Following Jack Gantos' Playbook
Harrow Strickland
Ungraded Writing Assignments: Necessary and Confidence Boosting
Cate Sagastegui
Writing with Color: Using Multisensory Grammar
Aleesa Zutter
Kid News: Using Scholastic News as a Mentor Text
Liz Greathouse
Six Things You Should Know About Expository Writing
Kristen Ferrell
Poems Without Words: Using Art in Writing
Jessica Barnes
Author-Facilitated Sessions
Write Like and Octopus
Irene Latham
Rabbits in the Sky
Roger Reid
Teaching Hard History Through Stories of Inspiration
Frye Gaillard and Marti Rosner
Women's Rights in My Mother's Time?
Faye Gibbons
Author Speed Dating
Frye Gaillard and Marti Rosner
Faye Gibbons
Irene Latham
Ash Parsons
Roger Reid
Winter Writing Workshop 2019
Winter Writing Workshop
February 16, 2019 Lee-Scott Academy Sessions Taking the Humdrums Out of Writing with Polaroids Angela Payne Multisensory Grammar as a Tool for Writing Wes Gordon Sentence Surgery Missy Shumate and Donna Stark Grown Up Acrostics: Reader Response Writing Katie Rainer What's Your Story? Using Shared Journals to Foster Language and Writing Heather Donaldson and Lana Grooms Grammar Patterns of Power Aleesa Zutter Small Moment Writing in History Harrow Strickland Mining Verse Novels for Creative Writing Michelle Hopf Community of Writers All Participants |