Online Writing Centers Association

OWCA Website Shutdown
2022-11-28 - 2022-12-08
From November 28 to December 11, the OWCA website will be shut down for updates.
If you need to access your account or one of our resources during the shutdown, please contact website@onlinewritingcenters.org.

Reading Club: Collaborative Learning and the "Conversation of Mankind" by Kenneth Bruffee
2022-11-10 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
Reading club provides a space to discuss writing center scholarship. Based on the article or chapter chosen, participants will share experiences, ideas, strategies, and questions about online writing centers (OWCs). This Reading Club will discuss Collaborative Learning and the “Conversation of Mankind” by Kenneth Bruffee.
Guidelines for Participating
Reading Club is currently held in a Zoom Pro room. Participation is open to everyone, including not-yet OWCA members. To ensure a safe space for open communication and interaction, these sessions will not be recorded.
Register
You can register for a reading club through the scheduling system below. Follow these steps:

Select your time zone from the drop-down menu
Click the “Register” button next to the event you’d like to attend
Fill out the registration form and click “Complete Registration”
Save your confirmation email to have the Zoom information or cancel your registration later. You can also respond to this email to contact the event organizers.

A reminder email will also be sent the morning of the event.

Executive Board Applications Due (Extended)
2022-11-06
The OWCA is still accepting applications for the following Officer positions on the Executive Board:

Vice President
Assistant Treasurer
Student Representative (2 openings)
Outreach Coordinator

Anyone is welcome to apply. Applications are due November 6 (by end of the day).

Informational Session: Election Application Workshop
2022-10-20 17:00 - 18:00
In this informational session, you can learn about open Officer positions, learn effective practices for writing an application, and receive feedback on your application.
Open Positions
The following Officer positions are open for applications:

Vice President
Assistant Treasurer
Assistant Secretary
Diversity & Social Justice Chair
Diversity & Social Justice Co-Chair
Accessibility Co-Chair
Virtual Events Co-Chair
Student Representative (2 openings)
Website Coordinator
Outreach Coordinator

Who Can Attend
Informational sessions are open to everyone. Please come learn more about the OWCA!
Register
You can register for an informational session through the scheduling system below. Follow these steps:

Select your time zone from the drop-down menu
Click the “Register” button next to the event you’d like to attend
Fill out the registration form and click “Complete Registration”
Save your confirmation email to have the Zoom information or cancel your registration later. You can also respond to this email to contact the event organizers.

A reminder email will also be sent the day of the event.

OWCA Conference Proposals Due
2022-10-15
The deadline for OWCA conference proposals is October 15, 2022, at 11:59PM Pacific Time.
We accept written proposals ( about 500 words), audio proposals (5 minutes or less), and video proposals (5 minutes or less).
Important Links

Conference Proposal Submission

Submit a proposal to the 2023 OWCA conference

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Accessibility Guides

Use OWCA's Accessibility Resources

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Informational Session: End-of-Year Recap
2022-10-14 15:00 - 16:00
In this informational session, you can meet current OWCA Executive Board members and learn about:

The structure of the OWCA
Member dues and benefits
Yearly objectives and action items
Events and resources
Committee volunteer opportunities
Open positions on the Executive Board

Who Can Attend
Informational sessions are open to everyone. Please come learn more about the OWCA!
Register
You can register for an informational session through the scheduling system below. Follow these steps:

Select your time zone from the drop-down menu
Click the “Register” button next to the event you’d like to attend
Fill out the registration form and click “Complete Registration”
Save your confirmation email to have the Zoom information or cancel your registration later. You can also respond to this email to contact the event organizers.

A reminder email will also be sent the day of the event.

"Fostering a Culture of Research in Your Writing Center" presented by Dr. Candis Bond, Dr. Scott Whiddon, and Dr. Carolyn Wisniewski
2022-10-04 15:00 - 16:00
Webinars provide a space to share experiences, ideas, strategies, and questions about online writing centers (OWCs).
Event Details

Presenters: Dr. Candis Bond, Dr. Scott Whiddon, and Dr. Carolyn Wisniewski
Title: “Fostering a Culture of Research in Your Writing Center“
Hosting Organization: Online Writing Centers Association

This webinar will engage the audience in a discussion of how writing center directors, at a variety of institutions, have created a culture of tutor research in their own respective writing centers. Such work not only allows for more substantive student support but also helps justify center needs and creates a stronger, more visible campus identity. Panelists will talk about how investigating everyday writing center practices can lead to presentations and publications.

ASL Interpretation and Recording
We work with Morr Interpreting to provide American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters in each webinar. Webinars are recorded, given edited closed captions, and shared in our Event Archive up to 2 weeks after the event date.
Guidelines for Participating
Webinars are currently held in a Zoom Pro room. Participation is open to everyone, including not-yet OWCA members. To ensure our interpreters are visible and can translate without auditory or visual distractions, we ask that participants keep their audio and video turned off during the event. Participants are welcome to ask questions and contribute in the chat.
Recording
This event will be recorded, and the recording will be available to the public.
Register
You can register for a webinar through the scheduling system below. Follow these steps:

Select your time zone from the drop-down menu
Click the “Register” button next to the event you’d like to attend
Fill out the registration form and click “Complete Registration”
Save your confirmation email to have the Zoom information or cancel your registration later. You can also respond to this email to contact the event organizers.

A reminder email will also be sent the day of the event.

Reading Club: Why I Call It the Academic Ghetto
2022-09-14 15:00 - 16:00
Reading club provides a space to discuss writing center scholarship. Based on the article or chapter chosen, participants will share experiences, ideas, strategies, and questions about online writing centers (OWCs). This Reading Club will discuss “Why I Call It the Academic Ghetto: A Critical Examination of Race, Place, and Writing Centers” by Alexandria Lockett in Praxis: A Writing Center Journal.
Reading Abstract
“This article investigates my lived experience as a black queer writing center tutor for the purposes of theorizing the transformative power of learning centers. Drawing on several perspectives and methods offered in Praxis’s special issue on Access and Equity in Graduate Writing Support, this article argues that the antiracist potential of writing centers depends on more comprehensive analyses of how writing centers function as racialized places. Using the metaphor of the “academic ghetto,” I signify on the misconception of writing centers as places for correcting deficiency. I apply my analysis to both an Undergraduate Writing Center (WCs) and a Graduate Writing Center (GWC) space to systematically discover how racial biases mediate and construct these learning spaces. In particular, I structure my discussion through a blend of personal narrative and critical analysis that illustrates the epistemic conflict and character of the “academic ghetto.” The article concludes with a call to invent antiracist practices for writing centers that model more inclusive methods of living in these spaces.”
Guidelines for Participating
Reading Club is currently held in a Zoom Pro room. Participation is open to everyone, including not-yet OWCA members. To ensure a safe space for open communication and interaction, these sessions will not be recorded.
Register
You can register for a reading club through the scheduling system below. Follow these steps:

Select your time zone from the drop-down menu
Click the “Register” button next to the event you’d like to attend
Fill out the registration form and click “Complete Registration”
Save your confirmation email to have the Zoom information or cancel your registration later. You can also respond to this email to contact the event organizers.

A reminder email will also be sent the morning of the event.

"Story Culture Live" with Clarissa J. Walker
2022-08-24 13:00 - 14:00
Webinars provide a space to share experiences, ideas, strategies, and questions about online writing centers (OWCs).
Event Details

Presenter: Clarissa J. Walker
Title: “Story Culture Live: Homegrown Storytelling as Actionable Anti-Racism Work“
Hosting Organization: Online Writing Centers Association

On Wednesday, August 24th at 1 p.m., Clarissa J. Walker will present “Story Culture Live: Homegrown Storytelling as Actionable Anti-Racism Work.” Clarissa will introduce the components of the SCL framework: Agency, Kinship, Tensions, and Identification and offer anecdotal examples from her Story Culture Live podcast to illustrate the framework in use. Finally, Clarissa will lead a group activity that applies these actionable anti-racism principles to writing tutor-client sessions.

ASL Interpretation and Recording
We work with Morr Interpreting to provide American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters in each webinar. Webinars are recorded, given edited closed captions, and shared in our Event Archive up to 2 weeks after the event date.
Guidelines for Participating
Webinars are currently held in a Zoom Pro room. Participation is open to everyone, including not-yet OWCA members. To ensure our interpreters are visible and can translate without auditory or visual distractions, we ask that participants keep their audio and video turned off during the event. Participants are welcome to ask questions and contribute in the chat.
Recording
This event will be recorded, and the recording will be available to the public.
Register
You can register for a webinar through the scheduling system below. Follow these steps:

Select your time zone from the drop-down menu
Click the “Register” button next to the event you’d like to attend
Fill out the registration form and click “Complete Registration”
Save your confirmation email to have the Zoom information or cancel your registration later. You can also respond to this email to contact the event organizers.

A reminder email will also be sent the day of the event.

Webinar: What's Your Story? with Rikki Corniola (2022)
2022-07-20 15:00 - 16:00
Webinars provide a space to share experiences, ideas, strategies, and questions about online writing centers (OWCs).
Event Details

Presenter: Rikki Corniola
Title: “What’s Your Story?: Work backwards from your goals to identify data points and evidence to support your writing center”
Hosting Organization: Online Writing Centers Association

This webinar will engage the audience in a discussion of the story they want to tell administrators about their writing center, and how to work backwards to identify necessary data collection to help them tell that story effectively. We will encourage participants to consider the data they already collect for their writing center, what they need to collect to tell their story, how to set clear goals/outcomes for the writing center and how to align those with institutional goals and outcomes.

ASL Interpretation and Recording
We work with Morr Interpreting to provide American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters in each webinar. Webinars are recorded, given edited closed captions, and shared in our Event Archive up to 2 weeks after the event date.
Guidelines for Participating
Webinars are currently held in a Zoom Pro room. Participation is open to everyone, including not-yet OWCA members. To ensure our interpreters are visible and can translate without auditory or visual distractions, we ask that participants keep their audio and video turned off during the event. Participants are welcome to ask questions and contribute in the chat.
Recording
This event will be recorded, and the recording will be available to the public.
Register
You can register for a webinar through the scheduling system below. Follow these steps:

Select your time zone from the drop-down menu
Click the “Register” button next to the event you’d like to attend
Fill out the registration form and click “Complete Registration”
Save your confirmation email to have the Zoom information or cancel your registration later. You can also respond to this email to contact the event organizers.

A reminder email will also be sent the day of the event.

Registration Deadline: Mentoring Group Cohort 2
2022-05-25 - 2022-06-10
Registration for the OWCA Membership Group Cohort 2 of 2022 is now open until June 10! Cohort 2 will run from July—December 2022 with a kick-off meeting in early July.
Participants of Cohort 1 who would like to participate in Cohort 2 (either in their current mentoring group or a new group) should also register for Cohort 1 (you will be asked to complete a shorter registration form).
Learn more about Mentoring Groups>>
If you’re an OWCA member, you can register for a Mentoring Group>>
If you are not an OWCA member, please join the OWCA to register.

Reading Club: Rhetoric of Labor Activism in Writing Centers
2022-05-24 14:00 - 15:00
Reading club provides a space to discuss writing center scholarship. Based on the article or chapter chosen, participants will share experiences, ideas, strategies, and questions about online writing centers (OWCs). This Reading Club will discuss “Toward a Rhetoric of Labor Activism in College and University Writing Centers” by Liliana M. Naydan in Praxis: A Writing Center Journal.
Reading Abstract
This essay considers the present degree of the writing center field’s engagement with labor activism in the age of the corporate university and argues that writing center practitioners are well positioned to reconstitute their identities: to re-envision themselves and their colleagues as poised to engage in activist rhetorics and live lives as academic activists. By employing a rhetoric of labor activism and thereby addressing labor issues in more robust ways alongside professional organizations that represent them, writing centers can work to revitalize shared governance and academic freedom, both of which are threatened by corporatizing forces, and they can influence emergent institutional and professional histories.
Guidelines for Participating
Reading Club is currently held in a Zoom Pro room. Participation is open to everyone, including not-yet OWCA members. To ensure a safe space for open communication and interaction, these sessions will not be recorded.
Register
You can register for a reading club through the scheduling system below. Follow these steps:

Select your time zone from the drop-down menu
Click the “Register” button next to the event you’d like to attend
Fill out the registration form and click “Complete Registration”
Save your confirmation email to have the Zoom information or cancel your registration later. You can also respond to this email to contact the event organizers.

A reminder email will also be sent the morning of the event.

Conference Co-Chair Applications Due
2022-05-11
The OWCA Board is looking to fill the following position as soon as possible and will review initial applications during their next Board meeting on May 12. For first consideration, please submit by May 11, 2022.

Conference Co-Chair

Engaging Writers Online: A Tutor-Centered Conversation
2022-04-12 15:00 - 16:00
Event Details

Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2022, 3-4 pm EST/1-2 pm MST
Title: “Engaging Writers Online: A Tutor-Centered Conversation”
Hosting Organization: Rocky Mountain Writing Centers Association (RMWCA) and Online Writing Centers Association (OWCA)

Event Description
The Rocky Mountain Writing Centers Association (RMWCA) and Online Writing Centers Association (OWCA) are excited to announce a co-sponsored event titled “Engaging Writers Online: A Tutor-Centered Conversation” on Tuesday, April 12 at 3 pm EST/1 pm MST.
During this hour-long conversation, a panel of student tutors will discuss ways they have successfully engaged writers in a range of online tutoring situations and modalities. The goal of this conversation is to put tutors’ critical work in the spotlight, as they share insights on practices that have proven useful in bridging the virtual divide between tutor and writer.
We invite all tutors, both student and professional, who are interested in sharing their own effective online practices and/or would like to learn more about practices other tutors have used to promote writer engagement in online spaces. We also welcome administrators to the conversation to listen and learn about the practices, tricks, and tips online tutors have built into their online tutoring work.
Recording
This event will not be recorded.
Who Can Attend
This event is open to everyone.
Register
Registration is encouraged on the RMWCA website, but registration is not required.

Executive Board Applications Due
2022-03-09
The OWCA Board is looking to fill the following positions as soon as possible and will review initial applications during their next Board meeting on March 10. For first consideration, please submit by March 9, 2022.
Please click the links below to learn more about each position and submit an application:

Conference Chair
Website Coordinator
Grant Coordinator

Informational Session
2022-03-04 11:00 - 12:00
In this informational session, you can meet the OWCA Executive Board and learn about:

The structure of the organization
Public resources
Member dues and benefits
Goals and objectives for the year
Open positions on the Executive Board (please apply by March 9 for first consideration)
Committee volunteer opportunities

There will be time for attendees to ask questions and tell us what we can do to better support you!
Who Can Attend
This event is open to everyone. Please come learn more about the OWCA!

Applications for Executive Board Positions Due
2021-11-08
The OWCA is accepting applications and nominations for Officer positions on the Executive Board. Terms begin in January 2022. The application deadline has been extended to November 8.
Please click the links below to learn more about each position and submit an application or nomination:

Diversity & Social Justice Co-Chair
Accessibility Co-Chair
Student Representative
Grant Coordinator

Meet and Greet with the OWCA Executive Board
2021-10-06 14:00 - 15:00
The following session is hosted during the OWCA conference. It is open to the public and will be recorded. You do not need to be an OWCA member to attend.
Presenters include Jenelle Dembsey, Sarah Prince, Beth Nastachowski, Elle Tyson, Megan Boeshart, Paula Rawlins, and Brooke Hessler.
Abstract
In this session, attendees can meet members of the OWCA Executive Board, learn about opportunities to join OWCA committees, and learn how to apply for openings on the Executive Board. There will be time for attendees to ask questions and tell us what we can do to better support you!
Find the Zoom information for this session>>

2021 OWCA Conference
2021-10-04 - 2021-10-08
The OWCA’s first virtual conference will take place asynchronously and synchronously around the theme of interdependence in the online writing center.
How to Attend

To attend the OWCA conference, you just need to be a current student, professional, or institutional member of the OWCA. There are no additional registration fees, forms, or deadlines.
If you are not currently an OWCA member, please join the OWCA to attend our conference.

OWCA Conference Materials Due
2021-09-20
OWCA conference presenters must submit their presentation materials by September 20, 2021. Please visit the following pages for assistance in developing your materials.

Consultations for Conference Presenters
2021-09-06 - 2021-09-10
The OWCA welcomes our conference presenters to schedule an online writing consultation for their 2021 OWCA conference materials. Presenters can schedule a consultation to:

Brainstorm ideas
Receive feedback on the content of their presentation
Get help understanding or meeting the accessibility requirements
Practice their presentation
Get help with recording their asynchronous presentation
Ask questions

OWCA Webinar | Introduction to Digital Accessibility Principles
2021-08-10 15:00 - 16:30
Event Details

Date: August 10, 2021, 3-4:30pm EST
Presenter: J. M. Dembsey
Title: “Introduction to Digital Accessibility Principles”
Hosting Organization: Online Writing Centers Association

Download Presentation Materials

Slidedeck – Intro to Digital Accessibility Principles (PPT)
Transcript – Intro to Digital Accessibility Principles (Word)
Exercises 1-5 Worksheet (Word)
Exercise 6 – Example Inaccessible Document (Word)
Exercises 1-5 (answer key) (Word)
Exercise 6 (answer key) (Word)

Event Description
In this webinar, attendees will learn how to apply basic digital accessibility principles, including headings, bulleted and numbered lists, descriptive hyperlinks, alternative text, and image descriptions. Examples will be provided, and attendees will have an opportunity to practice discussing and applying these principles in Microsoft Word. This workshop is intended both to assist presenters in creating accessible presentation materials for the upcoming OWCA conference and to inform the larger writing center community of accessibility principles they can apply in everyday digital contexts.
Related Works by the Presenter

“Naming Ableism” by J. M. Dembsey
“Writing Center Administrator Guidance in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Progression of a Position Statement” by Marilee Brooks-Gillies, Lisa Bell, J. M. Dembsey, & Duane Theobald

ASL Interpreting and Recording
American Sign Language interpretation will be provided. This webinar will be recorded. Please see our participation guidelines.
Support the OWCA
This event is offered for free to the writing center community. If you can, become an OWCA member or donate to the OWCA so we can continue to hire ASL interpreters and make our events accessible

Writing Consultations for OWCA Conference Proposals
2021-04-19 00:00 - 2021-04-23 12:00
The OWCA welcomes you to schedule an online writing consultation to receive feedback on your 2021 OWCA conference proposal. OWCA members and non-members are both welcome to participate at any point in the process, whether you are just brainstorming ideas or already have a draft of your proposal.

Deadline for Executive Board Applications
2020-11-06
OWCA members can apply to serve on the Executive Board. We have the following openings:

1 Conference Organizer
3 At-Large Representatives
2 Student Representatives

The deadline for applications is November 6, 2020. We will contact applicants by November 20, 2020.
Learn more about the openings and how to apply>>

OWCA SIG | Meet the Executive Board
2020-10-29 17:15 - 18:00
Event Details

Date: October 29, 2020, 5:15-6:00pm EST
Presenters: Jenelle Dembsey, Sarah Prince, and Elle Tyson (OWCA Executive Board)
Event: Listen. Learn. Lead.: An online event hosted by the International Writing Centers Association (IWCA)

Event Description
This special interest group (SIG) will introduce the new Online Writing Centers Association, including (a) the association’s mission and 2021 goals, (b) opportunities for membership, and (c) options for committee work, board positions, and other ways to get involved. Attendees can meet the OWCA Executive Board and share ideas for resources and support.
Register
Please register for this free event through the International Writing Center Association’s (IWCA) membership website. You do not need to be an active IWCA member to attend.
Zoom Information
You can enter the OWCA SIG through the Zoom information below:
Join Zoom Meeting:

https://zoom.us/j/95508387027
Meeting ID: 955 0838 7027

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OWCA Webinar | Enacting Antiracism in Asynchronous Writing Consultations
2020-10-26 15:00 - 16:30
Event Details

Date: October 26, 2020, 3-4:30pm EST
Presenter: Eric Camarillo
Title: “Enacting Antiracism in Asynchronous Writing Consultations”
Hosting Organization: Online Writing Centers Association

Event Description
The goal of this presentation is to reframe the value of asynchronous writing center work and to demonstrate why it should be seen as an innovation rather than a disruption, a valid option for students, rather than a subpar alternative. In particular, this presentation aims to be generative for writing center practitioners hoping to incorporate antiracist practices into their centers.
Related Works by the Presenter

Cultivating Antiracism in Asynchronous Sessions by Eric Camarillo
Dismantling Neutrality: Cultivating Antiracist Writing Center Ecologies by Eric Camarillo

ASL Interpreting and Recording
American Sign Language interpretation will be provided. This webinar will be recorded. Please see our participation guidelines.
Donate Through PayPal
This event is offered for free to the writing center community. If you can, please donate through PayPal so we can continue to hire ASL interpreters and make our events accessible. Any amount helps!

OWCC Webinar | Racial Justice and Online Writing Center Praxis
2020-10-02 16:00 - 17:30
Event Details

Date: October 2, 2020, 4-5:30pm EST
Presenter: Zandra L. Jordan
Title: “Racial Justice and Online Writing Center Praxis”
Hosting Organization: Online Writing Centers Community

Event Description
In this webinar, participants will explore the ways our commitments to antiracism and racial justice can translate into online writing center praxis. Zandra will share ways that her identity informs her ethics and invite participants to explore their own values and the commitments that shape the identities of their writing centers. Rather than a one-size-fits-all approach to promoting racial justice through writing center practice, the webinar will stress that by examining our shared commitments and values, we can think through our individual contexts and determine strategies for action.
The first step is to develop a clear ethic: we need to recognize and account for race in our writing center work and then question what a justice-oriented approach should look like. This is particularly important in our current moment when so many writing centers have shifted to online delivery and the nation is reeling from ongoing racialized violence and persistent systemic racism. The webinar will therefore recommend strategies for ensuring that our practices and engagement with writers through the online medium are promoting racial justice.
Webinar participants will:

Inquire about their ethics and values around antiracism and racial justice
Recognize that neither asynchronous nor synchronous online writing center interactions are neutral
Reflect on how attitudes around race and difference are encoded into the language we use when giving verbal and written feedback
Acknowledge the unique challenges with and opportunities for racial justice in an online writing center
Tailor an ethic of racial justice to their particular contexts

ASL Interpreting and Recording
American Sign Language interpretation will be provided. This webinar will be recorded and posted in our Events Archive. Please see our participation guidelines.

OWCC Webinar | Shaping Online Tutoring Practice: Research and Reflection over Replication
2020-09-08 13:00 - 14:00
Event Details

Date: September 8, 2020, 1-2pm EST
Presenter: Lisa Eastmond Bell
Title: “Shaping Online Tutoring Practice: Research and Reflection over Replication”
Hosting Organization: Online Writing Centers Community
Registration: Register Online>>

Event Description
Online tutoring at its best is shaped by learners and learning and not simply an attempt to replicate in-person tutoring practices. As writing centers grapple with the logistics of online programming, this webinar presentation will help attendees to:

Use existing research to evaluate the benefits of asynchronous and synchronous tutoring
Recognize what writing centers and learners can gain as tutoring goes online
Reflect on values needed to rethink online tutoring and approaches to tutor training

American Sign Language interpretation will be provided. This webinar will be recorded.

GSOLE Webinar | Racial Justice in Virtual Tutoring: Considerations for Antiracist Online Writing Center Praxis
2020-08-31 16:00 - 17:30
Event Details

Date: August 31, 2020, 4-5:30pm EST
Presenter: Zandra Jordan
Title: “Racial Justice in Virtual Tutoring: Considerations for Antiracist Online Writing Center Praxis”
Hosting Organization: Global Society for Online Literacy Educators (GSOLE)
Cost: Free for GSOLE members; $15 for non-GSOLE members
Registration: Register Online>>

Event Description
The webinar will explore the ways our commitments to antiracism and racial justice can translate into online writing center tutoring practice. The leader, Zandra, will share the ways her identity informs her ethics, and will invite participants to explore their own values and the values that shape the identities of their writing centers. Rather than a one-size-fits-all approach to promoting racial justice through writing center practice, the webinar will stress that by examining our shared commitments and values, we can think through our individual contexts and determine strategies for action.
The first step is to develop a clear ethic: we need to recognize and account for race in our writing center practice, and then question what a justice-oriented practice should look like. This is particularly important in our current moment, when so many writing centers have shifted to online delivery. This webinar will thus recommend strategies for ensuring that our practices and our engagement with writers through the online medium are promoting racial justice.
Webinar participants will:

Inquire about their ethics and values around racial justice and antiracism
Reflect on how attitudes around race and difference are encoded into the language we use when we give verbal and written feedback
Recognize that neither asynchronous nor synchronous online writing center interactions are neutral
Acknowledge the unique challenges with and opportunities for antiracist praxis in an online writing center
Tailor an ethic of racial justice to their particular contexts

Webinar: Online Tutoring: Tips, Tricks, and Advice from Those Who Have Been There
2020-07-29 11:30 - 13:00
Is your WC going online in the fall? Are you utilizing your online tutoring tools more than ever before? Do you have questions about how to do this well? IWCA is sponsoring a webinar that may be able to help.
Join us on Wednesday, July 29th from 11:30-1pm EST for an event that will focus on the nuts and bolts of synchronous and asynchronous tutoring, and online communication tools you can use to connect to your staff and to your writers. Our presenters have had significant experience with online tutoring and want to share their work with you.
Below is the schedule:Online Tutoring: Tips, Tricks, and Advice from Those Who Have Been There OR Everything You Wanted to Know about Online Tutoring
11:30: Introductions
11:35: Dan Gallagher and Aimee Maxfield presentation about asynchronous tutoring
11:50: Jenelle Dembsey presentation about synchronous tutoring
12:05: Megan Boeshart and Kim Fahle presentation about communication technologies useful for facilitating online tutoring work
12:20: Open for Q&A
While there will be an opportunity to ask questions in the chat box during and after the presentations, we would also ask that you submit your questions ahead of time to holly.ryan@psu.edu. Please send your questions no later than Tuesday, July 28th.
This event is free. This event will be recorded and posted on the IWCA webpage within one week of the presentation. This presentation will also have sign language interpreters. While this event is targeted at writing center administrators, tutors and other writing center staff are welcome to join.
If you have questions, please send them to Holly Ryan at holly.ryan@psu.edu.
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://psu.zoom.us/j/96837785410?pwd=[REDACTED]
Passcode: [REDACTED]
