Since 1980, the ODU English Department has hosted its Spring Conference on the Teaching of Writing here on campus, bringing together secondary and post-secondary writing teachers from throughout the Hampton Roads region and beyond. Our audience is typically a good mix of local high school English teachers who attend for continuing education, composition faculty from ODU and other regional and sometimes nationwide post-secondary institutions, and graduate students learning to teach writing here at ODU. This year we are expanding the conference to include a Pre-Conference Institute on Writing and Generative AI on February 5 from 12:00-3:00 in Webb Center. Thanks to the generous support of the College of Arts & Letters and The Thistle Foundation Fund of the Hampton Roads Community Foundation, we are inviting all interested ODU faculty to attend for free.
The Pre-Conference Institute is designed to help you develop strategies for teaching, assigning, and assessing writing in the age of generative AI. Whether your desire is to integrate generative AI tools into your classes, to develop strategies and assignments that discourage students from relying heavily on generative AI in their writing process, or somewhere in between, these workshops and presentations will help you strengthen your understanding of and approach to teaching, developing policies, creating assignments, and assessing student writing in the present moment. This half-day workshop will be facilitated by Elizabeth Losh, Co-Chair of the MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on Writing and AI.
A Zoom option will be available, and lunch will be provided for in-person attendees who register by January 29. Register for the Pre-Conference Institute on Writing and Generative AI Here.
Interested in attending more of the conference? Sign up using this Conference Registration Form.
For more information, contact Pre-Conference Institute Coordinator, Jenn Sloggie at jsloggie@odu.edu
