Teachers' conference There will be an online conference for teachers to discuss ideas with their colleagues and the term's professional writers. While this is fine, we stress that this must always be done under the teacher's supervision . One at a time, please We invite students to send in one work at a time so that they can engage in a discussion based upon the response they receive from authors and other particpants. This allows students the opportunity to incorporate responses into their work. It allows the writers to watch for development in individual students' writing.
Excerpts allow our authors and other participants to focus their comments.
And students can use the responses to consider specific parts of their work as it is being created. This will allow the people responding to their work to address them directly. We know there may be times when students may not want to be identified. For administrative purposes, pseudonyms must be consistent from piece to piece. Instructions on transferring writing via copying and pasting from your word processor to the online conferences are posted during the two-week orientation session.