Four summer workshops are offered this year, focusing on topics ranging from writing strategies for the elementary classroom to digital storytelling. Applications for the workshops are due May 1. We keep expanding because people are interested and ask for new things.
More graduate credit is available at an additional cost.
Participants will learn how to use digital storytelling, which involves creating short multimedia presentations for dissemination on the World Wide Web, as an innovative new instructional method for the teaching of writing. The course will be taught by Caleb Paull from the Center for Digital Storytelling in Berkley, Calif., and Corey Harbaugh, a TCWP teacher consultant and member of the National Writing Project's Digital Storytelling team. Facilitated by Anne Lape, publishing house director at the Washington Writers' Academy in Kalamazoo, the workshop will address teaching the craft of writing, including such topics as effective teacher-student and peer writing conferences, teaching and encouraging revision, spelling, and using poetry to create a classroom community. Directed by Pen Campbell, an instructor at Lake Michigan Catholic High School in St. Joseph, and Scott Peterson from Mattawan Public Schools, the workshop offers participants time to focus on their own writing. All institutes will take place on the WMU campus and offer the opportunity for participants to receive WMU graduate credit.