The Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning (AEPL) is excited to announce a series of spring workshops. All events are offered free of charge and will take place on Zoom. Click here to register to attend one or more of the events (or paste this link in your browser: https://forms.gle/Ask4HTMMJgo1r1PH9). Registered participants will receive a Zoom link 1-2 days before each event. **Presenter biographies follow below.**
Friday, February 20, 3-4pm Eastern
Felt Sense and Digital Composing
Led by Alexis Larson, Indiana University
In this workshop, participants will engage in practices of attention that build on felt sense guidelines. After leading participants through an experiential exploration of these attentional modules, which include light movement, the facilitator will model a brief lecture on the media ecology of misinformation and facilitate a discussion on synchronicity, asynchronicity, in terms of "flow" and "drag," considering these concepts in the context of an advertising landscape that emphasizes speed, convenience, and smooth execution. Participants will be given sample teaching materials and a short, annotated bibliography.
Friday, March 13, 3-4pm Eastern (rescheduled)
Believing Exercises
Led by Nate Mickelson, New York University
In this workshop, participants will undertake three classroom exercises modeled on Peter Elbow’s believing game. Useful for writing, literature, and other disciplines, the exercises invite students to take intellectual risks with interpretation.
Friday, April 17, 3-4pm Eastern
Multimodal Climate Literacy in the Classroom
Led by Nick Kleese and Jasmine Kar Tang, University of Minnesota
This workshop features an activity called River of Life that is adapted from an exercise developed by Joyce Mercer and used by organizations around the world. River of Life enables an application of climate literacy in classrooms across disciplines. This gathering will deepen our understanding of climate literacy as a critical eco-civics as we reflect on our own relationships to the climate crisis.
Bring markers, pens, paper, and other materials to make visual art… and be ready to draw! Experience with drawing or writing is neither required nor expected.
Presenter Biographies:
Alexis Larson is a lecturer in writing and rhetoric at Indiana University Bloomington. In her research and courses, she harnesses interdisciplinary discourses, including human-animal studies, performance, and the study of technology and religion. She served as a member of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy for 4 years and co-edited issue 19, on teaching in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nate Mickelson teaches expository writing at New York University. He currently serves as Chair of AEPL. Nate’s scholarly writing has appeared in College Teaching, Pedagogy, Criticism, and Journal of Modern Literature, among other publications. He co-organized AEPL’s 2017, 2020, and 2024 summer conferences.
Jasmine Kar Tang (she/her/hers) is interested in how Asian American and Women of Color feminisms meet administrative practice, consulting pedagogies, and group facilitation. Her publications include essays in Praxis and Writing Center Journal, and she is co-editor of a forthcoming collection on supervisory practice in writing centers.
Nick Kleese (he/him/his) serves as Associate Director of Community Engagement at the Center for Climate Literacy at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, where he also teaches courses on children’s and young adult literature. He is currently the managing editor of Climate Literacy in Education.
Nate MickelsonClinical Professor
Director of Faculty Development
Expository Writing Program
New York University
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