The DCAL library is looking a little slim these days-if you have any DCAL library books in your office or home and are finished reading them, please bring them back to DCAL so others can enjoy them.  Thank you in advance!

Upcoming events at DCAL:

Faculty Learning Community on Grading, 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Wednesday, January 29, 2014

In response to the perennial conversation on campus regarding grade inflation, DCAL is offering a venue for faculty to explore different viewpoints and philosophies of grading through a faculty learning community on grading, grade inflation, and grading's role in learning.  This learning community will meet every 3 weeks throughout the term. Participants will choose discussion topics and readings.

Adaptable Writing Knowledge? Case Studies from Dartmouth Research on First-year Writing, 12:00pm - 1:30pm, Thursday, January 30, 2014

The Dartmouth Davis Study of First-year Student Writing collected and analyzed student essays from 2010-2013, studying patterns each year in 700 student essays across the first year courses. Results from that study have been reported on in previous Institute workshops. This past summer, Institute faculty read 25 case studies drawn from this larger study: essays from the same 25 students from the beginning to the end of their first-year sequence. We compared student strategies for introductions, conclusions, source use, and source integration from their Writing 2-3/5 to their First-year Seminar. In this session, offered by the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric, writing faculty Jed Dobson, Doug Moody, Lisa Lopez Snyder, Jenn Sargent, and Christiane Donahue will share highlights of what they learned and how it can inform our efforts to teach students writing strategies and choices that can be re-used and adapted in new contexts.

Talking about Language and Culture-Monthly Discussion Group, 2:30pm - 4:00pm, Thursday, January 30, 2014

Come share ideas about teaching languages and culture, get to know each other better, and create a community of teachers who care about language.

Lunch is provided at all midday events, please remember to register so that we may be sure to have enough food for all attendees.

Enjoy your weekend-

Elaine