Hello-

Here is what is happening at DCAL next week:

Faculty Voice Group, Tuesdays from 4:30-6pm starting January 31st
The Faculty Voice Group helps faculty, new and old, improve their speaking voice and presence in the classroom, for lecturing and for leading discussions effectively. Relaxation, vocal expressiveness and strength, confidence, and finding the enjoyment in speaking are just some of the areas explored. Professor James Rice (Theater) leads this group; contact him for additional information. 
Sessions meet weekly through the term. Register for this series: http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/3052360

Award Winning Writing and Speaking: A Panel of Student Prize Winners of Dartmouth Writing and Speaking Contests, 12:40pm - 2:05pm, Wednesday, February 1, 2017 
Join students who have recently won awards for their writings and speeches at Dartmouth for a roundtable discussion on how they developed their exceptional work. Topics will include the opportunities and challenges of speaking and writing for different audiences, whether competition affects student writing and speaking, and how we can better make space in our classrooms for creative, innovative work. This Institute for Writing and Rhetoric session will be facilitated by Josh Compton. 
Lunch will be provided, please register here: http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/3033892

DCAL Book Club, 12:15pm - 1:15pm, Thursday, February 2, 2017
How can a focus on teaching reorient our scholarly field? Speaking about the experience of conceptualizing and editing the volume "MLA Approaches to Teaching the Literature of the American Civil War” (2016), Colleen Glenney Boggs (English) will lead a lunch-time discussion about ways in which teaching can reorient our fields of knowledge.  Register by January 27th to receive a copy of the book.
Lunch will be provided at noon, please register for this discussion here: http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/3051431

Enjoy your weekend!
Elaine

Elaine Livingston
Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL)
102 Baker-Berry Library
Hanover, NH  03755
p. 603-646-2655    f. 603-646-6906
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