Traveled lately?
Website Needs Your Photo Memories
View from Elmina Slave Castle, Ghana (Photo by Cathy Kroll)
The SSU Global & International Education Initiative is in the process
of creating a website to highlight those programs, research and classes
at SSU that have a global or international focus. The site will be a kind
of "virtual international center" for people surfing the web to learn
more about the university or looking for international connections while
they're here.
In order to make this website visually exciting, organizers are soliciting digital photographs by faculty or staff that may have been taken during study abroad or travel in another country to illustrate the site.
If you would like to participate, send no more than three digital photos (jpg or gif format images that are no more than 100 kb) to suzanne.toczyski@sonoma.edu.
Please include the following information for each photo: the name of the photographer, the approximate date the photo was taken (month and year if possible), the circumstances (study abroad in X, travel to Y), and a short identification of the images so the work can be credited.
For the initial version of the website, pictures will be collected until Aug. 21. New pictures will be rotated in as they are selected. "If you are heading to another country this summer or next fall, keep us in mind and choose your best three photos," Toczyski asks.
Miller Honored by Writing Workshop Brethren
Scott
Miller, PhD, Director of the SSU Writing Center, was chosen as
one of nine leaders for the 2006 Summer Institute of the International
Writing Centers Association which was held recently at Stanford
University. The Institute offers writing-center specialists (particularly
newer ones in the profession) an intensive opportunity to learn and think
about many aspects of the work of directing writing centers, from
pedagogical philosophies to physical layouts.
Miller co-led workshops in tutor training, budget planning and reporting, and the important role of play in tutoring and in the development of writing abilities, among other activities. "It was a huge honor to be asked to co-lead the Institute," Miller says. "It was certainly the best-run professional development experience I've ever participated in. All of my co-leaders were top-notch, nationally known scholars and administrators, and together we were a very effective working group."
The Summer Institute, now entering its fifth year of operation, will be held next year at Oregon State University.