Community Outreach
Student View Since 2011, Georgia Tech’s Writing and Communication Program has sponsored Student View, a juried art exhibition of 2D, 3D, and animated art created by students as part of their coursework in the Writing and Communication Program. Pictured are Doris Bremm (R, Brittain Fellow 2010-2013), the first chair of Student View who curated and mounted the exhibition, and Jennifer Holley Lux, the second chair of Student View (Brittain Fellow 2011-2014). The current chair of the Arts Initiative Committee is Caitlin Kelly (Brittain Fellow, 2013-2016). The exhibition is held every spring at the Ferst Center. An abbreviated version is part of Georgia Tech Night at the High Museum.
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GTRI/Ware County High School Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) and the Writing and Communication Program (WCP) work together with faculty at Ware County High School (WCHS) in southern Georgia. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellows and WCP leadership have used HighDef video to provide lectures and workshops to WCHS students in AP classes as well as reading strategies classes. Pictured are two of the WCHS faculty who attended a workshop focusing on ways to integrate multimodal communication into the high school English, reading, physics, and history.
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Presence at Celebrating Teaching Day Every spring, Georgia Tech’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) sponsors Celebrating Teaching Day—and every year the Writing and Communication Program has a visible presence. Typically, 10-20 Brittain Fellows create and display posters that highlight one of their multimodal assignments. Their posters also provide information about their teaching philosophy and feature student artifacts. The photo presents some of the Brittain Fellows who participated in the 2015 event.
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Book Fair The Writing and Communication Program (WCP) sponsors a spring book fair for all faculty in the Writing and Communication Program and the School of Literature, Media, and Communication—with sample books in a range of areas in English studies, including composition, rhetoric, poetry, nonfiction and fiction, linguistics, drama and performance, film, digital media. Pictured is Carol Senf talking with book reps from Oxford UP. In the background are book reps from Macmillan/Bedford St. Martin’s (publishers of WOVENText, WCP’s custom textbook for English 1101/1102).
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France–Atlanta 2014 Colleagues in the Writing and Communication Program—especially Jennifer Orth-Veillon (Brittain Fellow 2011-2014; Lecturer 2015) and Andy Frazee (Brittain Fellow 2010-2013; Assistant Director 2012; Associate Director 2012-2015) worked with Professional Education at Georgia Tech and the French Consulate in Atlanta to offer a two-day conference as part of France–Atlanta 2014. The focus was on MOOCs and distance education in France and the US. Pictured are colleagues from France who were keynote speakers at the conference.
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