Call for Proposals: 3T’s Engaging Students with Transliteracy, Technology and Teaching

The  3T’s Engaging Students with Transliteracy, Technology and Teaching has put out a call for proposals.

Call for Proposals (deadline December 1, 2011)

3Ts 2012: Engaging Students with Teaching, Technology, and Transliteracy.

• Do you collaborate with colleagues, using various technologies that have created an effective learning module?
• Have you created a successful teaching collaboration with colleagues that incorporates technology and/or with emphasis on metaliteracy?
• Do you use a mode of metaliteracy or transliteracy that you have found to be effective?
• Are you using innovative technologies to assist with learning in the classroom and/or virtually?
• Do you use your students’ fluency across media, modes, and disciplines to enhance their learning experiences?
• Have you been successful in blending various modes of technology into your teaching?
• Are you interested in integrating technology and transliteracy into your teaching?
• Do you use teaching models that include team-based or project based-learning in conjuction with any 21st Century literacy?

If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions, the conference planning committee for The 3 T’s: Exploring New Frontiers in Teaching, Technology, and Transliteracy wants YOU to submit a proposal here:

Proposal Form: http://bit.ly/tOxJIO

Don’t miss out on your chance to share your innovative classroom methods and achievements!

Proposals should address the following questions:

• How have you drawn upon metaliteracy or transliteracy to support student learning?
• How have underlying principles and theories guided your inclusion of a specific technology or technologies in the classroom?
• How did teaching and technology connect to improve both technological literacy and learning?
• How has your teaching style or method changed as technology is now infused into your course?

As proposals undergo a peer-reviewprocess, emphasis on the following are highly encouraged:

• Connecting theory to practice as discussed and modeled through your proposal, presentation, and delivery
• Collaborative projects/lesson plans that could include (but are not limited to) cross-disciplinary teaching, faculty/librarian partnerships, partnerships with instructional designers and librarians or faculty, and K-12/college experiences

Proposals can include any meaningful integration of technology and teaching used to support the growing number of literacies students need for learning and succeeding in today’s information-rich academic and professional worlds.

Possible tracks and technologies might include:

Literacies:

• Information literacy
• Visual literacy
• Digital literacy
• Media literacy
• Cultural literacy
• Critical literacy

Technologies:

• Open Source
• Web 2.0
• Social Networking (Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Ning)
• Mobile Technology (Mobile apps, texting)
• Classroom Technologies (Smartboards, Tablets)
• Collaborative Technology (Wikis)
• Multimedia (Podcasts, Vcasts)

Conference sessions will consist of 45 minutes speaking/workshop time with 15 minutes allocated for Q&A  OR a 2 hour hands on interactive workshop.

Questions regarding proposals can be asked of Mark McBride at mcbridmf@buffalostate.edu

Submissions must be received by December 1st. Participants will be notified by December 15th.