Consultant Welcome

Dear Consultants: The OUWCWriteSpace blog is a complement to our other professional development (PD) outlets. It offers us an additional way to meet without the contraints of real time and to share our consulting successes, questions, and mishaps while they are fresh in our minds. As such, you can add blogging to the downtime activities' menu. Each week by Friday, I would like at least one of us to post a short anecdote and a question, a short article and a query, or some other item of interest. I'd rather these posts emerge organically from our experience in the OUWC or from our reading, but if a volunteer schedule does not yield results, I might turn to assigning each of you a week. IF our consulting schedule becomes too laborious to accomodate blogging on site at the OUWC (during your regularly scheduled shift), I will gladly compensate you for more extensive posts, such as locating an article on a timely topic, linking to it, digesting it for us, and querying our experience/opinions. Instead of adding the hours to your time sheet, please email me with PD-Blog in the subject line, and I will add the hours as a separate entry. If other PD options emerge, please bring them to my attention. For example, I need consultants to help me facilitate a consulting simulation and practice session for 9th graders in Writing Academy that will sponsor with Pre-College Programs on Saturday mornings in October. I also have an opportunity to bring some of you into a 5th grade language arts classroom to model consulting and workshopping. These are some of the events for which I will provide additional compenstion. If it is agreeable to you, I plan to invite RHT 320 students to share our blog later in the semester. For now, I have limited this invitation to the course faculty, Barbara Hamilton and Marshall Kitchens. Well, this is all I can offer for now. It's literally time for me to get the bagels, or we won't have a palate-pleasing meeting at 8 AM. Sherry