Wednesday, August 17, and Thursday, August 18, 9-4 p.m., Heavilon 227

All new instructors should plan on attending for both days of PW Orientation. Continuing instructors are invited to attend any and all sessions.

Professional Writing Website: http://pw.english.purdue.edu [ Note: this website is entirely new and still in development, offering plenty of content about the program and resources for students and instructors. In addition, there are new features that will help people share files, ideas, strategies, and information. Please take a look before orientation starts to see what's there!]

URL for Teacher Resources: http://pw.english.purdue.edu/resources [Resources, including the approved course goals and guidelines, templates, and other useful documents will be placed on this page as they become available, so keep checking!]

URL for Support Team: http://pw.english.purdue.edu/support

 Materials and Information to Bring

• PW Online Access Code
• Career Account username and password (the first part of your Purdue email account and your password, if you have them already)
• Pen drive or recordable CD so that you can save files in the event you don’t yet have a Career Account.

Orientation and Support Team

• David Blakesley, Director of PW
• Michael Salvo, 505M Prof (salvo@purdue.edu)
• Peg Dunkle, Assistant Director of PW (dunklem@purdue.edu)
• Karl Stolley, PW Technology Coordinator (stolley@purdue.edu)
• Charlie Lowe, Technology Mentor for PW/ICaP (cel4145@cyberdash.com)

Wednesday, August 17 ( 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.; Heavilon 227)

9:00-10:15: Getting Acquainted, Introduction to the PW Program and ENGL 420/421, Program Goals [Heavilon 227; Blakesley/Dunkle/Salvo]
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-12:00 Rhetorical Approaches/Pedagogies in 420/421 [Heavilon 227] [Blakesley/Dunkle/Salvo]
12:00-1:15 Lunch (on your own)
1:15-1:30 Additional Introductions of Support Team [Heavilon 227; Stolley, Lowe, Jordan]
1:30-3:30 Introduction to Course Technologies and Drupal [Heavilon 227; Lowe, Stolley, Blakesley]
3:30-4:00: Course Templates. Course Projects, Developing Course Materials

Thursday, August 19 ( 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.; Heavilon 227)

9:00-9:45: Introduction to PW Online [Heavilon 227; Dunkle, Blakesley]
9:45-10:30: Discussion of Course Projects [Heavilon 227; Dunkle, Blakesley, Salvo]
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:00 Course Projects, cont. Employment Project, Open Source Development and Documentation Project [Heavilon 227]
12:00-1:00 Lunch (on your own)
1:00-2:30 Developing Course Materials and Drupal Sites* [Heavilon 227; Stolley, Dunkle, Blakesley]
2:30-2:45 Break
2:45-3:45 Continue Developing Course Materials [Heavilon 227; Blakesley, Dunkle]
3:45-4:00 Preview of English 505M [Heavilon 227; Salvo]

* Also on Thursday afternoon from 1 - 4 p.m., Charlie Lowe will have open hours in Heavilon 404 to help any PW instructors with Drupal and course sites.