Hello All,

Many of you have expressed an interest in being more involved in technology
for OWP and that you have the skills to help us out more than we have used
you.

This summer's Technology Matters Institute application offers us our first
chance to send a two-person team.  Please check out the information (dates,
criteria, etc.) online and let me know if you are interested.  Regardless, I
will be applying since I did not go last summer.  It is an intense and
rewarding week , spent immersed in booth technology and writing

If you are not interested now, are you interested at all?  Do you have
someone else you could/would recommend?

At some point, we will certainly need someone to help me and eventually to
take over the Technology Liaison job...

Later,
Sandra Effinger
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Subject: Application Available Online Today For Technology Matters 2007

-- Technology Liaisons Network Bulletin --

Dear TLs,

I hope you're beginning your new semester of school refreshed and
reinvigorated. It was great seeing you -- those of you able to make it -- at
the Annual Meeting in Nashville. The Annual Meeting Program Committee is
currently compiling the evaluations of workshop participants and the TL
Network Leadership Team plans to use those evaluations to plan next year's
strand of TL workshops.

I wanted to call your attention to the fact that that 2007 Technology
Matters Institute application is now available online. For those of you
unfamiliar with Tech Matters, it is an institute that provides an
opportunity to explore, through an inquiry lens, the intersections of
technology, teaching, and writing in support of local writing project site
goals.

Please note that the participant format of the institute has changed this
year. We are inviting TWO-PERSON TEAMS from local sites to attend, with at
least one person from the team being a site's technology liaison. It is you,
the TL, who should submit the application on behalf of your team. See all
the details of the application guidelines here:

http://www.writingproject.org/cs/nwpp/print/nwp_e/176

Tech Matters has been an incredibly successful event that has led to the
implementation of many important pieces of work at local sites, and that has
fostered the development of the larger community of TLs. Building upon that
success, the institute invites local site teams as participants in
recognition of the fact that, increasingly, there are teams at local sites
thinking through and leading work that involves technology, while
simultaneously building a site's capacity for future work in this area to
occur.

If you're interested in applying to Tech Matters this year, you might
consider kick-starting the process by having a conversation with your
director about your desire to attend with a second person from your site.

The deadline for applications is March 2.

If you have questions about this, please don't hesitate to send them to me,
Karen McComas, chair of the TL Network Leadership Team
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Writing Project ([log in to unmask]).

On behalf of the TL Network Leadership Team,

Karen McComas


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