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Back to work: after last week’s vacation in southern Pennsylvania, I’ve
\nreturned to the summer work regimen, earlier today holding five consultation
\nhours in the Writing Center. It’s just the second week of the Summer II
\nsession, so the scene was still. Two high school seniors-to-be came through
\nmid-day working on one-page summaries for a Summer Bridge course they are taking
\non campus. <\/p>\n

Now, again tonight I’m on the clock with a consulting experiment using iChat.
\nOur Writing Center is pushing for a couple of online options by the fall.
\nI’m on board with testing them out and fine-tuning them before the fall
\nsemester. Two-and-a-half hours on hand for drop-in IMing.
\nTemporarily this is aimed at lending support to SU writing courses taught in
\nManhattan this term. Within a week or so, the IM consultations will be
\nscheduled in advance, so the timing will be somewhat more structured. I’m on
\nuntil 11:30 p.m., so while it is quiet, why not blog?<\/p>\n

The other online offering through the Writing Center is asynchronous.
\nStudents complete a form and submit a work-in-progress to a list of consultants
\nwho respond in rotations. I responded to one last week while in PA.
\nI have many more apprehensions about drop-off consultations, largely because the
\nthreshold for engagement drops away for the student (some have called this the
\ndry cleaning model of WC work). The consultant addresses the student’s questions
\nor concerns with due diligence, but the dialogue is scaled way back. There
\nis no conversation, usually, just more ‘sending’ an hour’s worth of comments
\ninto the abyss.<\/p>\n

I’m sure I will have more to say about how it goes in the weeks to come.
\nMy appointment runs another five weeks, two weeks longer than my other summer
\nstints teaching an online intro to the humanities course and guiding four new
\nonline instructors through their first terms teaching via computer alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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