Author: Michael Healy

Michael is a PhD candidate at Florida State University where he is researching techne, creativity, and textx-technologies.

Presenters: Margaret Frozena (Eastern Kentucky University) and James F. McClure (Eastern Kentucky University) Chair/Speaker: Dominic Ashby (Eastern Kentucky University) This panel featured three speakers’ experiences in designing and delivering composition courses using grading contracts and ePortfolios. It did so from three different perspectives: a tenure-track professor, an instructor, and a graduate student serving as a Course Embedded Consultant (CEC). In working with the conference theme, this panel from EKU explored how the combination of contracts and ePortfolios supported, enabled, and encouraged students’ performances of writing, identities as writers, and views of their projects having trajectories well beyond the course itself.…

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