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The Affiliates Committee is now soliciting proposals from current GSOLE members who would like to take part in a GSOLE-sponsored panel at the 2025 International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference in Fort Collins, CO. Find more information about the IWAC Conference Here. 

GSOLE's sponsored panel will be guaranteed acceptance to the IWAC 2025 program. To be considered for inclusion on this panel, please complete this form with your contact information and a brief (150-word) description of your proposed contribution to the panel. We also welcome full panel proposals of 500 words, provided that all proposed panelists are GSOLE members. 

IWAC submissions will be due in the fall; therefore, we request all GSOLE proposals by August 20th. Chosen participants will be notified before proposal submission to confirm. 

Please contact affiliates@gsole.org with any questions. We look forward to reading your proposals! 

GSOLE invites you to volunteer for the Conference Planning Committee. Each year, GSOLE offers a virtual conference in February, and this important virtual gathering is only possible because of generous volunteers. Any active GSOLE member can join the committee. To join, we ask that you complete this brief Conference Committee Member survey, which will help us identify the best way to contact you and learn about your workflow preferences and needs. We realize that our community thrives when we have different perspectives and points of view serving on this committee and hope if you have the interest and bandwidth, you’ll consider joining us!

Conference Committee members will have a voice in shaping and promoting the call for proposals, reviewing presentation proposals, designing the conference experience and preparation materials, and facilitating conference sessions during the conference event. Want to just join us for part of this preparation work? That’s great! We’ll take whatever help you are willing to give whenever you are willing to give it. On the survey you can indicate what project you’d like to be involved in and when you can volunteer.

Thank you for your support, labor, and expertise. Whether or not you choose to join the committee, we hope you will join us at the conference in February. 

Sincerely, 

Conference Planning Committee Co-Chair, Kevin DePew

GSOLE Joins Pedagogue Audio Texts Project

Dr. Shane Wood’s Audio Texts project is committed to making writing studies research accessible to audiences inside and outside higher education by inviting authors to read and record audio versions of their publications. If you have published in OLOR Effective Practices journal (editor Jason Snart), Research in Online Literacy Education journal (editors Ashlyn Walden and Michelle Stucky), and OLOR Reviews (editor Beatrice Newman) and are willing to create an audio-version of your work, please let Dr. Wood know. Learn more about the project and the process for recording audio versions of your work at this Audio Texts Project website.

Submit proposals here by Monday, July 15, 2024

The Global Society of Online Literacy Educators, an organization dedicated to supporting teacher-scholars and tutors who teach hybrid, online, and/or in person, invites everyone (both GSOLE Members and non-members) to submit proposals for our upcoming Webinar Series: AI in Online Literacy Instruction. 

GSOLE's webinars are designed to spark conversation, provide professional development, share ideas, and build community. Webinar recordings are made available to GSOLE members in an online archive, and webinar leaders are encouraged to transform their webinar topics into ROLE or OLOR Effective Practices publications. Webinars are:

• Led by a single presenter or a small group

• 60–90 minutes long

• Combinations of theory and practice with actionable plans for instructors, tutors, and others

• Interactive presentations, engaging attendees

In this series, we’re asking presenters to consider any of the following topics surrounding AI use in writing classrooms and in the writing center, including but not limited to:

• AI and writing feedback/revision

• AI and issues of language, race, or gender

• The future of AI in online writing instruction (OWI)

• Productive uses of AI in writing classes and writing centers

• Visual rhetoric & AI

• Development of AI policies

• Pedagogical approaches to AI

• Intersections of AI and genre

• AI ethics

• Supporting AI literacy

• The future of AI in online education

• And more! 

If you are interested in presenting a webinar on one of these topics:

By Monday, July 15, 2024, please submit the following information to this form: https://forms.gle/GkTCsGGc9MYMp7JGA

1. All presenter names and emails

2. A tentative Webinar Title

3. Your desired Webinar Months

4. A 500-word proposal that includes details on what the webinar will cover, how this proposal relates to the theme, a description of the interactive components of the webinar, and 4-5 intended outcomes for participants.

GSOLE want to congratulate the winners of our 2024 election and thank everyone who took the time to run for an elected position and support the process through voting:

Incoming Vice President, Kevin E. DePew, Old Dominion University

Incoming Secretary, Nikki Chasteen, Florida Atlantic University

Incoming Executive Board At-Large Member, Tina Calandrino, University of Central Florida

Incoming Executive Board At-Large Member, Alex Evans, University of Cincinnati

Incoming Executive Board At-Large Member, Patrice Johnson, Eastfield College

GSOLE held two sponsored panels at the Rhetoric Society of America conference in Denver May 23-26. The first featured panelists Tess Evans, Nikki Chasteen, and Meghan Velez, while the second consisted of presentations from Molly Ubbesen, Miranda Egger, Sydney Sullivan, and Jazzie Terrell. As an RSA affiliate organization, GSOLE was proud to bring discussions of online rhetorical pedagogy and inclusive, accessible course design to this year's conference. 

Interested in representing GSOLE at a future RSA conference or exploring an affiliate partnership between GSOLE and other professional organizations? Email affiliates@gsole.org to learn more or get involved!

Calling All GSOLE Members: Join Our Inaugural Cyber Salon!

Are you seeking fresh perspectives, innovative ideas, or collaborators for your next online literacy project? Look no further than GSOLE's Cyber Salon - a virtual gathering space where minds meet and synergies spark!

This event offers a unique opportunity to:

• Engage in thought-provoking discussions with fellow GSOLE members across disciplines
• Explore potential research or teaching partnerships
• Exchange insights on cutting-edge online literacy practices
• Expand your professional network in a relaxed, salon-style setting

Don't miss this chance to connect, collaborate, and catalyze your next endeavor. Mark your calendars and get ready to ignite your passion for online literacy education at the Cyber Salon. 

Don't have any project ideas? No worries. Plan to attend and help others think through their ideas.

Register Here!

Download the program here.

Register now!

We invite the CGC membership to explore “Change, Adaptation, and Engagement in Graduate Communication” at our annual Summer Institute (SI). In keeping with our recent practice of alternating in-person and virtual SIs to serve the access needs and mode preferences of all CGC members, we are excited to meet virtually in 2024, generously hosted by Purdue University.

This theme of “Change, Adaptation, and Engagement” speaks to what is new and what persists in our work with graduate students as emerging professional communicators in their respective fields and career paths. We will explore the various institutional, programmatic, disciplinary, and technological changes we have been navigating in graduate communication and will share our diverse experiences of adapting to emergent trends and technologies and using them within disciplinary conventions and pedagogies. We will also consider the nature and practice of engagement across the various pedagogical, professional, social, political, and technological domains that inform graduate communication.