Posts by aholmes3 | Today at Elon | 51±¬ÁÏÍø /u/news Fri, 01 May 2026 20:00:36 -0400 en-US hourly 1 Holmes presents at Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching /u/news/2008/02/10/holmes-presents-at-lilly-conference-on-college-and-university-teaching/ Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:52:00 +0000 /u/news/2008/02/10/holmes-presents-at-lilly-conference-on-college-and-university-teaching/
Ashley Holmes
Ashley Holmes, lecturer in the English department, presented at the 2008 Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching.  Holmes’ presentation, titled “Redesigning Service-Learning: Considering Student and Community Partner Voices in Course Design” described a current research project she is conducting with funding from an Elon Community Partnership Initiative (CPI) Grant.
 
The project partners Holmes, three Elon students and a community partner in re-designing a Service-Learning section of English 110 (College Writing).  The course re-design team met four times in fall 2007 to consider how to improve the course; Holmes is teaching the re-designed course in spring 2008.
]]> Holmes presents at the Carnegie Academy’s Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Institute /u/news/2007/06/11/holmes-presents-at-the-carnegie-academys-scholarship-of-teaching-and-learning-institute/ Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:59:00 +0000 /u/news/2007/06/11/holmes-presents-at-the-carnegie-academys-scholarship-of-teaching-and-learning-institute/ Ashley J. Holmes, lecturer in English, presented a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) project at the Carnegie Academy’s SoTL Institute in Chicago, June 7-9. Holmes’ project explores the potential connections between Service-Learning and civic engagement, comparing several sections of College Writing courses.

]]> Holmes presents at national composition conference /u/news/2007/04/04/holmes-presents-at-national-composition-conference/ Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:00:00 +0000 /u/news/2007/04/04/holmes-presents-at-national-composition-conference/ Ashley J. Holmes, lecturer in the department of English, presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in New York on March 23. Holmes presented the paper “Exploring Voices and Identities: Multigenre Research in First Year Writing.” She joined three other instructors from NC State University to present on the panel: “Negotiating Student Voice in First Year Composition: Listening, Seeing, Speaking, and Writing.”

In her paper, Holmes argues for the value of non-traditional research assignments, such as the multigenre research paper, in first year composition courses. Holmes also describes the assignment and student learning in a gallery entry for Elon’s Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning.

]]> Holmes presents at international teaching and learning conference /u/news/2006/11/14/holmes-presents-at-international-teaching-and-learning-conference/ Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:37:00 +0000 /u/news/2006/11/14/holmes-presents-at-international-teaching-and-learning-conference/ Ashley Holmes, lecturer in the department of English, presented at the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) Conference in Washington, D.C., on Friday, Nov. 10. Her presentation was titled “Transformative Pedagogy: Weblogs as Learner-Centered Writing Spaces.”

]]> Holmes presents at composition conference /u/news/2006/03/29/holmes-presents-at-composition-conference/ Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:14:00 +0000 /u/news/2006/03/29/holmes-presents-at-composition-conference/ Ashley Holmes, lecturer in English, presented on the topic of “Pedagogy in the Center Space: Weblogs as Student-led Communities” at the Conference on College Composition and Communication held in Chicago, March 22-25. The conference program and information can be found at the link below. Several other Elon faculty, including Tim Peeples, Barbara Gordon, Jessie Kapper, Lance Massey, Janet Myers, and Cassie Kircher presented at and/or attended the conference.

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