#wcworld: IWCA/NCPTW, 10/30-11/01/2014

This was my first IWCA/NCPTW conference, and the first conference in a while where I wasn't expected to do stuff. As such, I tried to attend as many panels as possible. As the conference site had remarkably reliable wifi, I used my netbook to take notes, which meant I could tweet much more quickly than usual.

The official hashtag for the conference was #wcworld. Unfortunately, the panel sessions weren't numbered (i.e. something like "A12" or E04," like at other conferences). I feel pretty strongly about using hashtags for attribution as well as attention, so I decided to use the structure of "Session Timeslot + Session Location." It made for unwieldly tags sometimes, but seemed like the best option. I also tried to not misattribute panels, so if I wasn't sure of the panelist's name, I opted to say "the first speaker" or something similar.

The theme of the conference was "The Wonderful World of Writing Centers," since it was held at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort. This means, of course, that most of the panels had groan-worthy puns in their titles.

In any case, here are the Storyfied sessions:

• #ABaja: Writing Center Work in Online Spaces
  
  
• #BDurango2: Is It All In Your Head?: Developing Writing Centers for Student Mindsets
  
  
• #CCoronadoR: Borrowing from Other Disciplines: Guiding Tutors in Personal Awareness and Effective Relationships
  
  
• #ECoronadoS: (Re)Imagineering the Crossroads of Legba, Ganesh, and Hecate: Creative De/Construction of Pathways to Writing Centers
  
  
• #FCoronadoQ: Macro and Micro Management: Finding the "I" in the A-hole
  
  
• #GCancun: Intimate Bedfellows: How Successful Writing Needs Successful Reading
  
  
• #HBaja: Oral Communication in the Writing Center: Dialogue, Discourse, and Scaffolding in Conversation
  
  
• #ICoronadoR: Writing Centers' First Magicians: Peer Receptionists Explore Their Imagineering
  
  
• #JCancun: A Resource for "Does this sound right?": Using Corpus Linguistics & Modeling Discovering in ELL Sessions
  
  
• #keynote by Elizabeth Boquet: It's All Coming Together, Right Before My Eyes: On Poetry, Peace, & Creative Placemaking in Writing Centers
  
  
• #LCancun: STEM Writing: Getting to Know Its Scenes, Situations, and Genres
  
  
• #NCoronadoR: Shaking It Up: Trying Something New in Tutor Training
  
  
• #SIGTechnology: Technology Special Interest Group
  
  
• #PCoronadoL: "Singing Wonderfully": Remembering the Scholarship of Linda Bergmann
  Note: Linda Bergmann was one of my professors. She passed away last January.
  
  
• #QBaja: New Approaches for New Contexts in Tutor Prep
  
  
• #LeadershipSymposium: IWCA Leadership Symposium
  
  
• #RBaja: Peer Tutoring Inside the Box: Creatively Addressing Multiple Learning Styles with the Tutoring Toolbox
  
  
• #SDurango1: Subculture: A New Look at the Writing Center

That's all I've got, at least until NCTE convention in a couple of weeks!