Comments for TYCA-West http://tycawest.wordpress.com Arizona - Hawaii - Nevada - Southern Idaho - Utah - Wyoming Sat, 10 Apr 2010 02:28:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Hotel Shuttle from the airport by Cheapest Hotels http://tycawest.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/hotel-shuttle-from-the-airport/#comment-91 Cheapest Hotels Sat, 10 Apr 2010 02:28:39 +0000 http://tycawest.org/?p=134#comment-91 You know I was really bored tonight so I thought I could read some blogs. Your's impressed me, I just added to my rss reader! Thanks for making my night better! You know I was really bored tonight so I thought I could read some blogs. Your’s impressed me, I just added to my rss reader! Thanks for making my night better!

]]> Comment on TYCA 2009: Salt Lake City by Levia Hayes http://tycawest.wordpress.com/2009/04/25/tyca-2009-salt-lake-city/#comment-52 Levia Hayes Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:05:48 +0000 http://tycawest.org/?p=81#comment-52 Proposal Submission Levia Hayes College of Southern Nevada levia.hayes@csn.edu 702-271-0782 Single Paper/Classroom Practice 30 – 40 minutes. Comic Books and Visual Literature: Superpower or Kryptonite An examination of ways in which comic books and graphic novels might be explored in terms of their unique and complicated interplay of word and image. A semiotic exploration of the exceptional literary contribution of comic books and graphic novels that can take place in our college classrooms as we embrace this not-so-new literary form. Visual literacy has been a valued rhetorical method since the early cave paintings, and has become a modern day sleeping giant in the bookstore and library in the form of graphic novels and comic books. Will this unusual genre take its place in the literary canon of the 21st century? Proposal Submission

Levia Hayes
College of Southern Nevada
levia.hayes@csn.edu
702-271-0782
Single Paper/Classroom Practice 30 – 40 minutes.

Comic Books and Visual Literature: Superpower or Kryptonite
An examination of ways in which comic books and graphic novels might be explored in terms of their unique and complicated interplay of word and image. A semiotic exploration of the exceptional literary contribution of comic books and graphic novels that can take place in our college classrooms as we embrace this not-so-new literary form. Visual literacy has been a valued rhetorical method since the early cave paintings, and has become a modern day sleeping giant in the bookstore and library in the form of graphic novels and comic books. Will this unusual genre take its place in the literary canon of the 21st century?

]]> Comment on Reflections on TYCA-West 2008 by Ron Christiansen http://tycawest.wordpress.com/2008/11/10/75/#comment-15 Ron Christiansen Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:23:42 +0000 http://tycawest.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-15 Thanks for doing this Shelley--it will help us plan the conference for SLC next year. I just realized I forgot to write a post for our blog as I said I would. I actually have a summary of our English 1010 retention study that I could post. Also, I'd like to post something on the upcoming 2009 conference. I just received confirmation that Deborah Holdstein (current CCCC editor) will be our guest speaker. Exciting! Ron Thanks for doing this Shelley–it will help us plan the conference for SLC next year. I just realized I forgot to write a post for our blog as I said I would.

I actually have a summary of our English 1010 retention study that I could post. Also, I’d like to post something on the upcoming 2009 conference. I just received confirmation that Deborah Holdstein (current CCCC editor) will be our guest speaker. Exciting!

Ron

]]> Comment on Reflections on TYCA-West 2008 by Carolyn Calhoon-Dillahunt http://tycawest.wordpress.com/2008/11/10/75/#comment-14 Carolyn Calhoon-Dillahunt Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:24:38 +0000 http://tycawest.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-14 Hello, TYCA-West, I am subscribing to the “better late than never” philosophy as I type this, but now that our term at YVCC is coming to a close, I’ve had a moment to go through some of the many “to do” lists that I’ve set aside and paper piles needing my attention, and I am trying to catch up. I attended your conference this fall on the lovely Yavapai campus as your visiting national TYCA representative, and I have been meaning to tell you all how much I enjoyed my time there and how much I appreciated meeting all of you during my visit. Unfortunately, upon returning home from Clarkdale, I had sort of a run of funerals (of all things!) to attend. It’s been a tough quarter, losing both a family friend and a family member unexpectedly as well as a few colleagues and acquaintances, all in the span of about one month, and I just lost focus on some of these smaller “to do’s.” But these small things are important to me, too, and now that I have a moment to take a breath (before all my final portfolios come in), I want to make sure you all knew how impressed I was with your conference intimate and stimulating conference. Kudos to Carol, Shelley, and the other conference organziers for a job well done! I had a great time and enjoyed your very good company. I also enjoyed spending a little time with Clint, the new TYCA Secretary, at NCTE. He's going to do a fabulous job! Good luck with next year's conference, Salt Lake folks, and I hope I run into some of you at CCCC! Enjoy your holidays and have a restful winter break! Best wishes, Carolyn Calhoon-Dillahunt Outgoing National TYCA Secretary Hello, TYCA-West,
I am subscribing to the “better late than never” philosophy as I type this, but now that our term at YVCC is coming to a close, I’ve had a moment to go through some of the many “to do” lists that I’ve set aside and paper piles needing my attention, and I am trying to catch up. I attended your conference this fall on the lovely Yavapai campus as your visiting national TYCA representative, and I have been meaning to tell you all how much I enjoyed my time there and how much I appreciated meeting all of you during my visit. Unfortunately, upon returning home from Clarkdale, I had sort of a run of funerals (of all things!) to attend. It’s been a tough quarter, losing both a family friend and a family member unexpectedly as well as a few colleagues and acquaintances, all in the span of about one month, and I just lost focus on some of these smaller “to do’s.” But these small things are important to me, too, and now that I have a moment to take a breath (before all my final portfolios come in), I want to make sure you all knew how impressed I was with your conference intimate and stimulating conference. Kudos to Carol, Shelley, and the other conference organziers for a job well done! I had a great time and enjoyed your very good company. I also enjoyed spending a little time with Clint, the new TYCA Secretary, at NCTE. He’s going to do a fabulous job! Good luck with next year’s conference, Salt Lake folks, and I hope I run into some of you at CCCC!

Enjoy your holidays and have a restful winter break!

Best wishes,
Carolyn Calhoon-Dillahunt
Outgoing National TYCA Secretary

]]> Comment on Reflections on TYCA-West 2008 by shelleyrodrigo.com : Blog Archive : A couple blog-o-days http://tycawest.wordpress.com/2008/11/10/75/#comment-13 shelleyrodrigo.com : Blog Archive : A couple blog-o-days Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:52:58 +0000 http://tycawest.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-13 [...] As the program chairperson for the 2008 TYCA-West conference, I needed to do a little reflecting on the conference evaluations. [...] [...] As the program chairperson for the 2008 TYCA-West conference, I needed to do a little reflecting on the conference evaluations. [...]

]]> Comment on Check out the new site! by gardnecl http://tycawest.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/check-out-the-new-site/#comment-2 gardnecl Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:26:48 +0000 http://tycawest.wordpress.com/?p=11#comment-2 A much more effective way to do this. Good job, Jason. A much more effective way to do this. Good job, Jason.

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