SAWP Conference Presenters-Session 1-9:45-10:45

Presenter	Room	Level	Title	Presentation Summary
Serena Bahe	3.406	Late elementary through secondary	Writers As Reflectors and Reflecting About Writing	This research-supported presentation will demonstrate how reflecting during and after the writing process creates clearer understanding of ourselves as writers and a better finished piece. Presentation
Therese Fleming	3.512	All	The Cuentos Project	Classroom demonstration of The Cuentos Project* at work. Stories don't die, but their vessels do. So what? Well, pardner, then you're left with a tall drink of imagination quenchin' nothin', a plate full of history dust,  "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Get on board with this essential endeavor to seek out and record the missing pages of world history. Put the dousing rod in your students’ hands and get ready to make history.  You know you want to, yes you do. The train's leaving town, and the only thing missin is YOU. Welcome aboard, pardner.        *boots and lariats optional, enthusiam and commitment required
Kelley Meyer	3.528	Secondary	To Grammar or Not to Grammar	This workshop is designed to help integrate grammar and conventions lessons into the context of the writing process. Presentation
Nora Gonzalez	3.402	Elementary	Shhhhhh.....Not in this Class!	In this session participants will unearth the importance of interaction and conversation for English language learners in a regular elementary classroom. These activities promote interaction through a variety of ways to include reading, writing, listening and speaking. Presentation
Lennie Irvin and Frances Crawford	3.520	All	Celebrating Writing for Learning in All Subjects: How to Integrate More Writing into Your Curriculum	No matter your subject or grade level, writing is an important tool to help your students learn. This presentation will discuss the important role writing plays in learning, and it will introduce teachers to concrete activities they can use in the classroom to get their students writing more (without increasing their grading load considerably). Participants will engage in a teaching demonstration of one such technique that has been used successfully in the classroom. Presentation | Handout | Write to Learn Activities
Honor Moorman	1.522	High School	Navigating the Digital Landscape: 21^st Century Research Skills	The new Research Strand of the ELAR TEKS requires that students be able to gather information from electronic sources, use advanced search strategies, and distinguish between reliable and unreliable sources. But in the Age of the Internet, it is easy to find ourselves adrift in the sea of information, drowning in the digital ocean that engulfs us. In this session, we will get our feet on solid ground again by exploring effective search tools and strategies, examining how social bookmarking can be used to tag, save, highlight, annotate, share, and organize online resources, and investigating the critical characteristics to consider when evaluating websites.

SAWP Conference Presenters-session 2-11:00-12:00

Presenter	Room	Level	Title	Presentation Summary
Pam Piedfort	3.402	Elementary	Revision in Living Color	In this session participants will learn to use the power of students' own self-selected writings and highlighters to teach revision and editing. Presentation
Mike Moran, Kelli Wilder, Janet Flores, Lauri Humberson	3.520	High School	Classroom Experiences with San Antonio's Big Read	We will share our experiences incorporating Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried as part of The Big Read during the Fall 2009 semester. Presenters will describe sample assignments and discuss working with administrators and the surrounding community. Attendees will receive free teacher’s guides, reader’s guides, and bookmarks. Presentation Files
Lennie Irvin and Frances Crawford	3.528	All	Celebrating Writing for Learning in All Subjects: How to Integrate More Writing into Your Curriculum	No matter your subject or grade level, writing is an important tool to help your students learn. This presentation will discuss the important role writing plays in learning, and it will introduce teachers to concrete activities they can use in the classroom to get their students writing more (without increasing their grading load considerably). Participants will engage in a teaching demonstration of one such technique that has been used successfully in the classroom. Presentation | Handout | Write to Learn Activities
Kalpana Iyengar	3.536	All	Kahani Project	Kahani Project is a literacy endeavour modeled after the Cuentos project where Indian and International students wrote family oriented stories. The stories project the Indian ethos and help students explore their ethnicity, culture, and country. It is a wonderful opportunity that enables students to compose, share, and talk about the stories in an open mike session at the Institute of Texan Cultures of UTSA.
Dan Kaderli	Audit	High School and Adult	PoePourri	Kaderli presents a perspective on Edgar Allen Poe's life and work through a masterful impersonation of him. It's a look at Poe's life through his own eyes involving recitation of some his major works, such as "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee," and some indirect references to other poets, such as Keats and Shelley.  The performance also looks at how masterpieces get written, in Poe's view.
Jennifer Hall	3.512	Secondary and Adult	Showing vs. Telling : Writing Emotions with Physicality	Student writing can be lifeless and liable to info-dumps. Yet these same students run, jump, sing, dance, and otherwise move around every day. This lesson is designed to bring that physicality and interest to student writing. Presentation | Handout
Jeanette Pierce	3.406	All	Telling Their Stories: The San Antonio Holocaust Survivor Project	This presentation will share the history, creative process, and curriculum product resulting from a three-year effort to record the stories of San Antonio's Holocaust Survivors. The project is nearing completion and the efforts of the small team of teachers to retell our survivors' stories based on their videotaped interviews will be featured. The original videotapes were created by Steven Spielberg's Shoah Project which began after the release of Schindler's List.  The final curriculum unit and writing activities will be published and included in the learning trunks shared by the San Antonio Holocaust Memorial Museum with area schools.  Participants will have the opportunity to "test drive" some of the activities and to discuss how we can connect these stories to the lives of our students.   Presentation Materials (zip)