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Young Writers Conference | Young Writers Academy
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The Young Writers Conference

Our May 24th conference offers young writers grades 4-9 a variety of workshops from poetry to plays, anime to adventure.  This year, we enter the digital age, offering an online anthology that can also be purchased as a professional hard- or soft-cover book.  Follow this link to learn more.

Invitational Summer Institute 2008

This summer, we are delighted to announce, we will be offering two ISIs: one in Humboldt County and one in Mendocino County.

Humboldt County ISI Dates:

Information Session: February 7, 4:30-6:30, Humboldt Area Foundation

Application Deadline: April 11

Spring Conference: April 26, 8:00-3:30, HSU Campus

Orientation: May 30-31, 8:00-4:00

Intensive: June 23-25, 8:00-4:00

Summer Institute: July 7-18, 9:00-3:00

For information about ISI 2008 in Humboldt County, please follow this link.

Mendocino County ISI Dates:

Priority Application Deadline: April 4 (materials received after this date will be considered on a space-available basis)

Orientation: May 3, 9:00-3:30

One-Week Kick-off: June 16-20, 8:30-4:00

Two-Week Institute: July 28 through August 8, 8:30-4:00

For information about ISI 2008 in Mendocino County, please follow this link.

Advanced Technology Institute 2008

Advancing Technology is professional-development series for techcurious TCs who have completed an Invitational Institute and who are eager to revel in the technological with other technophiles.  To learn more, please follow this link.

The Young Writers Academy

Young writers entering grades 4-9 in the fall who are interested in writing poetry, plays, songs, and graphic novels are invited to register for our 2008 Young Writers Academy.  To learn more about this one- to four-week event, please follow this link.

Lost Coast Writers Retreat: Writing on the River

Join us for a week in the beautiful Mattole Valley dedicated to writers who teach and teachers who write.  Participants will be housed rustically and fed royally and treated to presentations and workshops by published authors.  All are welcome: the seasoned and the less experienced, writers with burning ambition and writers with more humble aspirations.  To learn more, please follow this link.  Online registration is now available through PayPal.

In Tech News

• The Redwood Writing Project eAnthology
  Writing Teachers Writing, RWP's eAnthology, is currently under reconstruction.  Stay tuned for the grand re-opening.

• Look Who's Blogging Now!
  Want to join the RWP Blogs on Parade?  How about the Wiksters and Websters Hall of Fame?  Please email Tracy with your URL.  Follow these links to see what RWP TCs are crafting on the Web: blogs | wikis | web pages.

• GeekGoodies: The RWP Wiki
  Technology aficionados and amateurs alike are welcome to visit our wiki: a collection of technology tools by teachers for teachers.  Have you recently researched digital cameras before making a purchase?  Share your findings with others.  Curious about social bookmarking?  Gather some wiki wisdom.  As a website where anyone can add, change, or delete content, our wiki is the epitome of socially constructed knowledge.

  Updated: 05.11.08