What have our MBWP Fellows been doing? Please add your awards and accolades as comments so I can submit them to the National Writing Project! I won't know if you don't tell me.
Janis Price and Wynter Galloway, 2007 fellows, along with director and technology liaison Paige Baggett presented Mobile Bay Writing Project (MBWP) Teacher Consultants Use Web 2.0 Technology to Communicate and Collaborate in the K-12 Classroom at the University of South Alabama Technology Fair on October 26, 2007 sponsored by Biomedical Library, Faculty Senate Technology Unitization Committee, and University Academic Computing Committee, with a Grant supported by National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) Southeastern/Atlantic Region (SE/A).
Sondra Thomas, 2001 fellow, was named Theodore High School's Teacher of the Year in 2006, and then awarded the High School Teacher of the Year for Mobile County. Much of the information in her portfolio was based on her teaching of writing.
Regina Dossett, 2007 fellow, won the University of South Alabama Stokes Scholarship for Poetry as well as for Fiction this year through the University of South Alabama English Department. She also published a story entitled "Red Wrong" in the Oracle, University of South Alabama’s literary magazine. Her unpublished novel, Mayonnaise Sandwiches, was chosen as a semifinalist in the William Wisdom Faulkner Novel Writing Competition for 2007. And she will be writing and reading a poem at the Mobile, AL Saenger Theater for the Martin Luther King celebration in January.
Ron Polizzi, 2007 fellow, had two short stories published recently. One in Bewildering Stories, and another in Crimson Highway.
Paige V. Baggett, Director of the MBWP received the University of South Alabama Lisa Mitchell Bukstein Foundation Scholarship for Developing Faculty in Education. Paige received this for her pursuit of promoting literacy, creativity, and artistic expression through digital storytelling. This project was initiated through her work as technology liaison which was facilitated by the award of the NWP 2006 technology mini grant.
Carol Case, 2000 fellow, recently had a poem published in Whatever Remembers Us. This is Dr. Sue Walker's Poet Laureate project. She has collected poems by and about Alabama. Carol's poem is entitled, "Wildlife Sanctury."
