LRAconfcover2012PRESS.pdf 1 10/1/12 2:06 PM Sched TABLE OF CONTENTS General Information ..................................... 1 abouT Literacy ResearCh Association (LrA) About LRA The Literacy Research Association, a non-profit professional Book Display, Silent Auction, & Exhibits organization, is composed of individuals who share an inter- Cyber Café est in advancing literacy research and practice. LRA sponsors a conference each year. The program consists of roundtable Welcome ......................................................... 2 discussions, sessions with alternative formats, symposia, paper sessions, and plenary addresses. Major Addresses............................................. 5 In addition to sponsoring the annual conference, LRA publishes a quarterly journal, Journal of Literacy Research, and the Yearbook, which contains peer-reviewed papers Study Groups ................................................. 6 selected from the previous year’s conference, as well as a newsletter. It also sponsors a Website and listserv. To support Schedule at a Glance ..................................... 8 these activities, LRA maintains a full-time administrative staff in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. Wednesday Schedule .................................... 11 For more information, contact the LRA Headquarters Office at 7044 South 13th Street, Oak Creek, Wisconsin Thursday Schedule ...................................... 33 53154, Phone: 414-908-4924, ext. 450, Fax: 414-768-8001, www.LiteracyResearchAssociation.org. Friday Schedule ........................................... 55 Book diSplay, Silent auction, & exhibitS WedneSday–Friday Saturday Schedule ....................................... 81 The Silent Auction provides a unique and fun way to add to your professional library while bringing much-needed rev- enue to LRA. Professional books authored by LRA members LRA Leadership and Honorees ................... 89 will be displayed throughout the conference. Each book will have a bidding sheet inside of it. If you wish to bid, add your 2012 Area Chairs ......................................... 92 name to the end of the list of bids. The highest bid wins the book. Bidding closes at 3:30 pm on Friday. Names of the highest bidders will be circled on the bidding sheet. You may 2012 Proposal Reviewers ............................. 93 purchase books on Friday from 4:00 pm–7:00 pm and Satur- day from 8:00 am–11:00 am. Payment for books can be made Hotel Maps ................................................... 95 via cash, credit card, or check (payable to LRA). Please visit our exhibitors: Teachers College Press, Guil- Participants Index ....................................... 97 ford Publications, Routledge, and Holcomb Hathaway Publications. cyber caFé In the Cyber Café, you will have access to computers and a printer, or bring your own laptop and take advantage of the free wireless access. Investigating 21st Century Literacies: Exploring Uses of New Literacies 62nd Annual Conference of the Literacy Research Association l November 28 - December 1, 2012 l San Diego, CA 1 WELCOME Dear Colleagues, Friends, and Members of the Literacy Research Association, Welcome to the 62nd Annual LRA Confer- ing more information about yourself. On then returning from those stops starting at ence at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and the schedule list, you can hover over or click 8:30PM and going until 10:30 PM. (For Marina. I’ve enjoyed working on planning on a session or event to find out more about Gaslamp Quarter restaurants: http://www. this conference with my Co-Chair, Arlette that session or event. You can also view the gaslamp.org/dining; Little Italy restaurants Willis, along with Betsy Purcell, TEI, as schedule by day (select the calendar on the http://tinyurl.com/92eczbf; Old Town well as Christopher Roper, formerly of TEI. top right), room (select San Diego, CA), or restaurants: http://tinyurl.com/9pjo5p6; We received an LRA conference record event type (the list of options on the right). Hillcrest restaurants: http://tinyurl. of 871 proposals for this conference and You can also search the schedule by session com/9lg3w2u). accepted 623 proposals for an acceptance topic or presenter name (select Search). To rate of 71.5%. This resulted in 117 Paper create your personal schedule, just select Attend the plenary speaker presentations. the star to save the session or event to your Sessions with 345 individual papers, 42 We have a cast of outstanding plenary schedule. You can also share information via Alternative Format Sessions; 85 Symposia, speakers. Our Wednesday afternoon speaker iCal, a printer, Twitter, or Facebook. and 14 Roundtable Sessions with 138 Indi- is Robert Jiménez, Vanderbilt University, vidual Roundtables. This proposal submis- LRA’s SCHED also includes a Mobile Web LRA President, who will deliver the Annual sion reflects well on the vibrancy of LRA App for iPhone, Android and Blackberry as Presidential Address. Our Thursday morn- as a professional research organization. I well as a feed on iCal for Google Calendar, ing speaker is Linda B. Gambrell, Distin- want to thank all of the Area Chairs for Outlook, and Apple iCal. For more infor- guished Professor of Education, Clemson their excellent work in organizing reviews of mation on how to use these tools, please University, who will give the Oscar S. Causey these proposals. visit: http://lra2012.sched.org/mobile-site#. Address. Our Thursday afternoon speaker is The conference theme is “Investigating 21st UEjfcSLpiSo David Barton, Professor of Language and Century Literacies: Exploring Uses of New For more information on the benefits of Literacy, Lancaster University, England; he Literacies,” a focus on how literacy research- LRA’s 2012 SCHED, see the URL below will be discussing his work on social aspects ers are examining uses of both digital and to view a short 3-minute instructional video. of digital literacies in communities of prac- print literacies in different social and cul- http://youtu.be/rDqfp-MifBs tice. Our Friday afternoon speaker is Mimi tural contexts. I selected this theme given Ito, Professor in Residence and John D. and the need for research on learning digital Ride a free bus to downtown San Diego Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Chair and print literacies. As literacy researchers, restaurants. in Digital Media and Learning, University we can provide new ways of thinking about of California, Irvine. She will be discussing There are only a few restaurants in walking how students employ both digital and print her media ethnography research on adoles- distance from the hotel; most restaurants tools to construct knowledge and adopt cents’ uses of digital literacies. And our Sat- are located in downtown San Diego. To critical stances on the world. Many of the urday Integrative Research Review speaker get to these restaurants, we’ve provided free conference presentations and plenary speak- is Kevin Leander, Associate Professor of transporation on school buses provided by ers will be addressing this conference theme. Language and Literacy, Vanderbilt Univer- a local school; thanks to LRA Board mem- sity, who will be reviewing research on the Conference To-Do List ber, Doug Fisher, San Diego State Univer- design of spaces for literacy learning. sity; and Jeff Woods, Health Science High The following are some of the many things School, San Diego, for organizing this bus you can do to the enhance your participa- Attend an Area Chairs’ Invited Speaker transportation. On Wednesday-Friday, tion at this conference: Session. buses will be leaving every half-hour start- ing at 6:30 PM and going until 8:30 PM We also have a series of five Area Chair Use the SCHED app to plan your confer- from the hotel entrance to 5th and Market Invited Speaker sessions featuring well- ence schedule. in the downtown Gaslamp Quarter and known scholars. The Area 2 (In-service You can use the SCHED app http:// then returning from 5th and Market start- Teacher Education/Professional Develop- lra2012.sched.org to plan your conference ing at 9:00 PM and going until 11:00 PM. ment in Literacy) speaker will be Diane schedule on your mobile devices/computers. They will also be leaving on the hour start- DeFord, University of South Carolina. You can access the app using the QR code ing at 6:30 PM and going until 8:30 PM The Area 4 (Literacy Assessment, Evalu- image on the program front cover. Once you to Little Italy (India and Grape), Old Town ation, and Public Policy) speaker is Pam log in using Facebook or Twitter and create (Old Town Theatre on Twigg St.), and Hill- Grossman, Stanford University. The Area an account, please create a profile provid- crest (Forth and Robinson parking lot) and 6 (Adolescent, College, and Adult Literacy Processes) speakers are Jonathan Osborne Investigating 21st Century Literacies: Exploring Uses of New Literacies 2 62nd Annual Conference of the Literacy Research Association l November 28 - December 1, 2012 l San Diego, CA and Sam Wineburg, Stanford Univer- you’re interested in becoming active in these Use the Cyber Café. sity; and Jennifer J. Wimmer and Roni Jo ICGs, attend one of their events listed in While you will have free Internet access Draper, Brigham Young University. The the program. in your rooms as well as in the hotel lobby Area 8 (Literacy Learning and Practice in and some meeting rooms, you will also have Multilingual and Multicultural Settings) Visit a nationally recognized school Internet access in the Cyber Café. You can speakers are Olga A. Vásquez and