ACES INFORM is a free, full day-pre-conference workshop open to all ACES registrants. The purpose of ACES INFORM is to provide training and continuing education on research methods. This content may be related to qualitative or quantitative methodology, mixed methodology, instrumentation, analysis, manuscript writing, publication, or grants (finding and writing). Content can include “how to” steps, innovative ideas, current issues in research, training, and findings from research related to research.
Grantology 101: The Secrets that Professional Grant Writers Don’t Want You to Know!
Thursday, October 27, 2011
8 to 11 am
Fee: $50.00
During this dynamic, interactive, and engaging session on grant writing, the presenter will discuss all the secrets to grant writing that professionals do not want you to know! This will include a dialogue around various types of grants and how to identify sources of funding, understand commonly used lingo, qualities of effective writing, where to begin, integrating data to support your application, including appropriate stakeholders, identifying and meeting all technical requirements, understanding the importance of the review criteria, and what happens after you get funded! But most importantly, the presenter will dissect a traditional grant application and demonstrate how to construct a winning proposal from the inside out building upon the following:
While this session will provide an overview of grant writing, participants should be ready to roll up their sleeves and actively participate in working group sessions and other interactive formats as the presenter guides attendees through writing a winning, reviewer friendly grant application that will even fool the most professional of grant writers!
Presenter Biography:
James Vince Witty, B.S., M.B.E., Ed.D. (ABD)
James Witty has over twelve years experience working with at-risk students as a teacher, district administrator, and state coordinator. He has over ten years experience as a grant writer, grant administrator, and grant reviewer at the local, state, and federal levels. Mr. Witty has successfully landed over 17 million dollars in state and federal grant funding on his own and worked on several collaborative projects such as Race to the Top.
Using New Media In Counselor Training
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
1 to 5 pm
Fee: $75.00
Debra London, M.Ed., Diana Vanwinkle, M.Ed., Julie Robinson, Ph.D., Jill Packman, Ph.D., & Marty Jencius, Ph.D.
With the increase in online and hybrid counselor education training programs, faculty are finding an increasing need for creative, real-time, digital training modalities to engage students in the learning process. This pre-conference program will explore three currently utilized new media in counselor education; virtual worlds of Second Life, creating personal narratives with digital storytelling, and using newsfeeds with microblogging on Twitter. The morning session will introduce participants to the three new media and how they can be used to augment coursework or professional trainings. The afternoon session will focus participants on their choice of new media. Participants will develop familiarity with the appropriate new media applications and have individualized training on setup and use. Trainers will share examples of specific use of each new media including, play therapy training, supervision, communications skills training, multicultural counseling, and psychopathology. Trainers will provide individualized training with participants and help them to form their plan to incorporate new media into their future coursework. Consultation will be available when attendees return to their home institutions. Come with an idea, leave with the skills and an action plan.
Keynote speaker – Nikki Giovanni
Friday, October 28, 2011
9:30 am
Nikki Giovanni is a world-renowned poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator. Over the past thirty years, her outspokenness, in her writing and in lectures, has brought the eyes of the world upon her. One of the most widely-read American poets, she prides herself on being “a Black American, a daughter, a mother, a professor of English.” Giovanni remains as determined and committed as ever to the fight for civil rights and equality. Always insisting on presenting the truth as she sees it, she has maintained a prominent place as a strong voice of the Black community. Her focus is on the individual, specifically, on the power one has to make a difference in oneself, and thus, in the lives of others.
NIKKI GIOVANNI was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Lincoln Heights, an all-black suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. She and her sister spent their summers with their grandparents in Knoxville, and she graduated with honors from Fisk University, her grandfather’s alma mater, in 1968; after graduating from Fisk, she attended the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University. She published her first book of poetry, Black Feeling Black Talk, in 1968, and within the next year published a second book, thus launching her career as a writer. Early in her career she was dubbed the “Princess of Black Poetry,” and over the course of more than three decades of publishing and lecturing she has come to be called both a “National Treasure” and, most recently, one of Oprah Winfrey’s twenty-five “Living Legends.”
Many of Giovanni’s books have received honors and awards. Her autobiography, Gemini, was a finalist for the National Book Award; Love Poems, Blues: For All the Changes, Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea, Acolytes, and Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat were all honored with NAACP Image Awards. Blues: For All the Changes reached #4 on the Los Angeles Times Bestseller list, a rare achievement for a book of poems. Most recently, her children’s picture book Rosa, about the civil rights legend Rosa Parks, became a Caldecott Honors Book, and Bryan Collier, the illustrator, was given the Coretta Scott King award for best illustration. Rosa also reached #3 on The New York Times Bestseller list. Shortly after its release, Bicycles: Love Poems reached #1 on Amazon.com for Poetry.
Giovanni’s spoken word recordings have also achieved widespread recognition and honors. Her album Truth Is On Its Way, on which she reads her poetry against a background of gospel music, was a top 100 album and received the Best Spoken Word Album given by the National Association of Radio and Television Announcers. Her Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection, on which she reads and talks about her poetry, was one of five finalists for a Grammy Award.
Giovanni’s honors and awards have been steady and plentiful throughout her career. The recipient of some twenty-five honorary degrees, she has been named Woman of the Year by Mademoiselle Magazine, The Ladies Home Journal, and Ebony Magazine. She was tapped for the Ohio Women’s Hall of Fame and named an Outstanding Woman of Tennessee. Giovanni has also received Governor’s Awards from both Tennessee and Virginia. She was the first recipient of the Rosa L. Parks Woman of Courage Award, and she has also been awarded the Langston Hughes Medal for poetry. She is an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and has received Life Membership and Scroll from The National Council of Negro Women. A member of PEN, she was honored for her life and career by The History Makers. She has received the keys to more than two dozen cities. A scientist who admires her work even named a new species of bat he discovered for her! Black Enterprise named her a Women of Power Legacy Award winner for work that expands opportunities for other women of color.
The author of some 30 books for both adults and children, Nikki Giovanni is a University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.
