Sunday, October 8
9-10:30 a.m.	CEI Registration: Click here for a registration form.
All day	Sharing Table: Please bring copies of handouts, exercises, syllabi, and any other material you want to share with your colleagues.
10:30-11:30 a.m.	CEI Session IA (Cedar A): "Collaborative Teams: From Workplace to Classroom—From Classroom to Workplace." With the increased emphases on teaching employability skills, English instructors need to incorporate more team activities. This session shows a collaborative writing model used in business and gives classroom management strategies for making small group activities successful. Presenter: Connie Cerniglia, Guilford Technical Community College Presider: Sharon Stover, Guilford Technical Community College CEI Session IB (Cedar B): "Technology's Yin and Yang Impact on the Human Experience." Many schools have fallen victim to the impulse to forsake the humanities focus for a historical/technological focus. This session explores how the American experience with technology has a human impact, forcing us to consider the human gain and loss involved in some of the greatest technological breakthroughs during the past two centuries. Presenter: Ron Layne, Robeson Community College Presider: Crystal Edmonds, Robeson Community College
11:30-11:45 a.m.	Break
11:45-1:45 p.m.	CEI Luncheon in Grandover. The highlight of the luncheon will be a reading by Poet Joseph Bathanti, instructor and writer-in-residence, Mitchell Community College. Introduction: Rosalyn Lomax, Wayne Community College
12:45-3:45 p.m.	Instructors Conference Pre-Conference Workshops
1:00-1:15 p.m.	Break
1:15-2:15 p.m.	CEI Session IIA (Cedar A): "Teaching Literary Research: A Student's Initiation into the Community of Scholars." The presenters will address the importance of students' teaching themselves through their own research. Teaching the methodology of research means teaching students to act on their own, to think for themselves, and to feel comfortable in a library. Presenters: Barbara Taylor, Dr. B. J. Zamora, and Brett Wallen, Cleveland Community College Presider: Barbara Taylor, Cleveland Community College CEI Session IIB (Cedar B): "Honors Program Roundtable Discussion." The coordinator of a newly-established honors program will moderate an informal discussion with those interested in developing an honors program or with those who have the program. Discussion will include how to start the program, establish entrance criteria and course materials, and market it.
1:30-6:00 p.m.	Instructors Conference Registraton
2:15-2:30 p.m.	Break
2:30-3:30 p.m.	CEI Session IIIA (Cedar A): "MLA Meets the Millennium." A Powerpoint component with a research project amplifies students' accountability and requires them to explore skills of visualization, publication, oral presentation, and computer proficiency. Presenter: Lenise Ramsey, Mayland Community College Presider: Renie Braswell, Mayland Community College CEI Session IIIB (Cedar B): JAMA and English Classes: A Successful Pairing." This session posits that The Journal of the American Medical Association is more than a resource for health care professionals. The presenter will model an assignment using JAMA in English 114 and discuss the possibilities for assignments in English 111 and 113. Presenter: Jane Heymann, Mitchell Community College Presider: Roxanne Newton, Mitchell Community College
4:00-5:15 p.m.	Instructors Conference General Session A
5:30-6:45 p.m.	Instructors Conference Reception: Guilford Prefunction Area, 3rd floor
7:00-8:30 p.m.	Instructors Conference General Session B: Guilford Ballroom A-B-C, 1st floor
9:00-10:00 p.m.	CEI Reception: Colony A. This reception is sponsored by Phil Byrd of Glencoe/McGraw-Hill.
Monday, October 9
11:45-1:30 p.m.	CEI Luncheon & Business Meeting: Grandover East. The speaker will be Elizabeth Isler from the North Carolina Community College System Office.
Note: Other sessions during the NCCCS Instructors Conference on October 9 and 10 are available from the dean of instruction's office at your local college.