Record and Reflect: iPod Use in Writing Center Staff Development

Writing centers, as anyone who has spent time in one knows, are active places. [1] Tutors and writers, together or alone, can be found at any moment researching, writing, talking, listening to their iPods. . .wait a minute. . .listening to their iPods?![2] Here is a sample of what tutors in our writing center are listening to: For the past four years, the staff of the Fairfield University Writing Center has adapted and expanded an initiative begun at Duke University’s Writing Studio to incorporate the use of iPod technology in writing center sessions and staff education. Doing so has sharpened our staff development program and increased tutors’ abilities to reflect on their work with student writers