This Summer, A&L’s staff, taking in the fact that we would be working online for the year ahead and dispersed from our lovely home in 15 West …
took a good look at how we do things. We were grateful that while we couldn’t host students for collective writing events or cozy v.1 readings, our core work, one-to-one tutoring …
is remarkably resilient and transferable to an online space. Working one-to-one on a writing, speaking, or visual project in Zoom even has special benefits—from shared Google-doc editing or access to one’s own bookshelves or artwork to a certain kind of focused intimacy. It’s not that we won’t miss our physical togetherness while we’re visiting each other on screens, but we feel lucky that the essence of peer tutoring—two unique minds and selves meeting and thinking together—can be as constructive and meaningful as ever.
There’s one more big change we are about to make that you might notice: We’re reorganizing and expanding our handouts, videos, and links to allow for more topic-focused independent learning. Check out the link on our home page to A&L’s Resource Guides.
As you meet with tutors and access our resources, please don’t hesitate to reach out with feedback, suggestions, or questions. We are “here” for you, in our virtual office (see link on home page), every weekday, and always available by e-mail (artsandlanguage@risd.edu or jliese@risd.edu).