The Virtual Teaching and Learning Center

The Virtual Teaching and Learning Center is the collective online home page for all the Writing Initiative's online resources.

Our Initiative faculty fellows can download resources and also post their course syllabi, class and resource materials for use by other faculty members and students.

The site offers web resources on:

• The Writing Initiative
• The Writing Center
• Portfolio Use at PCCC and help using our ePortfolio software
• eTutoring resources
• Information on current faculty professional development opportunities

Though the website is focused on faculty professional development, students will also find useful resources.

For example, there are links to

• LibGuides for all Writing Intensive courses. These guides contain many things that will be helpful to students in any section of that course. 
• Other non-WI course guides
• Student Workshops available in the Writing center for all students at PCCC
• Student help sites - including library guides on topics like creating bibliographies and citations, information on the College Writing Exam, Disability Support Services, help using ePortfolios and eTutoring, the PCCC Writing Center, a guide to Online Learning at PCCC and the Online Success Center.

Go to pccc.libguides.com/vtlc as your starting place for all things teaching and learning at Passaic County Community College.

The Virtual Writing Center

Wanaque Academic Center

Passaic County Community College's Main Campus is located in downtown Paterson, New Jersey. We also have satellite campuses at the Wanaque Academic Center in Wanaque, the Public Safety Academy in Wayne, and the newest site, our Passaic Academic Center in Passaic.

The under-construction PCCC Writing Center will be physically located on the Paterson campus. Fortunately, all of the WI courses redesigned as part of the Title V program will have online technologies that are important to these groups of students.

The use of eTutoring, Blackboard, LibGuides and ePortfolios are some of additional components of WI courses that Title V can support monetarily by providing software, support and compensation for faculty who choose to participate in the Initiative.

Since WI courses will be offered eventually at all four locations and also online, we are considering more ways to make writing assistance available on the Net through a "virtual" teaching and learning center website.

We are also preparing a schedule to offer face-to-face support at Wanaque to WI courses.

WI courses are scheduled to begin being offered on the Passaic campus in fall 2010.

Of course, all students in these courses from any location will be able to use the Writing Center in Paterson at any time.