Digital Composition Samples | Digital Writing 101

On this page you’ll find links to sample digital composition projects by students at CU and beyond, organized into common modes: audio, video, web sites, and other modes. These projects are designed to address a variety of audiences and purposes.

To view samples that fit into the narrower category of “digital storytelling,” see the Digital Storytelling Samples page.

Use this Table of Contents to quickly access each section of this page:

SAMPLES BY CU STUDENTS

– Audio
– Videos
– Web Sites
– Other Formats

BEYOND CU

– Other Student Projects

SAMPLES BY CU STUDENTS

Unless otherwise indicated, the samples come from students in my sections of WRTG 1150, 2090, 3020, 3035, and 3090 as well as ATLAS 3519.

AUDIO

“This I Believe” Essays

From Nancy Hightower’s WRTG 1150:

From Michelle Albert’s WRTG 3020:

  • WRTG 3020 Wiki (follow links on sidebar)

Personal Narratives (WRTG 3020)

Every semester I feature the strongest student audio projects under this category on my Rhetoric of Gender and Sexuality blog:Featured Audio Essays

Here are direct links to the featured audio essays produced by students between Fall 2010 and Fall 2012:

Digital Literacy Narratives (WRTG 1150)

VIDEOS

Photo Essays (WRTG 3020)

Every semester I feature the strongest student photo essays on my Rhetoric of Gender and Sexuality blog, under the Videos category. Because this category also includes other types of videos, I’ve tagged those that serve as examples of “photo essays” (or narrated photo slideshows) so that you can easily find them by browsing the tag archive for photo essays.

Here are direct links to a few of the most popular photo essays in that category, which were produced by students between Fall 2010 and Fall 2012. But please browse the tag archive for more.

Animations (WRTG 3020)

Mini-Documentaries (WRTG 3020)

Promotional or Educational Videos

Service learning videos for Petger Schaberg’s WRTG 1250 classes:

  • Spring 2011 Gallery
  • Fall 2010 Gallery

Kinetic Typography/Digital Poetry (WRTG 3020)

WEB SITES

Educational web sites for WRTG 3020

Class research wikis by Nancy Hightower’s WRTG 1150 classes

OTHER FORMATS

  • Standalone presentations (WRTG 3020)
  • Comic strips (WRTG 3020)

SAMPLES BY STUDENTS BEYOND CU

Most of the samples in the collections below are in the form of videos, but they include a variety of approaches, such as mini-documentary, promotional, and digital storytelling.

If you know of other sites I should add to this list, please let me know, particularly if the sites feature digital compositions in formats other than video.