TEACHING DIGITAL COMPOSITION | Digital Writing 101

Trying to decide whether to use a blog to supplement or replace a course management system like D2L? These slides will help you determine if a blog is right for …

Prepared for COLTT 2011 I prepared these notes for a two-hour presentation and workshop for faculty at the Colorado Teaching and Learning with Technology conference, held at CU Boulder every …

Below is a short presentation I delivered in a session on Using Digital Tools for writing instructors at CU Boulder. I drew on many resources to develop this condensed version …

Prepared for Emory University I delivered the presentation below at the Emory Symposium on Digital Publication, Undergraduate Research, and Writing on January 29, 2013. Teaching Digital Composition: Tips & Approaches …

Below is a presentation I was asked to put together in 2011 in order to explain the role of digital literacy in writing instruction to those outside the field. Digital …

Common Teaching Issue: Students could use more help reading academic articles I notice this problem in two ways: in how students respond to articles as assigned readings and in how …

The slides below are from a workshop I gave on using iMovie ’11 to create a simple digital storytelling project. The slides walk you through the digital storytelling process as …

The gallery below shows the most recent entries on on my Share Your Digital Literacy Stories Vimeo channel. For more info on my digital literacy interviews, scroll down below the …

The links below are of particular interest to those who teach digital storytelling, rather than those in the process of learning to compose them, although some sites cover both. For …

I’ve been telling my students that writing is a “design art” for a while now, as a way of conveying that rhetorically effective writing is about more than stringing words …

Do you ask your students to write for the web? Do you post course materials on the web? If so, you might want to check out the new Web Writing …

Wondering what kind of composition skills today’s grade school kids will be bringing with them to college? Check out the winners of the International Student Media Festival. See the 2010 …

Here are a few tips for educators who are thinking of offering digital storytelling as an option for student projects.

WEB SITES Viz: Visual Rhetoric -Visual Culture – Visual Pedagogy The award-winning digital publication viz. is committed to the intersections of Rhetoric and visual culture. In keeping with its mission …

Common Teaching Issue: Doing peer review with Word files results in too many separate copies of each draft Anyone who has asked students to do peer review by downloading copies …

Common Teaching Issue: Students sometimes don’t follow writing advice Every writing instructor knows the frustration of reading a student’s final paper and realizing that the student has not incorporated the …