Understanding Digital Literacy | Digital Writing 101

This video packs in a LOT of concepts that you may not get right away, but it’s a good one to re-watch, study, and discuss.

Extremely popular video that articulates how the nature of literacy has changed dramatically in the past 10-15 years, to the extent that the literacy practices currently enforced in higher education …

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Shows some statistics about what employers want that should motivate any student to bump up those digital literacy skills!

What does it mean to be literate in the 21st century?

The description below is from my syllabus for the first-year writing courses I taught at CU Boulder in the Spring and Fall of 2010. I asked students to focus specifically …

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The page below is from my WRTG 3020 Syllabus (current as of July 27, 2011, but subject to revision!). I’m posting it here for those who might be interested in …

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