For the majority of Americans, this economic recession indicates a time when adults and parents are forced to work more hours, sometimes at multiple jobs, for less wage and spending less time at home with their kids. As a result, middle-lower class children may have to turn to non traditional sources to learn normative behavior. […]
If you make your audio essay in GarageBand, you will need to export it as an mp3 file before you can share it with the class (on the blog or … Continue reading If you followed the instructions on How to use Audacity to record audio and can’t get the Export as MP3 option to […]
ABOUT ANIMATION: To learn more about different forms of animation, see this guide: Different Approaches to Animation For more animation apps, see: Desktop & Mobile Apps for Animation STOP MOTION … Continue reading Here’s a digital storytelling project a student made mostly with cut-out animation and a small amount of voiceover: Training in Pain, by […]
RELATED RESOURCES: The RIGHT Way to Save Images from the Web How to Make Your Images Web-Ready POP QUIZ! Of the following statements, can you spot the only one that’s … Continue reading Every writer has heard the phrase “show, don’t tell,” but figuring out exactly what that means can take a while. This guide […]
ALSO POTENTIALLY RELEVANT: How to make images web-ready (cropping and resizing in Preview) and How to annotate PDFs (in Preview). Change the Default PDF Reader to Preview Preview is a … Continue reading MAC USERS If you can print it from your Mac, you can save it as a PDF. This works with nearly all […]
Web Site by Zoel (WRTG 3020 – Fall 2012) My website is called ASL Gender and Sexuality Terms. It is about American Sign Language (ASL) and its representation of gender … Continue reading Web site by Jess (WRTG 3020 – Fall 2012) My website, You are what you eat: The gender nature of food and […]
A “hosting” site is one that allows users to upload and publish their own content, so that they can easily share the content with others by distributing the link or embedding the content into a blog post or web page. Documents & Presentations I’ve used all of these at one point or another, but the […]
You can upload files to Google Drive or create them using one of Drive’s many tools, and these items will appear by default in your main My Drive directory, where they are private to you only. If you want to share files with a group that has a shared folder set up, you can move […]
I created this help page for students who will be making video blog entries or video interviews for the first time, using iMovie ’11. The steps below are very basic … Continue reading For most video projects, you will need to be able to make basic edits to videos you download or create, including cropping […]
RELATED RESOURCES: The RIGHT Way to Save Images from the Web How to Make Your Images Web-Ready POP QUIZ! Of the following statements, can you spot the only one that’s … Continue reading Pitch: What would you do if something you relied so heavily on was taken from you…while you were in the middle of […]
Want to try conveying a message in the form of a comic strip or comic book “short story”? Check out the options below, but also do your own Google searches … Continue reading NOTE: For related posts, browse the tag archive for: screencasting A screencast is a video recording of whatever is displayed on the […]
A “hosting” site is one that allows users to upload and publish their own content, so that they can easily share the content with others by distributing the link or … Continue reading (Sample Student Project) A Confusing Path to Self Discovery AMY’S NOTE: Joanie composed the project using Comic Life, a downloadable app for […]
WHAT IS READER-FRIENDLY WRITING? While you’re in school, most of your writing is directed towards a teacher who is obligated to read it. But after college, most of your writing … Continue reading I’ve been telling my students that writing is a “design art” for a while now, as a way of conveying that rhetorically […]
WHAT IS “WEB READY” FORMAT? iMovie and Windows MovieMaker are non-linear video editing systems, which means that they allow you to assemble video projects from a variety of media files … Continue reading
