Mini-Doc by Stephanie and Orphea (WRTG 3020 – Fall 2012) Stephanie and I made a minidocumentary about CU Heterosexual Males and Pornography. We wanted to explore what heterosexual males thought about the pornography they had been watching and what gender messages they picked up on. Target audience: college students and educators Purpose: to see if […]
A Fall 2012 student made this comic to illustrate a personal experience she had with someone who revealed his sexual orientation to the student group she participated in. Click each set of panels to view them at full size.
PLAYABLE AUDIO Audience My intended audience is college- age students who have taken a Gender Studies class and understand sex as the anatomic and structural make-up of one’s genitalia and gender as what an individual personally feels he/she is regardless of his/her reproductive organs. I want to target these individuals who are interested in evaluating […]
The research presented on this site is well worth exploring further, as it relates to all kinds of digital composition: Digital Storytelling Multimedia Archive. The site’s title was poorly chosen, as it doesn’t convey the nature of the research Matthias Oppermann and Michael Coventry have compiled over five years of studying digital storytelling projects in […]
Here’s a brief overview of the features relevant to some of the most common genres used in new media writing. To learn more about the approaches to new media writing that work well for each genre, see the Overview of Common Approaches page in the About New Media Writing category. Purpose: to bring clarity to […]
Last week, we talked about turning oneself into a character in creative nonfiction. This week, our focus is on creating compelling characters of other people. My students read a roundtable consideration on this craft issue that was published in a long-ago issue of Fourth Genre. One of the participants, Donald Morrill, talks about how characters […]
I used this assignment for my Spring 2011 sections of WRTG 3020. You can find some of the projects produced for this assignment in the Research Projects category on my Rhetoric of Gender and Sexuality blog. NOTE: Given that I simply copied and pasted the assignment over from my class web site, some of the […]
Cartoon by Jamie (WRTG 3020 – Spring 2011) Rhetorical Analysis The target audience for my cartoon is mostly other college students interested in personal accounts of gender and sexuality. Although they are the main audience, I believe personal stories, like my cartoon, are suitable and beneficial for all audiences interested in the subject or curious […]
Mini-documentary by Jessica (WRTG 3020 – Fall 2012) My video is directed towards soon to be/new parents in order to create awareness about the influence of gendered toys on children. I think the LGBTQ community would also take an interest in my video since it relates to choosing who you really are and how you […]
Explainer Video by Audrey (WRTG 3020 – Fall 2013) My video is about the difference between sex and gender. I interviewed fellow classmates and got their opinion on what they think is the difference. Then I go on to explain the dictionary definitions. I also talk about the cultural aspects of the two words and […]
A Personal Narrative by Danie (WRTG 3020 – Fall 2011) Target Audience: Anyone interested in gender studies or just interested in a story of someone coming into their own. Purpose:┬áTo share a story to those who have gone through similar struggles or completely different struggles and to help them through their own journeys. I also […]
You might find it interesting to look through the first and second issues of The JUMP: The Journal of Undergraduate Multimedia Projects, most of which were prepared by students in writing and rhetoric classes. Here is the intro to the second issue, which has the title Re/mix & Memes: In this issue you will find […]
This screencast tutorial gives you an overview of how to use GarageBand ’09 to record an audio essay and how to export the file as an mp3. GarageBand comes free with all Macs as part of the iLife suite, which also includes iPhoto and iMovie. The version I’m demonstrating in the tutorial is ’09, which […]
The StoryCorps approach works well for students who are interested in storytelling and who would like to try composing an audio narrative or a live video interview. About StoryCorps is an “independent nonprofit whose mission is to provide people of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of […]
