Explanatory Video by Amy Goodloe About the Project At the “Digital Media and Composition” workshop I attended in the summer of 2011, we were asked to compose messages in a variety of modes and media. For one activity we were asked to compose a “concept in 60 seconds” video that conveyed a message about the […]
PLAYABLE AUDIO This story is about my experience working the graveyard shift. BIO Stephen Motta currently lives in Boulder, CO.  He is an artist and filmmaker. DOWNLOADS Downloadable MP3 motta-graveyardshift-script.pdf
Eunice, a Fall 2014 student, made this comic to illustrate how we learn gender roles. Student’s Commentary This comic provides a overall summary/snapshot of the first section in Chapter 4 (Modern Construction of Gender Roles). It encompasses how gender roles have been formed within the household (parenting) and in school. Although the content of this […]
Personal Narrative by Stephanie (WRTG 3020 – Fall 2010) Stephanie wrote out what she wanted to say and then recorded herself reading it while displaying images she found on the web. She had wanted to use her own photos, as other students had done, but she was unable to gather them in digital format in […]
This screencast gives you a brief overview of how to customize the sidebar on your study guide blog (applicable only to WRTG 3020 students). WRTG 3020: Study Guide Blog: Sidebars from Amy Goodloe on Vimeo.
This screencast illustrates how to create a shared collection on Google Docs. Once you create the collection, you can then share it with your students, colleagues, or friends and then anything any member puts into the collection will be visible to all members.
NOTE: The material below is from a syllabus page for my Fall 2012 digital storytelling class. Our primary goal across all projects is to explore contemporary ways of engaging in the ancient tradition of storytelling. While storytelling can be defined fairly broadly, we will focus on the form of storytelling known as the personal narrative. […]
After you register for an account on the class domain, you’ll be able to log into the class web site and edit your WordPress account settings, which will allow you to: change your display name upload a user photo choose a password you’ll find easy to remember (1) Log into the class blog using the […]
Below is a small selection of video projects that demonstrate some of the possibilities of digital composition, and, in a few cases, make commentary on it. Consider what would be lost if the creators of these messages had to convey them only in text on a page! Most of the projects were composed using tools […]
I thought it might be helpful to educators to see how I’ve integrated digital literacies into the main learning goals for my upper-division writing course, which is offered at CU Boulder under WRTG 3020: Topics in Writing & Rhetoric. To arrive at these goals, I’ve synthesized material from departmental and national statements about the objectives […]
Good question! I suspect what they really college graduates need most are skills and knowledge that (a) are incredibly hard to measure; and, even more to the point, (b) are incredibly hard to teach. What Degrees Should Mean Inside Higher Ed, January 25, 2011 What should a college graduate know and be able to do? […]
A Digital Story by Amy Goodloe This project is an example of a CDS-style digital storytelling project, which is one of your options for a video project. In June 2012, I participated in a Center for Digital Storytelling workshop that gave me the opportunity to produce a new version of the story below, to better […]
Personal Narrative by Sara (WRTG 3020 – Fall 2013) Ever wonder what it was like to be a girl growing up in between two brothers? Let me tell you, you definitely don’t grow up to be a girly girl. Rhetorical Situation: With this project I was hoping to reach girls who play male dominated sports, […]
A Fall 2014 student made this animation (using the free animation maker at GoAnimate.com) to illustrate how gender policing can happen in schools. Student’s Commentary How do gender stereotypes get reinforced by peers? How do people deal with them? The gender binary system is conserved through various societal idealized beliefs about gender. In this particular […]
