Digital Story by Kathryn (WRTG 3090 – Fall 2012) AMY’S NOTE: This is one of the samples by students who took WRTG 3090/ATLS 3519 the first time it was offered, in Fall 2012 under the title “Intro to Digital Storytelling.” The digital stories they made were based on the approach taught by the Center for […]
Some of you may already be familiar with the work of Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis with regard to multiliteracies and the changing nature of teaching and learning. (See their web site: New Learning) The video below features Bill Cope delivering a lecture on “Digital Literacy: Changing the Dynamics of Learning.” At around 12:00, he […]
NOTE: I used the assignment below for my Fall 2010 sections of WRTG 3020. This is an archived version of the assignment, which I’ve since transformed into a Digital Storytelling project. In this unit, we will explore another common source of knowledge about gender and sexuality: personal experience. In order to explore what we can […]
ABOUT: If you’re most interested in helping your audience better understand particular issues or concepts, these approaches might be of interest. These approaches typically fall under one or both of these genres & purposes: educational (to inform, educate, or raise awareness) analysis (to explain or clarify) Concept in Brief Formats: any visual format, but videos […]
If you’re planning to write the kind of blog post you’re putting so much work into that you’d be devastated to lose it, I HIGHLY recommend that you compose the analysis in a text editor on your computer and save it frequently. This also applies to any blog post that you plan to apply formatting […]
Every writing instructor knows the frustration of reading a student’s final paper and realizing that the student has not incorporated the changes he or she went to great pains to advise the student to make. Or of realizing that the student has not followed the advice provided in class lectures or reading materials. My solution […]
Orientation Video by Matt and team (WRTG 3035 – Spring 2011) For their final project in WRTG 3035: Technical Communication and Design, these students had a great time making this funny and informational video for new engineering students at CU.
Two Fall 2014 students made this comic, using Pixton. Students’ Preface In chapter 2 Garbacik discusses how the construction of gender roles originated. One contributing factor was Darwin and his theories about sex differences and male superiority. We made our comic to illustrate a ridiculous extreme the genetics argument can come to.
Digital Story by Ashley (WRTG 3090 – Fall 2012) AMY’S NOTE: This is one of the samples by students who took WRTG 3090/ATLS 3519 the first time it was offered, in Fall 2012 under the title “Intro to Digital Storytelling.” The digital stories they made were based on the approach taught by the Center for […]
A Mini-Doc by Tori (WRTG 3020 – Fall 2013) One commonality between fraternity men and homosexual men is that they are both stereotyped, but is the stereotype for fraternity guys changing? Rhetorical Situation: The audience I am trying to reach is the general public who has a negative stigma towards fraternity guys. The CU Greek […]
An Experiment in Stop Motion by Amy Goodloe Approach: This was my first attempt at doing stop motion video (in 2012), using dog toys as an easy source of objects to move. Tools: I took over 100 photos using an Olympus micro four-thirds camera on a tripod, and I used iMovie to assemble and export […]
This screencast video shows you the basics of using Google Docs to upload and create word processing documents, share them with your class, and write comments for peer review: The video illustrates how to upload a Word document to your Google Docs account, but you can use the same process to upload other kinds of […]
This audio personal narrative was composed by Chava Bobb for the Spring 2011 campus section of WRTG 3020. You can read Chava’s rhetorical analysis of the project on the class blog for the campus section. To listen to her audio essay, click on the link to the mp3 below or on the play button, if […]
Our conversation in workshop today centered on Phillip Lopate’s craft article, “Writing Personal Essays: On the Necessity of Turning Oneself Into a Character,” which appears in Writing Creative Nonfiction, edited by Carolyn Forche and Philip Gerard. Lopate points out the importance of the essayist becoming a round character in his or her essay, dramatizing the […]
