Below are a few screencasts that might be helpful to those of you who are using WordPress.com blogs. For more handouts and screeencasts, see this new page under the Resources menu: Handouts & Screencasts. SCREENCASTS FOR STUDENTS: STUDENTS: Sign up for a WordPress.com account STUDENTS: Posting a comment on your class blog STUDENTS: Posting a […]
This screencast offers a rhetorical rationale for the decisions I made when designing and organizing the WRTG 3020 Summer 2011 Class Blog. I made the screencast for two reasons: to help students better understand the kinds of rhetorical decisions that go into designing reading for web audiences to give students an idea for what a […]
This screencast shows you how to create a new project, add photos, adjust the display time, and apply photo effects like Ken Burns or cropping. The screencast features iMovie ’11 but the steps shown are very similar for the ’08 and ’09 versions of iMovie. SLIDE VERSION I used the slides below in a workshop […]
To make a post “stick” to the top of your most recent blog entries page, even after you’ve posted newer entries, make it “sticky.” (This option is only available on blogs where you have sufficient permission, so depending on which blog you’re using, you may not see the sticky option.) To make a sticky post, […]
The nature of literacy — of what it means to “read” and to “write” — have fundamentally changed in response to the emergence of digital tools and environments, which provide today’s writers with access to rhetorical situations and strategies previously available only in theory. If we intend to educate students for the future of writing […]
I don’t often teach WRTG 1150, but the last time I did (in Fall 2010), we focused on digital literacy as a topic and a practice. Students composed digital literacy narratives, which they recorded as audio essays. I’ve included a small selection of these essays below. Scroll down the page for more information on the […]
“Digital Is: Interdisciplinary Writing Resources” by ProfHacker The Chronicle of Higher Education – March 30, 2011 One of the most exciting initiatives of the National Writing Project (NWP) is called Digital Is: “a collection of resources, reflections, and stories about what it means to teach writing in our digital, interconnected world.” Digital Is simultaneously facilitates […]
UPDATE: See this new post, which expands on some of these suggestions: Rhetorical considerations for online course materials NOTE: These tips are under development, but I’m posting what I have thus far in case it’s of interest to anyone passing by! If you’d like some assistance with the process of actually implementing any of these […]
http://vimeo.com/82162476 (video seems to be missing — will check with student) Video project by Taylor (WRTG 3020 – Fall 2013) Do you know what the common Google searches are? Do you know how these words sound out loud to others? We need to be careful what we say, and this may be the first step […]
GENDER SUPRESSED SKILLS by glen.gomez on GoAnimate Animation by Glen (WRTG 3020 – Summer 2011) Comments by Amy: What I particularly like is how the animation allows the student to tell a personal story without having to divulge anything too private, since it’s obviously not the literal story of what happened to him as a […]
Digital Story by MacKenzie (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 […]
Remix video by Collin (WRTG 3020 – Fall 2013) Rhetorical Context Audience The audience that I intended for the video were fans of the show How I Met Your Mother. I thought this would be a good representation of our generation because this show has been one of the most popular television shows for the […]
http://digitalwriting101.net/wp-content/uploads/audio/Smith-Not-Quite-Coming-Out-Story.mp3 Audience: The target audience for this project are my friends and family who already know me and ask me the question “so you’re gay?” This is the long response, to help them see how complex the answer to this ‘yes or no’ question actually is. Purpose: The purpose of this story is to […]
ABOUT THIS PROMPT: I gave the following prompt to my Spring 2014 students before they watched the stop motion film Bottle, which is about the emotional experience of a missed connection. Have you ever experienced meeting someone who seemed particularly special, like the two of you had the potential for a really deep connection (as […]
