This screencast provides a short overview of how to manage links in the sidebar of a WordPress blog. FOR STUDY GUIDES As I noted in the first Study Guide Blog Overview screencast, all WordPress blogs come with a default set of links under the Blogroll category that all relate to the administration of a WordPress […]
You may have seen smaller clips of Andrea Lunsford’s comments on the changing nature of literacy and how that impacts student writing at the university level, but I just found the full version, which includes other scholars as well. [youtube 5es_kbAaBvI] (View on YouTube.)
In order to create an audio story or essay, or to create an audio voiceover for a video, you’ll need two things: (1) a recording device (a laptop with internal or external mic OR a smart phone); and (2) software for recording and editing audio. Mac users should use GarageBand, while I recommend Audacity as […]
Presentation by Alex E. (LGBT Studies – Spring 2012) My target audience is really anyone open minded and knowledgeable with how to view a Prezi. The information is very straight forward and the concepts aren’t difficult to understand. Really, the presentation is meant to be a simple design, and the first exposure for some people […]
NOTE: To use the method described here, you’ll need access to your classmates’ drafts through a shared class folder the instructor set up. You’ll find your classmates’ drafts in the appropriate sub-folder within that shared folder. An easy way to provide feedback on a classmate’s draft in Google Docs is to use the comment tool. […]
If you’re planning to produce an audio essay or to provide audio narration for a visual project, read the following tips. I can’t stress enough how important this is. Before you record your transcript, do a very short test. Record yourself saying something like “testing 1 2 3” and listen to it, just to make […]
Here is a “big picture” guide to the kind of apps and web sites you can use to compose and share messages in new media formats. Once you get the “big picture,” you’ll find it easier to make sense of the choices available to you. To find specific apps and web sites, use the search […]
For long blog posts as well as drafts and final versions of projects, put the content of the post behind a “read more” tag. That way the long content won’t clutter up the blog front page or category archive page, and readers can click on the “read more” link to see your post in full. […]
(1) Go to the Camtasia downloads page, enter your email address, and click on Download for Mac OS X. Your web browser may prompt you to specify a location for the downloaded file. If it doesn’t, then it will download the file to whatever you set to be the your default Downloads folder in the […]
You can find lots of planning tools, particularly storyboard tools, with a little Google searching. I found the one below on this page of Digital Storytelling Tools and thought it sounded nifty enough to share here. Amazon Storybuilder TYPE: Story planner FROM THE WEB SITE: Amazon Storybuilder is a cloud-based writing tool from Amazon Studios […]
Jaima, a Fall 2014 student, made this comic to educate viewers about the differences between “gay” and “queer” as identities.
Infographics have long been popular ways to share information in visual formats, but only recently have tools emerged that allow anyone to create an infographic without needing access to professional quality graphics software. You still need a good eye for design and a clear rhetorical purpose, however! Here’s a handy guide to 8 Types of […]
I’ve been assigning digital media projects since 2010, and I try to select at least two or three from each semester to share here as samples. Most of the samples come from one of the two classes I most often teach: WRTG 3020: Rhetoric of Gender and Sexuality and WRTG 3090/ATLS 3519: Storytelling Through New […]
One key concept in the study of rhetoric is the rhetorical situation, which refers to the factors that influence the creation of a message. Broadly speaking, the rhetorical situation includes all the elements that help you better understand how a particular text is attempting to enter an ongoing conversation, and unless you understand that, you’re […]
