Wondering what this site’s all about? If you missed the opening page, you can view it by clicking on the About tab, above. Update 9/6/13: I decided to reintegrate the teaching resources I had previously put on a sub-site, but I ended up with some duplicates, so please pardon the mess while I clean everything […]
(Originally posted on the blog for my section of WRTG 3035: Technical Communication and Design.) Here’s another entry into our collection of design successes and failures. As the “designer” in … Continue reading This is an archived version of an Instructions Project assignment I used for WRTG 3035 in Fall 2011. To view their final […]
STEP 1: ROUGH DRAFT If you’d like to produce an audio essay, the first step is to write a rough draft the same way you would for any other kind … Continue reading Below you’ll find some of the most common approaches to digital composition projects, beyond digital storytelling, which I’ve covered more extensively elsewhere. […]
This is part 1 of a “sampler” video that showcases a variety of Digital Humanities projects funded by the NEH. Click here to jump to the starting point for this … Continue reading Just saw this announcement on the Chronicle web site: Announcing Digital Humanities Questions & Answers (@DHAnswers). Might be of interest to some […]
MovieMaker for XP and Vista is pretty easy to use as it guides you through the process of adding photos, adding audio, creating title cards, and inserting special effects and transitions. Those same features are available in MovieMaker for Windows 7, but they’re a bit harder to find. INSTRUCTIONS I don’t use Windows myself and […]
I want to introduce you to some strategies you can use to better understand and relate to material you’re reading about. These strategies can also be used to generate potential … Continue reading These notes on general tips for writing and revising are a work in progress, but they should be helpful to students in […]
OVERVIEW Below is an ever-expanding list of the software applications I recommend you have available, even if only in free trial mode, in order to work on digital composition projects. … Continue reading Wondering what this site’s all about? If you missed the opening page, you can view it by clicking on the About tab, […]
Categories: Using Other Tools Click through this demo slideshow to see a better way to showcase photos using PowerPoint. View on SlideShare See below for the how-to’s. STEP BY STEP (quick version for now; … Continue reading → Categories: USING DIGITAL TOOLS, Using Other Tools Tags: PowerPoint If you make a PowerPoint presentation that contains […]
Under the Teaching sub-menu, above, you’ll find a bibliography of academic articles on digital composition, a Q&A about digital literacy and writing instruction, and an example of how to integrate digital literacy into the course learning goals for an upper division writing and rhetoric class. Also be sure to browse the categories under Teaching Digital […]
Below you’ll find one of the main learning goals for my writing classes. See the Learning Goals page for links to the others. One of CU Boulder’s goals, as outlined in the Flagship 2030 initiative, is to help students develop the digital literacy skills they need to improve the quality of their learning, to prepare […]
On this page you’ll find links to sample digital composition projects by students at CU and beyond, organized into common modes: audio, video, web sites, and other modes. These projects are designed to address a variety of audiences and purposes. To view samples that fit into the narrower category of “digital storytelling,” see the Digital […]
(I will continue to add links to this post as I come across them.) Most of the links below are to sites that might be helpful to students and others who’d like to compose digital stories. For web resources specifically oriented towards teachers who assign digital storytelling, browse the Teaching Digital Storytelling category on the […]
I originally wrote this handout to help my WRTG 2090 students with their personal essays delivered in audio format. Characteristics of Good Personal Essays Here are some of the characteristics of “good” personal essays from our class brainstorming session: genuine and honest; reflects writer’s thoughts and feelings and what they care about makes a personal […]
In order to create a photo essay, you will need to use an application that allows you to combine, edit, and adjust photos and audio and export the resulting project in a compressed format suitable for sharing on the web (such as m4v, mov, or mp4). If you have a Mac, your best bet is […]
