The easiest way to make a video blog entry is to use the built-in camera on your laptop (or a computer with an attached web cam). Launch iMovie or Windows … Continue reading You will need to be able to make basic edits to videos you download or create, including cropping and trimming selections, adding […]
(More coming soon!) Class research wikis by Nancy Hightower’s WRTG 1150 classes Gender in Media Tech Nation: An Introspective Wiki on Technology and Education What Do You Know About Graffiti, … Continue reading Below is a list of links to sites that have sample videos either made by students or designed to inspire students. If […]
If you do a test screencast and discover it has no audio, try the following: CHECK YOUR QUICKTIME SETTINGS Choose “New Screen Recording” from the QuickTime Player File menu. Follow … Continue reading The instructions below are for QuickTime X, which comes on all Macs with OS 10.6. REMINDER: When using a new multimedia app, […]
Flip4Mac plugin for QuickTime (so you can play wmv and wav files — Apple approved) QuickTime for Windows FLV Crunch – simple media converter Multimedia applications on Mac and Windows computers don’t always make it easy to save or export files in a format that any computer can open, so if you find yourself … […]
Multimedia applications on Mac and Windows computers don’t always make it easy to save or export files in a format that any computer can open, so if you find yourself … Continue reading While you’re working on a project in Movie Maker, you should periodically choose Save from the File menu to save your project […]
This video packs in a LOT of concepts that you may not get right away, but it’s a good one to re-watch, study, and discuss. Extremely popular video that articulates how the nature of literacy has changed dramatically in the past 10-15 years, to the extent that the literacy practices currently enforced in higher education […]
Short overview of choosing a theme for your study guide blog. (Mainly for WRTG 3020 students.) Study Guide: Choosing Themes The design of the study guide blog includes elements that impact its visual appeal. Although you may not have thought about it this way, you have to make design decisions … Continue reading
Being able to highlight passages and put notes on a PDF file is extremely useful, particularly for students who don’t want to have to print out lots of documents but … Continue reading Being able to put highlight passages in and put notes on a PDF file is extremely useful, particularly for students who don’t […]
I don’t have easy access to a computer with Windows 7 and screencasting software, but thankfully lots of tutorials are available online. The 7Tutorials.com site has many useful handouts, including … Continue reading While you’re working on a project in Movie Maker, you should periodically choose Save from the File menu to save your project […]
Categories: Using Social Media Tools Looking for tools to help you manage the social media presence for the businesses or organizations you work for? Check out this page: Top 10 Social Media Dashboard Tools Categories: Using Social Media Tools Tags: Diigo, social bookmarking Diigo is a social bookmarking tool with a variety of useful features. […]
Categories: Peer Review Tools, Using Google Docs To inset a comment on a document in Google Docs, select a word or phrase in the document and then choose “Comment” from the Insert menu within the Google Docs … Continue reading → Categories: Peer Review Tools Tags: comment tools, Microsoft Office, Word This PDF handout provides […]
If you make a PowerPoint presentation that contains a lot of images, the file might end up being quite large in size, particularly if the images you used were very … Continue reading Every semester, I have at least two or three students who lose all their files, including final papers for my class, near […]
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 … Continue reading NOTE: I took a break from working on this site for the 2012-2013 academic year, but I will resume updates starting with […]
These notes on general tips for writing and revising are a work in progress, but they should be helpful to students in any of my WRTG classes. Before you do peer reviews in my class, I want to encourage you to think about the rhetorical purpose of peer review from several perspectives. (1) From the […]
