(I’ll use this post to feature a few student videos that aren’t easily available on my other sites.) Here’s a video by three of my Fall 2011 WRTG 3035 students, … Continue reading I’ve been trying to remember to archive all of my digital composition assignments under the Archiving category on my main web site, […]
Below are a few resources to help you find materials that have already been labelled for re-use, sometimes under certain conditions. When in doubt, contact the creator or publisher of … Continue reading Here are a few resources you can browse to learn more about the concept of remixes. I’m still gathering more resources and […]
Get Firefox If you don’t already have the web browser Firefox installed on your computer, as an alternative to Safari or Internet Explorer, then go to the Mozilla page and … Continue reading If you’re working on a project that would benefit from having clips from videos, such as scenes from TV shows, and you’re […]
You’ll need to decide what elements to include on your study guide sidebar and how to customize them, if needed. At a minimum, you should probably use the following widgets, … Continue reading As you already know, blog posts should be assigned to categories, typically only one category per post (although you might see a […]
Categories: For WordPress Editors Tags: sidebar menu, study guide You’ll need to decide what elements to include on your study guide sidebar and how to customize them, if needed. At a minimum, you should probably use the following widgets, … Continue reading → Categories: For WordPress Editors Tags: categories, sidebar menu, study guide As you […]
OVERVIEW To embed a video or audiovisual essay you created into a blog post, you will need to upload it to a free video hosting site like YouTube or Vimeo … Continue reading Want to embed your own video? Start here: How to share a video you created with others (for instructions on uploading to […]
This screencast shows you how to add a bit of music to the opening of your audio essay and also in the middle, perhaps for a transition into a new … Continue reading This screencast demonstrates how to make a simple voice recording in GarageBand ’11 (which should look similar to GarageBand ’09). The screencast […]
You don’t need to know a thing about the technical details of creating animations, nor do you need to be at all artistic, to make some pretty amazing animated cartoons. … 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 […]
OVERVIEW To embed a video or audiovisual essay you created into a blog post, you will need to upload it to a free video hosting site like YouTube or Vimeo … Continue reading If you want to make a video you posted on YouTube visible only to selected people, rather than publicly available through a […]
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 This screencast shows you how to add a bit of music to the opening of your audio essay and also in the […]
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 […]
NOTE: I wrote this page for my WRTG 3020 students, who have the option to customize a blog as part of one of their projects. The layout of the study … Continue reading This screencast provides a short overview of how to manage links in the sidebar of a WordPress blog. FOR STUDY GUIDES As […]
WHAT IS A SCREENCAST? A screencast is a “broadcast” of what appears on your computer screen. In other words, it’s a video recorded by an app on your computer of … Continue reading If you do a test screencast and discover it has no audio, try the following: CHECK YOUR QUICKTIME SETTINGS Choose “New Screen […]
This screencast tutorial demonstrates the basics of using Audacity to record an audio essay and export it as an mp3 file. The tutorial shows the Mac version of Audacity, but … Continue reading This screencast tutorial gives you an overview of how to use GarageBand ’09 to record an audio essay and how to export […]
