RELATED RESOURCES: The RIGHT Way to Save Images from the Web How to Make Your Images Web-Ready POP QUIZ! Of the following statements, can you spot the only one that’s … Continue reading For the sake of simplicity, I merged the info from this page into the one I originally created for finding reusable images. […]
Instructors use blogs in the classroom for a variety of purposes and in a wide range of ways. One common purpose is to present course materials, such as daily assignments, with each assignment in a new blog entry. Blog software makes this process very easy, with little to no knowledge of HTML required. Instructors can also […]
Jaima, a Fall 2014 student, made this comic to educate viewers about the differences between “gay” and “queer” as identities. A Fall 2014 student made this educational comic, using Pixton. If the speech bubbles are too small to read on the page, you can click on each image for a … Continue reading Two Fall […]
WHAT IS READER-FRIENDLY WRITING? While you’re in school, most of your writing is directed towards a teacher who is obligated to read it. But after college, most of your writing … Continue reading I’ve been telling my students that writing is a “design art” for a while now, as a way of conveying that rhetorically […]
Giving students the opportunity to write for online publication can help them think seriously about audience and purpose. One optionĀ is to ask students to write articles for a web site that welcomes user-submitted content designed to meet a particular goal. WikiHow One example is WikiHow.com, which is a popular and active site that features articles […]
For better or for worse, television is an integral part of American society. Drawing in millions of Americans day and night, people become invested in specific television series, often following the development of characters throughout the duration of a program’s air time. With the development of premium cable networks, many have turned from major basic […]
Here are the Learning Units & Goals for my Storytelling through New Media class, as of January 2015. Return to the Learning Goals page for links to my Writing & … Continue reading Trying to decide whether to use a blog to supplement or replace a course management system like D2L? These slides will help […]
Web site by Nate (WRTG 3020 – Fall 2012) Women of Music When looking for a subject for creating a text-based project for a class revolving around the rhetoric of gender & sexuality, women in music was an obvious choice for me. The industry is filled with sex driven advertisements, gender stereotypes, and media pressure […]
(Re-posted from: http://www.keepwriting.net/prompts.htm) These prompts are intended to help inspire your creativity. Try your hand at any one of them or use them as quick ten minute writing exercises. More exercises will be added as time goes by, so please check this page periodically – the most recent prompts appear at the top. Remember what […]
Shelby’s “turning point” story in the form of an autobio comic Term: WRTG 3090 – Spring 2015 Tools: Hand drawn and inked in Photoshop Continue reading A “turning point” graphic memoir by Rachel N. Term: WRTG 3090 – Spring 2015 Tools: Composed in Comic Life Continue reading A “metaphorical” autobio comic by Sean Term: WRTG […]
For most video projects, you will need to be able to make basic edits to videos you download or create, including cropping and trimming selections, adding title cards and transitions, … Continue reading PSA video by Wylie (WRTG 3020 – Fall 2012) Tools/Approaches: images, audio clips, iMovie I’ve created this piece for both Christians and […]
Common Teaching Issue: Doing peer review with Word files results in too many separate copies of each draft Anyone who has asked students to do peer review by downloading copies … Continue reading Before you do peer reviews in my class, I want to encourage you to think about the rhetorical purpose of peer review […]
ABOUT MIND MAPS Mind maps are incredibly helpful as planning tools, but you can also use them to present concepts to an audience. Mind maps typically follow a hierarchical structure, … Continue reading
Every writer has heard the phrase “show, don’t tell,” but figuring out exactly what that means can take a while. This guide provides a strategy for deciding what to show … Continue reading Working on a project that will include audio voiceover? Here’s how to estimate how long the voiceover will be, based on the […]
