Category Archives: TEACHING DIGITAL WRITING

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 & …

Trying to decide whether to use a blog to supplement or replace a course management system like D2L? These slides will help you determine if a blog is right for …

Theory and Practice Advanced Thinking in Digital Storytelling: Knowing ‘Why’ Seven Elements of Effective Digital Stories Also see my help page on this site: Narrative techniques for digital storytelling Project …

To view some examples of digital writing assignments I’ve used over the past five or six years, browse through the ASSIGNMENTS ARCHIVE category.

Below are a few of my presentations that might be of interest to anyone who teaches writing at the college level. The first one focuses more heavily on providing a …

The nature of literacy — of what it means to “read” and to “write” — have fundamentally changed in response to the emergence of digital tools and environments, which provide …

WRTG 3020 LEARNING GOALS MENU Rhetorical Awareness Digital Literacies Composing Processes [ About my Learning Goals ] A KEY GOAL Developing rhetorical awareness is a learning goal for this class …

WRTG 3020 LEARNING GOALS MENU Rhetorical Awareness Digital Literacies Composing Processes [ About my Learning Goals ] WRITING AS A PROCESS The third major area of learning goals for our …

WRTG 3020 LEARNING GOALS MENU Rhetorical Awareness Digital Literacies Composing Processes [ About my Learning Goals ] A GOAL FOR ALL STUDENTS One of CU Boulder’s goals, as outlined in …

The gallery below shows the most recent entries on on my Share Your Digital Literacy Stories Vimeo channel. For more info on my digital literacy interviews, scroll down below the …

Here are a few tips for educators who are thinking of offering digital storytelling as an option for student projects.

Common Teaching Issue: Students sometimes don’t follow writing advice Every writing instructor knows the frustration of reading a student’s final paper and realizing that the student has not incorporated the …

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 …

Wondering what kind of composition skills today’s grade school kids will be bringing with them to college? Check out the winners of the International Student Media Festival. See the 2010 …

I originally created this bibliography for my colleagues in the PWR at CU Boulder, to help them explore the scholarship and pedagogy that supports digital composition. The bibliography below is …

I occasionally come across people who didn’t know you could receive news feeds through Facebook, so I put together this list of some of the sources of news I receive …

In this post, I offer a few suggestions to help you apply rhetorical principles to the design of online course materials, whether you use D2L or an external web site. …

Some of you may already be familiar with the work of Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis with regard to multiliteracies and the changing nature of teaching and learning. (See their …

To get students talking about digital literacy, you might assign one or both of these Frontline videos: Growing Up Online and Digital Nation.

From the CommonCraft channel on YouTube: Blogs in Plain English [youtube NN2I1pWXjXI] Twitter in Plain English [youtube ddO9idmax0o] Wikis in Plain English [youtube dnL00TdmLY] RSS in Plain English (how to …

Interesting new collection of resources relevant to anyone teaching with and through digital media: Learning Through Digital Media Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy From the site intro (by Trebor Scholz): …

NOTE: Originally posted on the PWR Teaching with Technology blog in October of 2011. I thought a few of you might find it helpful to see one approach to defining …

Interesting article on the value of using video as a way to document and promote the work of a writing program: “Re-articulating the Mission and Work of Writing Programs with …

Below are a few screencasts that might be helpful to those of you who are using WordPress.com blogs. For more handouts and screeencasts, see this new page under the Resources …

Below is a small selection of video projects that demonstrate some of the possibilities of digital composition, and, in a few cases, make commentary on it. Consider what would be …