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Category Archives: Teaching Ideas
Use PDF annotation tools to teach academic reading
Common Teaching Issue: Students could use more help reading academic articles I notice this problem in two ways: in how students respond to articles as assigned readings and in how …
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Tips on Teaching Digital Storytelling Projects
Here are a few tips for educators who are thinking of offering digital storytelling as an option for student projects.
Use Google Docs for peer reviews
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 …
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Use comment bubbles for self-evaluation
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 …
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A few rhetorical considerations for posting course materials online
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. …
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One approach to defining digital literacy
I thought a few of you might find it helpful to see one approach to defining digital literacy in the context of writing instruction. Below you’ll find my description of …
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Helping students explore digital literacy
To get students talking about digital literacy, you might assign one or both of these Frontline videos: Growing Up Online and Digital Nation.
Tips for building a course web site
UPDATE: See this new post, which expands on some of these suggestions: Rhetorical considerations for online course materials NOTE: These tips are under development, but I’m posting what I have …
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DMAC “Concept in 60″ videos
Damian Doyle and I attended this summer’s Digital Media and Composition Institute (DMAC) at Ohio State University, where we got to play around with lots of digital tools and toys. …
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Working definition of digital literacy for college students
The description below is from my syllabus for the first-year writing courses I taught at CU Boulder in the Spring and Fall of 2010. I asked students to focus specifically …
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Ideas for using Google Docs
(adapted from a handout I used in the Teaching in Computer Labs workshop in August 2010) Google Docs is a free, web-based alternative to Microsoft Office. All you need to …
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Reflection on multimodal projects from Spring 2010
In my Spring 2010 sections of WRTG 3020: Rhetoric of Gender and Sexuality, I gave students the option to develop their final projects using whatever mode of delivery seemed appropriate …
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First-year writing course description
This is my course description for Spring 2010: WRTG 1150: First-Year Writing and Rhetoric is designed to introduce you to a number of concepts and skills you will use throughout …
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