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Category Archives: Web Resources for Teachers
Digital storytelling resources for teachers
The links below are of particular interest to those who teach digital storytelling, rather than those in the process of learning to compose them, although some sites cover both. For …
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Writing as a design art
I’ve been telling my students that writing is a “design art” for a while now, as a way of conveying that rhetorically effective writing is about more than stringing words …
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Writing Spaces: Web Writing Style Guide
Do you ask your students to write for the web? Do you post course materials on the web? If so, you might want to check out the new Web Writing …
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A glimpse into the composition skills of our future students
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 …
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Resources on visual rhetoric
WEB SITES Viz: Visual Rhetoric -Visual Culture - Visual Pedagogy The award-winning digital publication viz. is committed to the intersections of Rhetoric and visual culture. In keeping with its mission …
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Andrea Lunsford on digital literacy
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 …
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A few of the news feeds I follow through Facebook
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 …
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Digital literacy articles recently shared on our Facebook group
I thought those of you who aren’t on our PWR Digital Composition group on Facebook might like to browse through some of the articles members have recently shared on the …
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Fair Use of Digital Media in Student Work
If your students use digital media objects they found online in any of their course projects, you might want to give them this handout, which will help them understand the …
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Visual representation of the writing process
(Originally posted on the blog for my section of WRTG 3035: Technical Communication and Design.) I just came across yet another infographic that’s relevant to our class. This one uses …
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Bill Cope on digital literay and the changing dynamics of learning
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 …
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Technology in Plain English
From the CommonCraft channel on YouTube: Blogs in Plain English Twitter in Plain English Wikis in Plain English RSS in Plain English (how to subscribe to blogs using RSS readers)
New collection of resources on “Learning through Digital Media”
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): …
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Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade
Dave Underwood just sent me this very timely article from a NY Times blog. I highly recommend it! Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade
Re-articulating the Mission and Work of Writing Programs with Digital Video
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 …
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