Collecting Audio-Visual Data, Composing Audio-Visual Arguments
A big part of my research is the collection and use of audio-visual (AV) qualitative data. I use video cameras and microphones to gather information about participants and their experiences, and I use...
View ArticleHacking Composition with Prezi
Welcome to the DRC’s First Hack Series! Over the next two weeks, we’ll be exploring the use of online software in a composition classroom. This four-post series, developed and composed by Dr. Paulina...
View ArticleStep One: Enter the Canvas
As the students’ anticipation for this project came to a boiling point, we started off on a journey that took them through a multimodal world that they had not seen yet….Well, it wasn’t that poetic,...
View ArticleStep Two: Practice makes perfect balance
This week was focused equally between Prezi exercises and peer reviews of paper drafts. So far, my approach is to allow them to compose the paper in a document first and then put the text into Prezi....
View ArticleStep Three: Twist, turn, and be marry!
We began the week with the last peer review on a draft written in a word document. This one was rather extensive to make sure that there was a thesis, evidence, and explanations, so it took most of the...
View ArticleStep Four: Are we there yet?
After that, we had five class periods before the Prezi was due. In each class, we spent time working on the Prezi and answering questions. We also used a peer review focused on the format, as well as a...
View ArticleWatson Session A.13: Future Digital Histories: What’s (Been) the Matter with...
Presenters: Brett Keegan (Syracuse University), Michael Black (University of Massachusetts-Lowell), Estee Beck (University of Texas-Arlington), and Rebecca Petitti (University of...
View ArticleTeaching with Wikipedia: A Webinar on Critical Approaches to Wikipedia-based...
Photo of Wiki Education Brochures from Wikimedia Commons On November 08th, “Wikipedia-based Education” teaching circle at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) organized a Zoom webinar on teaching...
View ArticleDigital Sharing and Mental Health: Toward Awareness
Universities are grappling with a mental health crisis that is not disconnected from digital developments (Degges-White and Borzumato-Gainey 239). Acknowledging mental health in digital communities can...
View ArticleIntroduction to Jianfen Chen (陈剑芬）
I understand digital rhetoric as a creative extension of traditional Aristotelian rhetoric thanks to digital technologies, but with more heuristic and persuasive powers given to the three canons of...
View ArticleTheorizing Blogwork in First-Year Composition
Mina (2019) proposes that a critical theory of technology in writing instruction must supply a framework within which users work and function, demonstrating that technology is always value-laden as...
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