Practitioner Stories
I’ve always been a fan of Jim Ridolfo’s article on rhetorical delivery via the practitioner story of Maggie, a feminist activist who was working on ...
Digital Scrap 3: Tinkering with Mobile Devices
As a kind of experiment, I wanted to see what kinds of texts I could make with my phone, an iPhone 6 whatever, using the iMovie mobile app and the Vimeo app. Be...
Digital Scrap 2: Videomaking as Layered Literacy
I’ve been a fan of Daniel Anderson‘s videos for years. They’re really interesting examples of multiple issues coming together: layered literac...
WAC and TFT: Does Theory Need Verification?
In a couple of earlier posts (intro here and follow-up here), I introduced and discussed a version of a TFT course I’m developing keyed to introducing stu...
Digital Scrap 1: Newhive
I was introduced to NewHive by Jason Luther in his introduction as a DRC Fellow. It’s an interesting platform with many more possibilities than I’ve...
The Social Web During Hurricane Matthew
Now that everyone has stopped talking about Hurricane Matthew in Charleston, I feel like I can make this observation. But first, a little background: I’m ...
WAC and TFT: A Critical Incident
[…] despite these impediments, we found that students actively make use of the prior knowledge and practice they do have, and in three ways: […] 3. ...
Digital Reading and Lanham’s Looking
In my digital rhetoric course this morning I asked students to build on our ongoing conversations about genre and the rhetorical situation, writing and technolo...
Writing without deadlines
One of the positives of my grad school experience was that I always had (almost too much) advice on the pitfalls ahead and strategies for coming out nearly-unsc...
WAC and TFT
I started teaching a FYW course at CofC keyed to WAC today; the course is called Interdisciplinary Composition. In the course, students examine how disciplines ...