Students in my Spring 2012 section of WRTG 3035: Technical Communication and Design are going to work on a complete redesign of this site for their course project. Our goal will be to turn the site into a resource for all college students who want to develop their digital literacy skills.
I may close the site to members only while it’s under reconstruction, but the new and improved version will definitely be ready by May, 2012, if not sooner. Stay tuned!
Made by Joey Schusler, for the Spring 2011 section of WRTG 2090. See his full portfolio.
This video was made by Alison Rifkin for the Spring 2011 section of WRTG 2090. See her full portfolio.
This video was made by Taylor Meyers for the Spring 2011 section of WRTG 2090. See her full portfolio.
This video was made by Kathryn Goggin for the Spring 2011 section of WRTG 2090. See her full portfolio.
This video was made by Hannah Tysor for the Spring 2011 section of WRTG 2090. See her full portfolio.
Video made by Ember Patterson for the Spring 2011 section of WRTG 2090. See her full portfolio.
Well done and provocative:
Interesting but rather time consuming way to make a point!
You can find a variety of other videos that address copyright and fair use issues on the “Free Culture Videos” Tumblr blog.
Those newfangled paper-bound books can be very tricky….
I just came across this presentation while looking for more cool things to do with EverNote. EverNote is quite possibly the most handy digital tool I’ve ever used, and I frequently recommend it to students, but until I saw this presentation, I hadn’t thought about how useful it would be to students who are working on research projects. The fact that you can share notebooks with other users makes it even more appealing.
Somewhat tangential comment: “transliteracy” is an interesting choice of terms, but I suspect it would be initially misleading to people who are into gender studies, as the “trans” evokes the word “transgender.”
I came across this image a while ago and saved it on my computer, but I forgot to record where I found it, so I didn’t post it here. And then I forgot about it.
I just came across it again, so this time I’m including a link to the source. It’s kind of a nice visual representation of the various one-way and two-way relationships that happen between information, media, and participants in digital environments.
I just saw this on Elise’s blog and thought I’d share it here. The video gives a great demonstration of how you can collaborate with others on a project, no matter where they are. But more than that, it shows that Google Docs is has some pretty nifty animation options that I didn’t know about!
Google Demo Slam: Epic Docs Animation
This short promo for Steven Johnson’s book, Where Good Ideas Come From: the Natural History of Innovation, effectively illustrates some of the ways the web can help to generate good ideas by connecting us with others in ways that were never before possible.
You can see longer versions of Johnson’s talks here: