Site makeover coming soon!

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!

BMA Trail Etiquette — video PSA

Made by Joey Schusler, for the Spring 2011 section of WRTG 2090. See his full portfolio.

What do you know about American history?

This video was made by Alison Rifkin for the Spring 2011 section of WRTG 2090. See her full portfolio.

Video analysis of political campaign rhetoric

This video was made by Taylor Meyers for the Spring 2011 section of WRTG 2090. See her full portfolio.

Story of a Rockies fan

This video was made by Kathryn Goggin for the Spring 2011 section of WRTG 2090. See her full portfolio.

Demo commercial for “heavy metal” makeup

This video was made by Hannah Tysor for the Spring 2011 section of WRTG 2090. See her full portfolio.

Web commercial for CU student group for women in journalism

Video made by Ember Patterson for the Spring 2011 section of WRTG 2090. See her full portfolio.

“Digital Strangelove (or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Internet”

Well done and provocative:

A Few Notes on the Rhetoric of Presentations

I developed this presentation for my WRTG 3020 students, but you might find it helpful if you decide to create a stand-alone presentation for the Visual Communication project:

Video: “A Fair(y) Use Tale”

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.

Video: “Medieval Help Desk”

Those newfangled paper-bound books can be very tricky….

Evernote for Transliteracy

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.”

Information Media and Digital Literacy

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.

Information Media and Digital Literacy

Using Google Docs to collaborate on cool animated presentations

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