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!
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:
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!
This site will provide resources for college students who use digital tools for school, work, and play.
The site was previously used to host class blogs for Amy Goodloe's WRTG 1150 and WRTG 2090 classes at CU Boulder, but those blogs are no longer available. You can find some featured student work from those classes here on the main blog.