Writing and Learning in a Digital Age
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Writing and Learning in a Digital Age
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Writing and Learning in a Digital Age
Digital technologies have changed the processes, spaces, and products of writing and learning.
Digital media allow for the increased integration of images and audio into texts.
Networked connectivity presents new rhetorical situations and potentially global audiences for communicating.
An overabundance of (mis)information on the Web requires increasingly sophisticated research skills.
Theories of Rhetoric and Writing Process Can Be (Somewhat) Transferable Across Media.
Media Inquiry Options
• Live Presentation (possibly with PowerPoint)• Audio PSA, audio documentary, or audio essay
(audacity)• Video PSA (iMovie; Moviemaker)• Website or blog (using wix.com or
wordpress.com)
Media Iniquiry Project
• Transform the argument made in a print paper into another form of media.• Reflect about the unique affordances and
limitations of differing modalities of communication (alphabetic, visual, oral,
gestural)
Teaching Media Inquiry I
• Focus on transferable concepts of rhetoric and process
• Scaffold the assignment (proposal, multiple drafts) and build in reflection throughout
• Give a focused assignment (and then let students negotiate options)
Teaching Media Inquiry II
• Develop evaluative criteria collaboratively with students (by rhetorically analyzing sample texts).
• Provide or arrange for an in-class workshop about any required technologies (30-50 minutes).
• Address issues of “Fair Use” and Copyright
Contact:
Jason Palmeri (Bac 366; [email protected])
Web Resources:http://miami111workshop.wordpress.com/http://dwcblog.wordpress.com
