Resources

In need of online resources for teaching digital writing?  Want students to create and compose digitally, but aren’t sure where to send them or what to recommend they use?  Visit Troy Hicks’s companion wiki page for his books, The Digital Writing Workshop and Crafting Digital Writing, and reference or add to a collection of links to various websites and apps that are applicable for a wide variety of digital writing.

The work on this wiki is licensed under an Attribution, Non-Commerical, Share-Alike Creative Commons license.

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Want to present your work at a conference, but not sure where to find the CFP or when it’s due?  Want to learn about new or lesser-known conferences related to rhetoric or composition studies?  Want to simplify your conference planning process for 2012-13?

If so, please visit the CiRC website: Conferences in Rhetoric and Composition, created by Estee Beck of Bowling Green State University.  The site provides basic information about conferences in the field of Rhet/Comp and provides links to conference CFPs and websites.  The site includes a calendar feature to see venues and maps, and you can download the calendar entries into your Google Calendar.  Also included is a submissions tab where you can submit other conference information or data to the site.

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Michael Day is compiling this online archive of memorabilia related to the annual Computers & Writing Conference.  The materials date from 1991 to the present and include conference programs, t-shirts, buttons, bags, conference badges, and more!

The archive is still under construction, so if you have items to contribute or would like to help out with the project, please send an email to mday@niu.edu.

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Lisa Ede has taught at Oregon State University since 1980 and has been teaching the course “Language, Technology, and Culture” for the last five years.  Included here for reference is Dr. Ede’s course syllabus, along with the assignment for the online research project and several student project examples.  These student projects give information about various online resources including The Oatmeal, Fanfiction.net, and Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning.

Click the links below to view the materials.

Language, Technology, and Culture course syllabus
Online Research Project

Research Project – The Oatmeal by Natalie Averill
Research Project – LibraryThing by Sarah Beattie
Research Project – Fanfiction.net by Amy Edwards
Research Project – Spotlight on Digital Media by Amber Houck
Research Project – Ravelry by Justene Malosh
Research Project – Penny Arcade by Jessie McCartney
Research Project – Hit Record by Ingrid Ockert
Research Project – Sporcle by Melissa Pope

All materials included here are licensed under a Creative Commons BY NC SA 3.0 license.

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Jim Ridolfo has created this Rhet Map on which you can view doctoral programs in Rhetoric and Composition across the USA by location and access links to their websites.

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UT-Austin’s Digital Writing and Research Lab’s newly re-designed lesson plan library is a frequently updated archive of innovative approaches to using technology in the classroom (as well as lesson plans adaptable for tech-free classrooms). The site continues to grow, and they welcome contributions from instructors at all levels of experience.  Please visit the site and comment on your experiences if you use the plans.

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• Have you found a new piece of software that you’re dying to share with others?
• Are you looking for perspectives on the latest thinking about some aspect of digital rhetoric?
• Do you have a successful teaching strategy or syllabus to share with colleagues?
• Have you just read a book or found a website that everyone should know about?

DRC Resources is the place to post and look for information, breaking news, and teaching ideas that are important to scholars and teachers in digital rhetoric.  Use it to ask questions, share information, and test out new ideas.

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