What is it? Blogs are a collection of posts, often multimodal, published collectively online. A blog can have a single author, or many, and can be narrow or broad in the topics it covers, but nearly all blogs allow – and indeed, encourage – readers to contribute comments on the materials they contain. What have people said about it? Writing scholars often point to blogs as an excellent way to push students towards conscious reflection about rhetorical decisions and the writing process. In her article “Metaspace: Meatspace and Blogging Intersect,” rhetoric and composition scholar Elizabeth Kleinfeld shares that “a majority…
Author: Becca Tarsa
What is it? Remediation is the re-presentation of material in one medium through another. In the context of the classroom, remediation assignments ask students to take a text in one form (either their own or by someone else) and transform it into another medium, preserving the essential features of the original while adapting it to the affordances and audience of the new form. What have people said about it? Remediation is often cited as one of the defining characteristics of new digital media (Bolter and Grusin). For this reason, many scholars in composition and rhetoric advocate teaching remediation as part…
Welcome to the first post in the DRC’s [Digital Lessons] series! The idea of this series is to introduce different categories or strategies for teaching writing with digital resources, as well as provide a practical snapshot of how others have applied them in their work. W encourage you to leave your own stories and experiences in the comments! Seeing how others have applied digital techniques in the classroom helps expand the imagined range of possibilities for all of us, and makes the idea of working in new angles and tools more exciting and less daunting. If you have questions about…
Title: Device 6 Publisher: Simgo Publication date: October 2013 Official Website: http://simogo.com/games/device6/ Device 6 is an iOS game that blends text with images, gameplay with the novella form, to create something new. It requires you to both read closely and look closely to solve the many puzzles embedded in its surreal, thriller narrative. Device 6 is right on the line between game and text, incorporating words into the motion of the narrative in ways I’d never seen before – for example, when the text on the screen scrolls to the right, it indicates that your main character, Anna, is moving…