Image via Paula Miller. From left to right: Jenae Cohn, Naomi Silver, Matthew Vetter, Paula Miller, Laura Gonzales, Merideth Garcia, Brenta Blevins, Anne Gere. Not pictured: Lindsey Harding The 2014-15 academic year ushered in several big changes for the Digital Rhetoric Collaborative! With a major site re-design came an increased focus on ensuring the blog was engaging with the kinds of multiliteracies it heralds. While continuing features like the Webtext-of-the-Month, Wiki Wednesdays, and semester-long Blog Carnivals, new features like DRC Chat on Air, Reflections from the Cloud, and Tool Review Tuesdays were introduced. Each of the 2014-15 DRC fellows have…
Author: Brenta Blevins
Laura Gonzales, Matthew Vetter, Brenta Blevins, Jenae Cohn, Paula M Miller, Lindsey Harding
A Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative fellow in 2013-14 and 2014-15, Brenta Blevins is an Assistant Professor of Writing Studies and Digital Studies at the University of Mary Washington. She completed her PhD in digital rhetoric and composition at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro where her dissertation examined the rhetoric and literacy of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality. She previously worked in the software development industry. Her current research interests include Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality, digital literacy and digital pedagogy, and multiliteracy/multimodality.
“What Is Code?” by Paul Ford is our July 2015 Webtext of the Month. What follows is a list and selection of responses, reactions, and discussions pertaining to “What Is Code?” for students, teachers, and designers to think about digital journalism. Feel free to leave us a comment and share a link to a resource that adds to this conversation. The article is the longest single story the Bloomberg Businessweek magazine has published, 72 print pages of words and code, and 38,000 words and about 100 graphics online. “Bloomberg Businessweek Releases The Code Issue Special Multi-platform Package on Demystifying Code”,…
Happy Wiki Wednesday, everyone! We previously reflected on the DRC Wiki Quest at Computers and Writing 2015 and met two grand prize winners: Stephanie Vie and Alyssa Hillery. This week, meet our final DRC Wiki Quest winner Shelley Rodrigo! We offer congratulations to the three grand prize winners, who completed the steps in the DRC Wiki Quest, and all the other questers who participated in the DRC Wiki Quest and helped collaboratively build the resources of the DRC Wiki. DRC Wiki Quest winner Shelley Rodrigo won as a grand prize a copy of Writing Assessment and the Revolution in Digital Texts and Technology by Michael…
Title: What is Code?| Author: Paul Ford Publication: Bloomberg Businessweek Release date: June 11, 2015 Website: http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ You know the piece is going to be different from the usual fare when the title has a blinking cursor at its end (how do you include a blinking cursor in a citation? ah, yes, through code: What is Code?| ). (function($) { $(function() { setInterval ( function () { $(“.blinking-cursor”).each ( function() { var b=$(this); b.css(“visibility”, (b.css(“visibility”)==”hidden”) ? “visible” : “hidden”); } ) }, 500); }) })(jQuery); Paul Ford’s “What Is Code?” exemplifies the best of webtext capabilities by using a range…