Review by Abigail Sheg (@ag_scheg) Presiding Zsuzsanna Palmer, Old Dominion University, VA Panelists Sarah Guth, State University of New York Global Center Alexander Hartwiger, Framingham State University Zsuzsanna Palmer, Old Dominion University This panel provided explanation and insight into international collaborative classes across disciplines. The organization of this electronic roundtable was as follows: the speakers gave introductory talks about their international collaborative classrooms and initiatives. Then, each speaker went to a large television surrounding the perimeter of the room and groups of participants rotated to televisions interacting more closely with the speaker about their project and collaboration in general. Zsuzsanna…
Author: Laura Gonzales
Laura Gonzales is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Studies at the University of Texas, El Paso. Her research focuses on highlighting the benefits of linguistic diversity in professional and academic spaces.
Happy New Year from the DRC! As you continue making plans and setting goals for the new year, the DRC invites you to keep us in mind. We are working to expand the conferences represented on the DRC site, and are seeking reviewers willing to share their conference experiences with us. If you are attending a conference or conference session related to digital rhetoric and/or digital humanities and you would like to publish a review on the DRC site, please email DRC fellow Laura (drcfellows@umich.edu) or tweet at us (@SweetlandDRC or @gonzlaur). Let us know the following: What conference will…
By Timothy Briggs, Laura Gonzales, Alexandra Hidalgo, Casey Miles, and Crystal VanKooten Alexandra Hidalgo (Michigan State University), co-panelist For WIDE-EMU, I thought it would be fun to ask participants to make short on-the-spot documentaries about the topics the conference was exploring. I was interested in seeing if we could actually accomplish such a feat in 80 minutes. Here is the description that fellow panelist, Casey Miles, and myself posted, via a Google doc, to the conference site: “A Video Making Extravaganza Answering the Question “What Is Free?” “In this “Make” presentation, we will make 3-5 minute videos exploring answers to…
I like to see the big picture. I’m notorious for trying to put seemingly unrelated people, concepts, and ideas into conversation, and this is exactly how I became interested in digital rhetoric. My background teaching and researching composition helped me see how various aspects of our discipline are intrinsically related. For me, conversations about students became conversations about languages, and discussions about writing resulted in discussions about other technologies. Currently, I’m talking to multilingual students about the ways we may use multimodality to ease our anxieties about writing in and beyond composition courses. At the DRC, I’m helping foster conversations…