Author: Sweetland DRC

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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Review by Douglas Eyman The interactive installations session continues the effort to showcase projects that have more interactive or artistic elements that have been taking place at past C & W conferences. In 2009, the “Digital Art and Narratives Exhibit” organized by Jonathan Alexander and Jacqueline Rhodes featured multi-modal and multi-media installations that drew on the sense of “installation” as it is enacted in art galleries and public spaces; since then, the installations at C & W have shifted more toward the genre of the digital poster — in general developed along more academic than artistic approaches (and at the…

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Review by Brent Simoneaux Panelists Cheryl Ball, Illinois State University Keon Pettiway, East Carolina University Marc Russo, North Carolina State University Jennifer Sheppard, New Mexico State University Town Hall 3 brought together diverse perspectives from new media and design studies, all focused on the following question: What is the role of design in new media composition? Offering different perspectives on this question, the participants explored the importance of critical engagement with technologies in order to enact effective new media composition. Cheryl Ball (Illinois State University) focused on the design of scholarly new media compositions. In particular, Ball shared the Seven…

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