Discord: Gaming App to Rhetoric Class
By: Nidia Alonso, Alexis Denton, Cory Godin, Merissa Hillary, Chandan Puri, and Kristin Ravel Note on the shared…
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Virtual Makerspace Fabrication through Collaborative Pedagogy in a Two-Year College (2/2)
As discussed in the article “Makerspaces and Writing Ecosystems in a Two Year College (1/2),” the maker movement…
Makerspaces and Writing Ecosystems in a Two-Year College (1/2)
The 2016 Blog Carnival of Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative presented reflections on the emergent maker movement and its…
Making, Inventing, and Designing : Review of LittleBits Robot Kits
What is LittleBits Robot? LittleBits are small pieces of modules and circuits that can be combined together with…
Webflow: A Program for Developing Coding Literacy
In this review, I discuss a visual web design tool called Webflow and argue that this design tool,…
ATLAS.ti: Desktop and Cloud-based Coding Software
ATLAS.ti offers various qualitative data analysis (QDA) solutions for researchers and students working with qualitative data. In this…
Digital Rhetoric, Surveillance Studies, & Health: Becoming Student Advocates and Promoting Critical Digital Literacy Practices at Two Campus Centers
Introducing Our Class: Digital Rhetoric in Health & Medicine In the Fall of 2017, the nine of us…
The rhetoric and technology of collaboration: How digital technologies transform our collaborative work and pedagogy
Background In this collection, four graduate scholars investigate a suite of collaborative technologies, namely join.me, Facebook Messenger, Scalar,…
WebEx: Flexible video conferencing for large-group collaboration
This tool is a video conferencing platform by CISCO. It is a flexible platform that operates on a…
Facebook Messenger: Distraction or collaborative tool?
As Facebook’s designated chat application, Facebook Messenger garnered 1.2 billion active users in April 2017, adding 200 million…
Scalar: Open-source authoring for born-digital scholarship
Scalar is defined as an open source publishing platform designed to make born-digital scholarship easy for authors (Scalar).…
join.me: A collaborative mainstay in industry with potential uses in transformative, ecologically minded collaborations
join.me is an online meeting platform that provides desktop and mobile conferencing and screencasting abilities (PC Magazine, 2017).…
Rhetoricity Roundtable Discussion: An Introduction and Reflection
During the 2016 Computers & Writing Conference, the DRC participated in a roundtable discussion with Eric Detweiler for…
Digital Lesson Plans: Composing and Analyzing Multimodal Persuasive Arguments
Take a look at the next installment in our Digital Lesson Plan series! In this post, Janine Butler shares an assignment…
Making Space for Making Space: Writing Instruction, Infrastructure, and Multiliteracies
The idea for Making Space: Writing Instruction, Infrastructure, and Multiliteracies began at the 2012 Computers and Writing Conference…
Digital Lesson Plans: Teaching Neo-Aristotelian Criticism with #ThanksObama
Here at the DRC, we are introducing a new series of posts featuring Digital Lesson Plans. The aim of…