The Computers and Writing Memorabilia Project: Mining the Past and Visualizing the Arc of our Discipline
What were early digital rhetoricians thinking about more than two decades ago? What did they present on, and…
Browsing: Conversations
Why a Wiki?
Over the past couple of weeks, the DRC fellows have been discussing the #DRCwiki they are starting to…
Rhetmap as personal development, field exploration, and history
Last month I released an OCR edition of the Modern Language Association Job Information List (MLA JIL). After…
Reading Goes Digital – 6 Ways Technology Enhances Reading Practices
Over the past several years, we at Subtext have talked to and observed teachers in schools at all…
Winter Blog Carnival Call for Posts: “Small Potent Gestures” that Shape our History
This year, the DRC Fellows have been working together to build out the DRC Wiki. It has been…
Immersive Storytelling
Over the past two weeks, we explored the big ideas behind digital reading and ebooks, and have looked…
Enhancing our eBook Experiences
Our post last week looked up an example of a basic ebook, one that is essentially a PDF…
Digging into a Good (e)Book
As mentioned in our introduction to this series of blog posts, we are heading into the world of…
Read Like a (Digital) Writer
By now — in fact, right now — there is a very good chance that you are reading…
From Digital Reading to Digital Writing: a Hack/Yack Series by Troy Hicks
Welcome to the DRC’s second Hack/Yack Series. Over the next two weeks, Troy Hicks, Associate Professor of English…
Step Four: Are we there yet?
After that, we had five class periods before the Prezi was due. In each class, we spent time…
Step Three: Twist, turn, and be merry!
We began the week with the last peer review on a draft written in a word document. This…
Step Two: Practice makes perfect balance
This week was focused equally between Prezi exercises and peer reviews of paper drafts. So far, my approach…
Step One: Enter the Canvas
As the students’ anticipation for this project came to a boiling point, we started off on a journey…
Hacking Composition with Prezi
Welcome to the DRC’s First Hack Series! Over the next two weeks, we’ll be exploring the use of…
Crowdsourcing Disciplinary Data: the process of building the Writing Studies Tree
by Benjamin Miller, Amanda Licastro, and Jill Belli We are the principal designers of the Writing Studies…