A Vision for the “New Normal”: Lessons learned from a graduate program in educational technology
As COVID-19 emerged, we in the Master of Arts in Educational Technology (MAET) program at Michigan State University…
Browsing: Conversations
Exercising pedagogical power at the end of the world
Beau Pihlaja | Assistant Professor | Technical Communication and Rhetoric | Department of English | Texas Tech University…
Connect, Listen, and Respect: Lessons from the Pandemic
I started my teaching career in the pandemic, specifically in Fall 2020. As a result, my “new normal”…
Reconsidering One-on-One Writing Conferencing in a Zoom Class
Photo by Dan Barrett on Unsplash “The one-on-one sections were definitely my favorite to do because I was…
Presenting The Sonic Renaissance Ep. 3: Aural Tourism, Or White Presences in Black Sonic Space (Part I)
D’Arcee and Kimberly are back following the declaration of Juneteenth as a Federal holiday…and we have thoughts about…
Call for Blog Carnival Contributions: The “New Normal”
Editors: Sarah Hughes and Nupoor Ranade For our latest Blog Carnival, we are seeking submissions from the computers…
Presenting The Sonic Renaissance – Episode 2: The Nu Blk Sound!
Hot off the presses, DRC Fellows Kimberly Williams and D’Arcee Neal are back with another episode of The…
“Editor’s Outro: Reflecting on the Continued Need for Empathy as Students, Researchers, Teachers, and Human Beings as We Look Ahead to a Post-Pandemic Future”
Acknowledgements We are grateful for each of the contributors of Blog Carnival 18. Thank you for devoting time…
Nobody to Share the Burden: The Importance of Empathy for Single Moms
“I just need 30-minutes to work, and then I’ll play with you.” I tell my 7-year old, as…
Vulnerability is a Topos for Rhetorical Empathy
The Fall 2020 semester saw Composition programs across academic institutions struggling to adjust to the multiplied limitations brought…
Against Digitally Mediated Empathy: Empathy as a Vector for Viral Rhetorics
Like many humanists, when I graduated with my bachelor’s in English, I started searching for a way to…
Radical Empathy and Compassion in FYW
Engaging in social justice work is often explained as heart or love work because of the connection to…
Developing a Rhetorical Empathy in the Post-Pandemic Era: An Advocacy Project
In the early days of the pandemic, fear and uncertainty were felt across many sectors. The material impact…
Stepping into Personas: Empathy as a Mode of Inquiry
From Mette Køstner / Unsplash.ocm When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, I was teaching my Document Design…
We get by with a little help from our friends: Extending empathy throughout, and beyond, the pandemic
In March 2020 we began teaching, learning, and researching from home. We felt unilateral uncertainty and set aside…
Introducing a DRC Podcast: The Sonic Renaissance
This year, after the world loudly and unapologetically announced that “Black Lives Matter,” within our 20-21 cohort, we…