Tool Review Tuesday: Screencast-o-matic
What Does this Tool Do? Screencastomatic is video and audio screen capture software. The online version that works…
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Striking a Spark
Welcome back to Dr. Elizabeth Davis’s Hack and Yack Series. In Technologies of Wonder, Susan Delagrange argues…
Thinking About Connections: Portfolios, Research, and the Digital
Welcome to the DRC’s latest Hack and Yack Series. Over the next two weeks, Dr. Elizabeth Davis will…
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…
Immersive Storytelling
Over the past two weeks, we explored the big ideas behind digital reading and ebooks, and have looked…
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…