“Maps are Cool”: Investigating the Potentials for Map-Making in Multimodal Pedagogies
Let’s just get this out of the way. I love maps. My fascination with maps started young, with…
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Session G-8: Multimodal Composing Practices
Presenters: Elizabeth Chamberlain, James Ottoson, Rochelle (Shelley) Rodrigo, Teresa (Reese) Davis During “Multimodal Composing Practices,” two questions about…
Critical Design Rhetorics of Digital Democracy: A Course Design for Informed Dissent and Design Advocacy
Image created by Matthew V. Jacobson Introduction A few months ago, I gave myself a challenge: design a…
C&W 18 Review: “Multimodal Hip-Hop and Transforming Writing Studies”
Session B8: “Multimodal Hip-Hop and Transforming Writing Studies” Presenters: Laquana Cooke, Regina Duthely, and Todd Craig Review by…
Maker Session F9—Academic Activists: Pro-Immigrant Radical Feminist Praxis in Dangerous Times
Presenters: Christina V Cedillo, University of Houston-Clear Lake Ana Milena Ribero, Oregon State University Sonia C. Arellano, University…
Wrapping Up our Cripping Digital Writing and Technology Blog Carnival
In our CFP for the Cripping Digital Writing and Technology Blog Carnival, we asked writers to explore how…
A Reflection and Step-by-Step Process of Using Open-Source Software to Closed Caption Video
In May, at the 2016 Digital Media and Composition Institute at The Ohio State University, we (participants) were each…
Image Accessibility, Part I: Beyond alt Attributes
The alt attribute is the HTML feature most often associated with accessibility. It’s been around since the HTML…
Remediating Disability: Articulating an Arts-based Pedagogy to Crip The Work of Composition
For the past two years, much of my research has depended upon my collaboration with Elizabeth Horn-Walker, an…
What Can We Learn about Writing and Rhetoric from a Makerspace?
“What do you want to make?” This was the first question that Eric Renn, founder of SoDo MakerSpace…
Remaking Optophones: An Exercise in Maintenance Studies
By: Tiffany Chan, Victoria Murawski, and Jentery Sayers In our lab at the University of Victoria, we are…
Making Across the Curriculum: DIY Culture, Makerspaces, and New Modes of Composition
The D.H. Hill Library Makerspace at North Carolina State University is the result of the growing number of university initiatives…
Precarious Deliberation and Failing Faster: The Value of Glitch in Multimodal Public Writing Assignments
What happens when public writing assignments get too public? This question surfaces each time I teach the final…
Webtext of the Month: Melissa Rogers’ “Making Queer Love: A Kit of Odds and Ends”
Right around the time that we started discussing the theme for our newest blog carnival (Makerspaces and Writing…
Call for Blog Carnival Contributions: Makerspaces and Writing Practices
*Note: There’s still time to participate! The deadline for proposals is extended to February 12, 2016.* Over the…
Using Digital Stories in the Composition Classroom
Welcome to the fourth and final post in our Hack and Yack series on multimodal composition from Amy Braziller…