In the process of working with workshop footage, we started to develop a style for creating video content. In true McLuhanian fashion, our developing style is starting to change the way we think about, plan, and capture events, workshops, and speakers. So stay tuned for more videos.
Entries from April 30th, 2010
Gaming and Pedagogy- A brief bibliography
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As part of our research, the Games Group started a working bibliography for our group this year; we hope to add to it each semester to compile a resource for the DWRL. Working Bibliographies Games & Pedagogy Colby, Rebekah Shultz and Richard Colby. “A Pedagogy of Play Integrating Computer Games into the Writing Classroom.” Computers [...]
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Persuasive Games
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This video discusses my current thoughts on my research on persuasive games that I’ve been doing for the DWRL’s Games Project, formerly the Rhetorical Peaks Project. Persuasive Games from DWRL on Vimeo.
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Mapping Cite to Site
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ASSIGNMENT 4: Mapping Cite to Site Creator: Jeremy Dean Overview This assignment asks students to exercise rhetorical analysis both with texts and places. They also create a placemark in Google Earth using Google Spreadsheet Mapper 2.0. Background Students are introduced to Google Earth progressively over the course of the semester and given opportunities to explore [...]
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Wikitude
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At the suggestion of DWRL colleague Scott Nelson, project leader Jeremy Dean created placemark bubbles related to University architecture in the augmented reality program, Wikitude, so that his students could view landmarks on a UT campus tour via their smart phones. Here, RHE 309 K students look at information about the UT Tower through their [...]
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DWRL Speaker Series
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The DWRL’s Speaker Series has brought some of the most prominent figures in digital writing to The University of Texas at Austin. Greg Ulmer, Victor Vitanza, and Cynthia Haynes have all joined us for great talks in recent years. This year, we hosted two extremely engaging speakers. In the fall, Cynthia Selfe talked about the [...]
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Open Lab
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Open Lab doesn’t just mean free-play (although it does mean that). It also means that we’re opening ourselves up to forging new relationships.
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Defining Visual Literacy
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What is our current definition of visual literacy? How do we compare visual to written arguments? Why do we study visual culture? The Visual Rhetoric Project has responded to questions like these with two main areas of research for 2009-2010: first, with a quantitative research study in conjunction with the Blanton Art Museum, the New Media [...]
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Currents in Electronic Literacy
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Currents in Electronic Literacy is an online journal published annually by the DWRL which strives to promote, interrogate, and critique the discourse of electronic literacy by reviewing and assessing the present state of the field. We define electronic literacy widely: literature, rhetoric and composition, languages (English, foreign, and ESL), communications, media studies, education, and pedagogy. [...]
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How Not To Make a Professional Video
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When you sit down to write a traditional academic paper, you can bracket out your daily life. Your style is determined for you (usually by MLA or Chicago), and it doesn’t matter if you get up to feed the cat, do some laundry, or make a cup of tea. In print, it doesn’t matter if sit down to write in your comfy writing pants (that just happen to have, for example, an elastic waistband and a wild mushroom print). All that will be edited out of the printed pages.
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