writing and learning in a digital age
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Writing and Learning in a Digital Age
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Digital technologies have changed the processes, spaces, and products of writing and learning.
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Digital media allow for the increased integration of images and audio into texts.
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Networked connectivity presents new rhetorical situations and potentially global audiences for communicating.
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An overabundance of (mis)information on the Web requires increasingly sophisticated research skills.
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Theories of Rhetoric and Writing Process Can Be (Somewhat) Transferable Across Media.
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Media Inquiry Options
• Live Presentation (possibly with PowerPoint)• Audio PSA, audio documentary, or audio essay
(audacity)• Video PSA (iMovie; Moviemaker)• Website or blog (using wix.com or
wordpress.com)
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Media Iniquiry Project
• Transform the argument made in a print paper into another form of media.• Reflect about the unique affordances and
limitations of differing modalities of communication (alphabetic, visual, oral,
gestural)
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Teaching Media Inquiry I
• Focus on transferable concepts of rhetoric and process
• Scaffold the assignment (proposal, multiple drafts) and build in reflection throughout
• Give a focused assignment (and then let students negotiate options)
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Teaching Media Inquiry II
• Develop evaluative criteria collaboratively with students (by rhetorically analyzing sample texts).
• Provide or arrange for an in-class workshop about any required technologies (30-50 minutes).
• Address issues of “Fair Use” and Copyright
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Contact:
Jason Palmeri (Bac 366; [email protected])
Web Resources:http://miami111workshop.wordpress.com/http://dwcblog.wordpress.com