Wiki editing events, called edit-a-thons, are organized, scheduled opportunities designed to broaden access to and representation in a wiki site. A number of edit-a-thons have been held for the most famous of wiki sites, Wikipedia, which offers a how-to guide for edit-a-thons. The DRC is organizing an edit-a-thon for the DRC Wiki at Computers and Writing 2015! We’ll be sitting at a Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative table throughout the conference and presenting in session E2. If you want hands-on experience editing a wiki or an opportunity to examine classroom wiki activities, consider taking part in the DRC Wiki’s edit-a-thon during the Computers and Writing 2015…
Author: Brenta Blevins
Brenta Blevins
A Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative fellow in 2013-14 and 2014-15, Brenta Blevins is an Assistant Professor of Writing Studies and Digital Studies at the University of Mary Washington. She completed her PhD in digital rhetoric and composition at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro where her dissertation examined the rhetoric and literacy of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality. She previously worked in the software development industry. Her current research interests include Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality, digital literacy and digital pedagogy, and multiliteracy/multimodality.
I’ve been thinking about reflection a lot lately both as a teacher in a portfolio-based classroom, in my e-portfolio research studies, and as a teacher new to the online classroom. In “Portfolio as Genre, Rhetoric as Reflection: Situating Selves, Literacies, and Knowledge,” Kathleen Blake Yancey reflects on the importance of reflection–to herself and to the student portfolio. Yancey identifies the reflection piece, where students talk “about what they’ve learned about their writing, and about their writing practices,” as that work that distinguishes a portfolio from a folder (56). Reflections can involve instability, with reflections sometimes being marked by uncertainty where…
Our previous Reflections from the Trenches in the Cloud addressed instructor and student resources for teaching college writing online. Other campus roles also support online writing instruction. This week, we learn about how librarians work with online college writing and how instructors can work with librarians to support online instruction. To Google and Beyond: Instructors and Librarians as Teaching Partners in Online Writing Classes By Jenny Dale, Coordinator of First-Year Programs, UNC Greensboro University Libraries As an instruction librarian, I have been teaching information literacy skills to English composition students for nearly ten years. I have taught thousands of students in face to…
Previous Reflections from the Trenches in the Cloud have addressed the temporal differences of teaching writing online and online pedagogy, This week, I’d like to review some of the resources I’ve turned to repeatedly in my recent experiences teaching college writing online. As this isn’t a comprehensive set of resources, we invite those of you who’ve been teaching or preparing to teach online to leave in the comments resources you’ve found helpful. Instructor Resources Teaching Writing Online. I’ve mentioned before Scott Warnock’s Teaching Writing Online; it’s worth mentioning again because the book is a great, practical resource with eighteen short chapters…