Happy Wiki Wednesday! This week we’re excited to announce that we’ve streamlined the registration process for becoming a DRC Wiki Editor. We here at the Digital Rhetoric Collaborative have embraced the wiki as a technology to crowd-source publication, curation, and sharing of disciplinary knowledge. Whether you’re an advanced undergraduate student, a graduate student, new PhD, or a seasoned instructor and scholar, we welcome your contributions to the community resource that is the DRC Wiki. We invite you to try out our new registration process and become a DRC Wiki Editor Today! 1. Create a U-M Friend Account here: https://friend.weblogin.umich.edu/friend/. 2. After…
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.
Welcome back to this week’s Reflections from the Trenches in the Cloud, a series about online writing instruction. In the TA program where I work, new TAs observe more experienced instructors as an opportunity to learn about teaching in general and in the program. This fall, when new TAs asked to observe me in my online course, I unexpectedly had to stop and think about the observation process of an online course. Confirming an online observation wasn’t as simple as saying, “Come to room 1205 at 9 AM Friday and we’ll talk after class about what you saw.” Did I show them…
Welcome to “Reflections from the Trenches in the Cloud,” a new series here that continues our December chat on online instruction and e-portfolios and our January webtext on Hacking the Classroom. Over the next couple of months, I’ll be offering fresh reflections on my recent arrival in online writing instruction. Although I had six years of college writing instructional experience, beginning to teach online reminded me of entering the classroom for the first time. In my first semester of classroom teaching, I had to concentrate on everything that needed to happen in the class. I made notes about everything from taking attendance to…
It’s another Wiki Wednesday here at the DRC and we’re introducing a running feature to highlight past DRC Wiki contributors and describe their contributions to our collaborative effort of editing the DRC Wiki. These spotlights bring attention to our editors and to the many different ways to work with the DRC Wiki. This week, we’re spotlighting the recent work of Jack Hennes. Jack Hennes is currently a PhD student in the Rhetoric & Writing program at Michigan State University. Previously, he received an M.A. in Rhetoric & Writing and a B.A. in English Studies, both from St. Cloud State University. His research interests include…