Teach, Research, and Publish with Wikis Happy Wiki Wednesday! This Wiki Wednesday we’d like to look back at some of our recent posts with a buffet-style offering of links to earlier wiki-related entries as this November we celebrate Digital Writing Month and the 20th anniversary of wikis. Participate in the DRC Wiki In our DRC Wiki Call for Participation, we at the Sweetland DRC invite participation in our Digital Rhetoric wiki. Whether you’re an undergraduate or graduate student, a new PhD, or a seasoned research or instructor, we welcome your contributions to our collaboratively-built resource on digital rhetoric, computers and writing/composition, digital humanities, and related topics. Want…
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.
Writing beyond the Classroom Context Welcome back to Wiki Wednesday! Last week, we posted a DRC Wiki Call for Participation to Instructors, Students, and Scholars. This week, we want to spotlight a graduate student’s contribution, made re-using a class project. This is just one example of the many ways that instructors, students, and scholars can respond to the CFP. In response to a DRC Wiki call for key Texts, DRC Fellow Emeritus Becca Tarsa created an entry for Stuart Selber’s Multiliteracies for a Digital Age. She contributed this content after seeing one of the texts listed in our key Texts/Books…
Welcome to another Wiki Wednesday! We’ve been talking recently about public wikis, such as the DRC Wiki, Wikipedia, and other wikis on the web. This week for Wiki Wednesday, we’re talking about a different site for teaching with wikis: a classroom-based site. Your campus’s Learning Management System, such as Blackboard, Canvas, Moodle, Sakai, and others, may support class-based wikis or wiki-like structures. Additionally, class wiki sites can be created online, such as through Wikispaces, PBWorks, or another online site. Rather than writing for the entire world, a class-based wiki provides students the opportunity to write for a known audience: their class. This approach…
Community Community. As I reflect back across my first year working with the Digital Rhetoric Collaborative, the element that stands out most is not any one particular insight into digital rhetoric, technology, new media, or the ways we teach, research, and write about those—although I certainly learned and worked with exciting new developments within each of those areas. The element that stands out most over the last year is community. We all hear the argument that technology is isolating, that the social in social media is disrupted, artificial. But that wasn’t my experience in working with the DRC over the…