Image via Paula Miller. From left to right: Jenae Cohn, Naomi Silver, Matthew Vetter, Paula Miller, Laura Gonzales, Merideth Garcia, Brenta Blevins, Anne Gere. Not pictured: Lindsey Harding The 2014-15 academic year ushered in several big changes for the Digital Rhetoric Collaborative! With a major site re-design came an increased focus on ensuring the blog was engaging with the kinds of multiliteracies it heralds. While continuing features like the Webtext-of-the-Month, Wiki Wednesdays, and semester-long Blog Carnivals, new features like DRC Chat on Air, Reflections from the Cloud, and Tool Review Tuesdays were introduced. Each of the 2014-15 DRC fellows have…
Author: Jenae Cohn
Laura Gonzales, Matthew Vetter, Brenta Blevins, Jenae Cohn, Paula M Miller, Lindsey Harding
Jenae Cohn is a PhD candidate in English and Writing, Rhetoric, and Composition Studies at UC Davis. Her research explores how materialities of reading and writing technologies affect established and emerging writers' perceptions of reading and writing experiences. She works in her university's WAC program as a graduate writing fellow and also serves as a HASTAC Scholar. She blogs irregularly at www.jenaecohn.net and to get herself writing, she lights candles and dons the fuzziest of socks.
At Computers and Writing, attendees usually only sing together during a round of karaoke. During Professor Meg Noodin’s keynote talk, however, conference attendees sang a traditional Ojibwe children’s song, “Giizis Binoojiyag,” in unison. As conference attendees squinted at the Anishinaabe lyrics projected on the screen, doing their best to echo Noodin’s mellifluous verse, the room instantly filled with the warmth of song, bringing a seemingly “lost” language to life. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/207999859″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Sound clip via Courtney Danforth Noodin, a linguist, poet, and activist, brought energy, clarity, and compassion to her keynote – “Weweni, Take Care” –…
Spoiler alert: In my review of this month’s webtext, I reveal some surprises that the webtext has to offer. I’ll indicate in the body of my text when I’m about to offer one of these spoilers (and a spoiler within a spoiler: the video I’ve embedded is a walkthrough of the webtext, so if you’d like a totally pure experience of accessing the text, don’t watch the video!). In honor of the Digital Rhetoric Collaborative’s upcoming Blog Carnival on Social Justice and Gaming, I decided to explore socially conscious games on the Web! Awareness-raising, civic-minded games, which put the player into…
Text: “Hacking the Classroom: Eight Perspectives” Authors: Jim Brown, Mary Hocks, Aimee Knight, Virginia Kuhn, Viola Lasmana, Elizabeth Losh, Jentery Sayers, Melanie Yergeau Publisher: Computers and Composition Online Publication Date: Spring 2014 If there was a 2014 year-in-review list for the Computer and Writing community, I would undoubtedly nominate the word “hack” as a top-of-the-list contender for the year’s most used (and mis-used) word. I’ll admit that I’ve often been bothered by the appropriation of the word “hack” to describe the process of re-thinking, remixing, remediating, or simply re-doing the ways that we teach writing or the spaces in which…