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Dr. Jason Tham is an associate professor and former DRC Fellow at Texas Tech University specializing in Design thinking, User experience research, Instructional design, and Digital rhetoric. Recommended resources: Buchanan, Richard. “Declaration by Design: Rhetoric, Argument, and Demonstration in Design Practice.” Design Issues, vol. 2, no. 1, 1985, pp. 4–22, https://doi.org/10.2307/1511524. Johansson-Sköldberg, Ulla, et al. “Design Thinking: Past, Present and Possible Futures.” Creativity and Innovation Management, vol. 22, no. 2, 2013, pp. 121–46, https://doi.org/10.1111/caim.12023. Kostelnick, Charles. “Process Paradigms in Design and Composition: Affinities and Directions.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 40, no. 3, 1989, pp. 267–81, https://doi.org/10.2307/357774. Weaver, Jesse. “Design Has…

Welcome back to the Tool Blog post series, Hack & Yack! We explore how we can employ edtech tools for composing, editing, networking, and other writing-related activities in our research and classrooms! Today, we’re featuring the go-to APP for writing, Scrivener! What does this tool do? Scrivener is an app for writers to create and manage various writing projects, for example, dissertations, journals, manuscripts, novels, and so on. What the app officially describes on its website is that it provides everything you need to start writing and keep writing. Who is this tool for? Scrivener is for writers of all kinds. Students…

My early experiences with computers can be traced back to elementary school in the early 2000s. I still remember that in the brand-new school computer lab, we first learned to type on a piece of cardboard, a 1:1 ratio full keyboard, before we used the real device. We played a typing practice game (cannot remember the name) that helped the frog jump across a river with English words shown on the moving wood chunks. The player needs to type the words in order within a certain time to pass the game. In the ninth grade, my parents bought a home computer,…