By: Nidia Alonso, Alexis Denton, Cory Godin, Merissa Hillary, Chandan Puri, and Kristin Ravel Note on the shared authorship of this post: Although each individual author situates themselves in a specific section using first-person narrative, this post has been written collaboratively—all authors participated in the writing, revising, and editing of each section. Given the unique challenges COVID-19 presents to traditional face-to-face coursework, more and more instructors are turning to freeware such as Discord, Slack, Padlet, and Jamboard in order to better support student engagement and learning. In this post, we—Dr. Kristin Ravel and five students from her 2020 summer undergraduate…
Author: Kristin Ravel
Kristin Ravel
Dr. Kristin Ravel is an Assistant Professor of English at Rockford University. Her research interests encompass multimodality, digital media studies, ethics in communication, and feminist theory.
As their time with the DRC draws to a close, the 2017-2018 DRC Fellows offer reflections on their experiences, what they’ve learned, and where they go from here. Jason Tham It’s a privilege to work with Naomi Silver, Anne Gere, Adrienne Raw, and the DRC Fellows this past academic year. Through the various projects we have undertaken and collaborated on, I have expanded my personal learning network immensely. The DRC has given me a platform to share my perspectives and ideas. More importantly, being a DRC Fellow lets me connect with scholars in the field who are doing very interesting…
It was great to see everyone at the 2018 Computers & Writing conference (#cwcon) in Fairfax, Virginia! Held May 24-27, this year’s conference was hosted by Douglas Eyman and his team at George Mason University. The theme for the conference was Digital Phronesis: Code/Culture/Play. Presentations and talks were given around topics that intersect digital rhetoric, practical wisdom, embodied experience, pedagogy, ethics, and more. As with past C&W conferences, we put out a call for conference panel and keynote reviews, and are glad to showcase a handful of them here. These reviews give us a glimpse at the conference. We hope…
When I was young I use to play a lot of games. Zelda was my favorite, and I was better at it than all the boys in my family. When I dreamed, sometimes I would dream I was in the body of Link, the playable lead male in all Zelda games. How weird it was to wake up and realize such a divide: my body a girl’s but in my dreams, fighting monsters to save the world, in a boy’s. Now, I’m playing fewer games and spending more time writing. Writing in academic genres of course. Those that will eventually…