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: Laura Gonzales
Laura Gonzales, Matthew Vetter, Brenta Blevins, Jenae Cohn, Paula M Miller, Lindsey Harding
Laura Gonzales is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Studies at the University of Texas, El Paso. Her research focuses on highlighting the benefits of linguistic diversity in professional and academic spaces.
In an effort to continue building bridges and collaborating efforts between K-12 and higher education, this blog carnival seeks to open conversations about the ways digital writing is taught, encouraged, and facilitated in K-12 classrooms. Stemming from conversations taking place at the 4T Virtual Conference on Digital Writing, in addition to ongoing research conducted through the Michigan Teachers as Researchers Collaborative (MiTRC), we invite short reviews, commentaries, lessons, and examples illustrating the ways digital writing plays a role in K-12 instruction. For the purposes of this blog carnival, we use the term “digital writing” to mean any activities, lessons, and…
Panelists Jason Dockter, Lincoln Land Community College Jacki Fiscus, Univerity of Washington Review While I always enjoy learning about new approaches to teaching multimodality, what made Jason Dockter and Jacki Fiscus’ multimodality panel particularly interesting and useful to me was their perfect combination of theory and practice. Both presenters introduced and discussed their theoretical approaches to multimodality, before sharing specific examples and activities that they developed to enact these theories in their classrooms and writing programs. First, Jason Dockter, drawing on 15 years of experience as an online writing instructor, began his presentation with seemingly simple yet often un-asked questions:…
The Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative is seeking reviewers for Computers & Writing 2015 sessions. We have enjoyed having many contributors in past years and hope many of our readers would be willing to write a session review to be published on the DRC site this summer! If you would like to be a reviewer for a #cwcon session, please visit our Google Form to either sign up for a keynote or session to review. You may also propose a different panel to review. Your review should include an overview of the session, but should also address key implications, stakes, or take-away…