Inspired by Virginia Tech Libraries’ digital literacy initiative, I am sharing a series of activities that ask students to examine how digital technology shapes literacy and the ways that people interact with others in my recent posts. So far, I…
Category: Teaching
Revising the Resources List on My Syllabus
This week’s post on Bedford Bits describes the work I have begun on revising my course documents to make them more visual. The ultimate goal is to make them more engaging and more useful to students. I started with the…
Connecting Selber and Halliday
Ever since I looked at the review of Stuart Selber’s Multiliteracies for a Digital Age in Composition Forum 14.2 (Courtesy of a tip from Bradley Dilger), I have been reflecting on my notes about M. A. K. Halliday’s literacy engagements.…
Alphabetic Text as the Only Text
I’m befuddled by this MLA call for proposals for a volume on the Changing Role of Writing in Composition. Everything I understand about multimodal texts tells me that any alphabetic text is not tapping the linguistic mode alone; but from…
Tools for Teaching Accessiblity?
So I’ve been considering some of the issues that have been raised at the 2015 Summer Seminar: Access/ibility in Digital Publishing, trying to figure out where I fit in. I have some experience with many different kinds of issues, but…
Faking Social Media Updates
One of my favorite projects has students creating social media updates from someone else’s point of view. Students choose fictional or nonfictional characters and then create Tweets, Facebook status updates, and Instagram posts. The challenge is that I don’t want…
Remembering Maya Angelou
Poet and author Maya Angelou died Wednesday, May 28, in her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Angelou is considered one of the finest poets of her generation. In addition, she authored several books chronicling her youth and adolescence, including I Know…
Finding Persuasion in Unexpected Places
As I did last summer, I spent twelve days this month with my sister on a road trip from Virginia to Utah, with a stay in Salt Lake City for the Stampin’ Up convention in the middle. I learned a…
my #clmooc journey so far
Our project for the third week of #clmooc was to make a map of some kind. I took the first option and created this map of my journey in this course so far. If the text size is too small,…
24 Free Audiobooks to Download This Summer
If you like audiobooks, check out the free young adult audiobook downloads from Sync YA Audiobooks. It’s 24 books–two each week starting on May 30. I’ve downloaded these books the past two summers, and they are excellent books each year.…