Category: New Media
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Notes on “Identity Interface: Rhetorical Analysis, Graphic Design, and Comics”
Notes from another CCCC session that I found engaging. In this session, the presenter spent a good deal of time thinking about design from the standpoint of a writing teacher, and I found her angle on it informative. In particular, I found her categories of balance, unity, gestalt, and hierarchy a more nuanced way of…
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Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us
The link to this video, “Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us” has been the hit of the day on a number of listservs that I am on. Watch it, and you will see why.
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Thoughts on "All Things Google: Thinking Across Software Modules”
Today, Andrea and I are presenting at the annual MSU Tech Conference, and we are both sitting here in the kiva, Macs at the ready, to listen to the following panel discussion: All Things Google: Thinking Across Software Modules Google recently released a number of powerful, free tools that are very useful for classroom teachers.…
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Thoughts on “All Things Google: Thinking Across Software Modules”
Today, Andrea and I are presenting at the annual MSU Tech Conference, and we are both sitting here in the kiva, Macs at the ready, to listen to the following panel discussion: All Things Google: Thinking Across Software Modules Google recently released a number of powerful, free tools that are very useful for classroom teachers.…
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Podcasting with Bonnie, Thinking about Critical Aspects of Digital Literacy
Bonnie asks a good (and loaded) question here: How could I bring the podcasts onto the team blog? Well, a few of you noticed that I tried to test a podcast through my blog/feed the other day. I did that to help Bonnie from HVWP to do a podcast for her tech team. Then, Karen…
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Typo Generator
Now, here is a great way to kill time and generate cool graphics for your blog: typoGenerator Interestingly enough, the warning at the bottom of this image says “the images used for generating may be subject to copyright.” Also interesting, as soon as I clicked away from the page, the temp image that was stored…
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Congrats to Gene Yang!
For the long delay, I apologize, but I wanted to share the news that one of the teachers who presented a workshop for us this summer, Gene Yang, has been selected as a finalist for the National Book Award. Hooray! Gene Luen Yang American Born Chinese First Second/Roaring Brook Press/Holtzbrinck About the Book This graphic…
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Whoa! Zotero
Goodbye 3×5 cards. No, really, this time I mean that you must get rid of these cards and jump feet first into the web-based research revolution. Easybib was cool, but this is awesome. I just downloaded and installed Zotero, a Firefox extension. Here is part of the press release from the Center for History and…