Instagram Narratives in the Composition Classroom
Sam Meekings, Northwestern University in Qatar Overview This task is designed to get students in English courses to think about how an engaging narrative is structured and created by writing…
Students as Social Media Consultants
Jessica McCaughey, The George Washington University Overview One student follows planetariums on Facebook. Another is an expert on the Twitter account of Donald Trump. A young man follows three feminist…
I Don’t Always Teach Memes, But When I Do, I Use Them To Strengthen Multiliteracies Skills
Hillary Weiss, Wayne State University Overview This lesson plan uses Stuart Selber’s multiliteracies—functional, critical, and rhetorical—as a framework to effectively analyze multiple texts, including internet, image-type memes. Analyzing and…
Using Slack for Asynchronous Online Discussion to Increase Social Presence
Melissa Vosen Callens, North Dakota State University Overview Inmy blended (hybrid) Critical Approaches to Popular Culture course, each weekstudents meet once face-to-face as well as “attend” one asynchronous onlineclass.…
Writing Your Life in Poetry: An Online Creative Writing Workshop
Nicky Harlow, Open University This session has been developed as an introduction to writing autobiographical poetry web-conferencing software. The aims are to: - introduce students to the concept of using…
What’s that Word?: Scholarly editing using web-based resources
Kurt Temple and Rosemary Gaby, University of Tasmania This exercise equips students with the practical skills and knowledge required to transcribe, annotate and present an early printed text. Through completing…
Your Task is to Publish an Ebook
Per Henningsgaard, Curtin University English teachers concerned about student motivation might consider seeking a more authentic audience for student writing. This classroom task offers one possible solution to identifying an…
Using wikis for teaching and assessment at a distance learning institution
Hannah Lavery and Lynda Prescott, The Open University In the 30-week, 60-credit module ‘Voices, Texts and Material Culture’ at the Open University, students are required to engage in online collaborative…
Slack as Facilitator of Online and Offline Discussion
Dorian Hunter Davis, American University This exercise, an interactive alternative to the more traditional class blog, asks students to respond outside of class to an open-ended prompt their instructor posts…