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…
Advertising Poetry: Remix and Digital Invention
Madison Jones, University of Florida This two-part, multimodal assignment has students thinking about remix and digital poiesis by analyzing and creating advertisements featuring poems. This four-week unit answers Dustin Edwards’…
Talking Back to Textbooks: Glossing Historical Language
Sarah Neville, Ohio State University Educational Level Beginner to advanced Writing component Transcription, annotation Group size Small, medium, large Tools/technology Oxford English Dictionary, textbook Overview This exercise was originally designed…
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…
Omeka: Make Your Own Museum
Tyne Daile Sumner, University of Melbourne Overview In this task students create their own online museum by uploading digital items to an Omeka site and describing them using Dublin…
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…
Students as Digital Annotators of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Leonie Kirchhoff, Miriam Lahrsow & Angelika Zirker, Tübingen University Students frequently groan when they have to read poetry or historically remote literary texts. A complaint like “That’s so difficult. I…
- 1
- 2