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Duration: Semester long

Instagram Narratives in the Composition Classroom

  • Composition / Curriculum and Assessment Design / Duration: Semester long / Prep Level: Moderate / Social Media and Networks

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…

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Students as Social Media Consultants

  • Composition / Curriculum and Assessment Design / Duration: Semester long / Prep Level: Moderate / Publishing and Industry Contexts / Social Media and Networks

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…

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Advertising Poetry: Remix and Digital Invention

  • Composition / Duration: Semester long / Exploring Contexts / Poetry / Technology Specific

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’…

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Omeka: Make Your Own Museum

  • Duration / Duration: 60-90 minutes / Duration: Semester long / Prep Level: Extensive

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…

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Using Slack for Asynchronous Online Discussion to Increase Social Presence

  • Curriculum and Assessment Design / Duration: Semester long / Prep Level: Minimal / Social Media and Networks / Technology Specific

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.…

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Students as Digital Annotators of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

  • Authors and Texts / Duration: 60-90 minutes / Duration: Multiple lessons / Duration: Semester long / Poetry / Prep Level: Extensive / Shakespeare / Technology Specific

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…

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Using wikis for teaching and assessment at a distance learning institution

  • Curriculum and Assessment Design / Duration: Semester long / Prep Level: Moderate / Technology Specific / Uncategorised

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…

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Slack as Facilitator of Online and Offline Discussion

  • Authors and Texts / Curriculum and Assessment Design / Duration: Semester long / Exploring Contexts / Social Media and Networks / Technology Specific

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…

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“A Pedagogy of Long-form Podcasts”: Teaching “Slow Listening” and Composition through Podcasts

  • Authors and Texts / Duration: Semester long / Exploring Contexts / Prep Level: Moderate / Social Media and Networks / Technology Specific / Theory and Concepts

James M Cochran, University of Baylor Following Maura Kelly’s and others’ recent calls for “slow reading” or “Slow Books,” movements that encourage people to “pick up a meaningful work of…

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  • Duration: 60-90 minutes
  • Duration: Multiple lessons
  • Duration: Semester long
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  • Prep Level: Extensive
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  • Prep Level: Moderate
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