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Day 1 of Project 2 Presentations

Today we begin the five-minute presentations for Project 2. Your job during this session is to pay attention, since you may want to use these tools yourself in either Project 3 or 4. After the presentations, I’d like you to…

Preparing for Project 2 Presentations

Today, we’ll spend time in class on the reflection memo for Project 2, but first we need to discuss the five-minute presentations for the project as a class. My dream plan is to spend a few minutes going over the…

Project 2 Peer Review

Today, you will share the rough draft of your web essay for project 2 with another student in the classroom. Here’s what we’ll do: Sign-up for a presentation slot for sharing your tool with the class, using the Sign-Up Tool…

Identifying Affordances and Constraints

Since the snow day interrupted our progress, rough drafts are now due next class period, February 20. The due date, deadline, and presentation dates will remain the same. We’ll spend a few minutes talking about the dates and the class…

Analyzing Multimodal Projects

Last class we identified the modes that the many texts we interact with every day use. Today, we are going to analyze a text using the information from Chapter 2, and then I’ll ask you to apply the same analysis…

What Are Multimodal Projects?

Today we are going on a multimodal dig. Remember that there are five modes of communication, as explained in Chapter 1 of Writer/Designer (see the image at the end of the post if you need a refresher). For today’s in-class…

Submitting Project 1

Today is the due date for the first project for the course, Building a Web Portal. Remember that you have a one-week grace period for turning in your project if you need it. You can use the class session to…

Tips for Project 1

There have been some questions about the pages that are required for the first project, so I have some extra information here to help you understand what information goes on which page. The differences among the pages are nuanced, but…

Working on Web Portals

We’ll continue working with WordPress today. By now, I hope you have all had a chance to look through some of the themes and find one that you can work with. If not, my advice is to choose something for…

9th Annual English Undergraduate Conference

I know that some of you are English majors and minors, so I want to pass along this call for proposals for the English Undergraduate Conference from Vanessa Ruccolo. Use the e-submission form for 2014 to submit a proposal. Submissions…