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…
Class Notes
Identifying Affordances and Constraints
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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…
Getting Started on Project 1
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Today we’ll begin work on Project 1, which means we’ll be diving into WordPress and learning about all the features built into the tool. To get started, let’s talk about what makes a website “good” in our Google+ Community. Here’s…
Class Logistics and Tools
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We’ll spend about half of today’s class getting the online tools that we’ll use during the term set up. Specifically, we’ll look at the Scholar site briefly, I’ll share some tutorials from Lynda.com, and we’ll get connected on the Google+…
Welcome to Writing and Digital Media
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Welcome to English 3844, Writing and Digital Media. This site is the official home for our course. All assignments, weekly and daily activities, and related resources will be posted here. So bookmark it, memorize the URL, or have the address…