For the DWRL's annual Speaker Series in April 2018, Professor Reider discussed three canons of rhetoric that he developed for the post-PC era of physical computing: transduction, allegorization, and eversion. These canons help his students make projects with microcontrollers and code. Watch the talk here:
From the Archive: Learning To Move: Connecting Pedagogy With Context Through A Difficult Classroom
The lab is hosting a open house this coming Friday that showcases the pedagogical work that our staff members have been doing this semester. We're planning on rearranging one of our rooms a bit to fit everyone in, and this got us thinking about how drastically the physical classroom can...
#TBT: "Avatar Nation Secedes," A Lecture by Dr. Cynthia Haynes (2008)
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From the Archive: Preparing White Papers in the CWRL
We'd like to kick off our "From the Archive" series with former lab director Peg Syverson's initial white paper. It "launches the CWRL White Paper Series. It establishes a rationale, principles, and guidelines for structuring white papers and suggests how they might be distributed and archived for future use." The...
A Long Goodbye to Currents
We've been saying goodbye to Currents in Electronic Literacy for a while now. In 2014, the journal published its retrospective issue. In the Spring of 2015, we made the official announcement that Currents would cease publication. In the announcement, we wrote, "After a great deal of soul searching and discussion,...
Looking Back at Viz.
As the DWRL bids farewell to Viz., its award-winning visual rhetoric blog, we look back at this popular publication and its place in the field of visual rhetoric. (more…)
Single-Stream Pedagogy
Throughout its history the Digital Writing and Research Lab has maintained a commitment to digital pedagogy. In his history of the early days of the lab, John Slatin mentions one of our first projects, a digital archive. (more…)
Infographic: Vale, Zeugma
With the changes to the DWRL's structure and operations this year, we're bidding farewell to our previous publications. Zeugma was made between 2012 and 2015, and over its run tackled a broad range of current issues around rhetoric and technology. While we are not currently planning an ongoing podcast series...