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Cool Tools: Sound Mapping
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Re/Constructing Monopoly
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Digital Pedagogy Showcase: Twine Games in the Writing Classroom
At the Spring Digital Pedagogy Showcase, the DWRL's Twine Game Research Group shared resources and ideas for incorporating Twine—a textual, nonlinear, game-making program—into a basic writing curriculum. (more…)
Lesson Plan: Using Twitter for Research
Last semester I worked with the DWRL, as well as undergraduate students Chioma Nwosu, Eliza Marks, Kayla Marks, and Jazmyn Griffin, to develop a short podcast describing the research value of Twitter. It centered on searching Twitter for quotes by using the hashtag function, and covered some of the issues...
Typographic Prosopopoeia Lesson Plan
Among the many other fantastic lesson plans outlined by our DWRL colleagues for the recent Digital Pedagogy Open House, the Typography Team™ offered the following exercise as one way to integrate a rhetoric of fonts into a writing classroom. In your typical freshman comp class, instructors often observe that a student tends to give more thought to...
Assignment Spotlight: TimeMapper
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Cool Tools: TimeMapper
TimeMapper is a free and open source tool for building timemaps, visualizations in which every data point is mapped to both its temporal and geographic location. (more…)
Resources for Instructors
Are you an instructor looking for resources about digital pedagogy? Check out our retired Lesson Plan site, and our retired Blogging Pedagogy site. Make sure you check back soon for more content related to digital pedagogies.