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Lesson Plan: Wearable Devices as Personal Archives
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Teaching Wearables and Metadata: An Introduction
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Lesson Plan: Wearable Tech and Metadata
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Lesson Plan: Data, Privacy and Identity on Facebook
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Lesson Plan: Thyncing about Technology & Emotion
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Rhetorical Numbers: A Workshop with Dr. Joanna Wolfe
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Using Raugmenter to Map the 1966 Tower Shooting
If you wanted to design an augmented reality app, but didn’t have programming expertise, what would you do? Last fall, two graduate students, Felipe Cruz (now, Dr. Cruz), Keith Leisner, and Deb Streusand began working on Raugmenter in the DWRL. This tool was designed to make the augmented reality platform LayAR...
Learning to Learn, Digitally
A couple years ago, I enrolled in my first digital rhetorics course. I was excited, but also insecure, certain that I was out of my league compared to my classmates, all of whom I assumed were naturals when it came to all things digital. Even though I knew this way of...
Talk: “Supporting the Knowledge Work of Peer Learning with Eli Review”, 3.30pm 9/28
[cs_content][cs_section parallax="false" style="margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;"][cs_row inner_container="true" marginless_columns="false" style="margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;"][cs_column fade="false" fade_animation="in" fade_animation_offset="45px" fade_duration="750" type="1/2" style="padding: 0px;"][x_image type="none" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/464889919241199616/xPWIQM4C.jpeg" alt="" link="false" href="#" title="" target="" info="none" info_place="top" info_trigger="hover" info_content=""][/cs_column][cs_column fade="false" fade_animation="in" fade_animation_offset="45px" fade_duration="750" type="1/2" style="padding: 0px;"][cs_text]Join the Department of Rhetoric & Writing for Prof. Bill Hart-Davidson's talk, entitled "Supporting...