Our staff are taking a well-deserved winter break. We'll be back the second week in January with a collection of lesson plans for teaching with wearable technology, as well as exciting new posts about sonic rhetorics, student think-alouds, and more. Featured image: "Onward and Upward" by Lady Dragonfly.
Universal Design for Learning: What is it and why should you care?
At the end of this past summer, I was invited to address instructors in the University of Texas' Department of Rhetoric & Writing (DRW) on the theme of 'Accessibility'. The invitation arose from some work I'd done for the DRW to make their syllabus boilerplate more accessible -- reformatting the...
Cool Tools: Piktochart
Have you thought about incorporating infographics into your classroom? Here at UT, the first year writing curriculum now includes an infographic assignment in which students are asked to remix their final persuasive essay into a visual form. The Digital Writing & Research Lab has been collaborating with the Department of...
Job Market Workshop, April 21
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Digital Pedagogy Showcase, April 22
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2016 Speaker Series
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Is a Listicle Better than an Essay?
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Assignment Spotlight: TimeMapper
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You’re Invited: Digital Pedagogy Open House
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“Accessibility: DWRL & Beyond”
Today at noon, DWRL alumna Stephanie Rosen, Accessibility Specialist at the University of Michigan Libraries, is hosting a workshop on accessibility and digital media. Join us in FAC 9, tune in remotely via the Google Hangout, or follow along with our tweets. The handouts and reference material for the workshop...