Last Friday, the DWRL hosted another workshop in preparation for the digitally accessible map we plan to create for our diverse student body. In conjunction with a discussion of collecting and analyzing data, Amy Tuttle provided an excellent lesson on Tableau, an online service that allows users to re-present data...
Affectively Interactive
One of my favorite data visualizations concerns the Beatles. Created by Adam McCann from Dueling Data, the graphic, amongst other things, lets the user hover their computer cursor over illustrations of band members to see how many hit songs those members have written and when. I find the visualization memorable,...
Adobe Creatives: What’s the Difference?
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Teaching Data Visualization: An Introduction
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#TBT: Multimediating
In today’s #TBT post, we showcase an episode of the DWRL's rhet/tech podcast Zeugma. "Multimediating" considers the productive forms of risk and failure that come with introducing audio assignments into university writing courses. In the episode, Dr. Rita Raley, Associate Professor of English at the University of California-Santa Barbara, talks...
Workshop Recap: Audio Recording and Editing
Last Friday, The DWRL hosted one of its bi-weekly digital literacy workshops, where staff members can increase their digital literacy and ascertain useful skills for the digital world we live in. This last week's workshop circled around audio: from genres of audio, strategies for using audio, finding audio that is...
Audio: Avital Ronell’s Digital Traces
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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...
Digital Pedagogy Showcase: Google Tours in the Writing Classroom
At the DWRL's 2016 Spring Digital Pedagogy Showcase, the Augmented Reality Research Group showed attendees how to design assignments and lesson plans using Google Tours. (more…)
Is a Listicle Better than an Essay?
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