Late last week, Dr. K.J. Rawson launched the Digital Transgender Archive, which the Boston Globe has described as "a compendium of historic documents, oral-history transcripts, photographs, and newsletters" that, together, constitute a transgender past. (more…)
Spring 2016 Speaker Series: K.J. Rawson, “The Rhetorical Work of Digital Archives”
Please join the Digital Writing & Research Lab for Dr. K.J. Rawson's lecture, 'The Rhetorical Work of Digital Archives," on Friday February 19 at 3pm. The talk will be held at the Texas Union UNB in room 3.304 (Quadrangle Room). (more…)
RhetLab #1 with Dr. Casey Boyle
Spring 2016 DWRL Staff Orientation
Welcome Spring 2016 Lab Members! (more…)
Digital Lesson Plan Open House: Augmented Reality
To Our Usual Readers, In lieu of a conventional blog post, and in preparation for the 2015 DWRL Digital Lesson Plan Open House, this post summarizes a lesson on augmenting a physical space to better understand arguments about the rhetoric of space -- in this case, the DWRL itself (how meta!). See...
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...
Annotation Swarm: DWRLers to Illuminate Alumnus James Brown’s Book
In honor of Open Access Week, October 19 through 25, the University of Texas at Austin’s Digital Writing and Research Lab (DWRL) will lead a collaborative annotation of DWRL alumnus James Brown's new book Ethical Programs: Hospitality and the Rhetorics of Software (University of Michigan Press, 2015) using the Hypothes.is...
Recap: JSTOR Labs #hackthehumanities @ UT Libraries
The JSTOR Labs team visited Austin last week for a weeklong #hackthehumanities residency at UT Libraries.
Recap: hypothes.is Workshop
On Friday, September 18, DWRL alum Dr. Jeremy Dean returned to the FAC basement to introduce instructors from around the university to online annotation tool hypothes.is. Tweets from the event are collected below and include tips for using hypothes.is in different disciplines, sample assignments and previews of coming attractions--as well as...