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You’re Invited: Spring Digital Pedagogy Showcase
Please join members of the Digital Writing & Research Lab for the 2017 Spring Digital Pedagogy Showcase. What: A presentation of digital lesson plans and assignments, designed for writing courses and curricula by members of the Digital Writing & Research Lab. Pizza and beverages will be provided. Where: UNB 4.224...
Save the Date: Roundtable Interview and Lunch with Dr. Jim Brown
The DWRL is pleased to welcome Dr. Jim Brown to campus for our first annual Alumni Network Event March 29-31, 2017. Dr. Brown is an Assistant Professor of English and the Director of the Digital Studies Center at Rutgers University. He is a 2009 alum of the Digital Writing & Research...
Accessibility Project Update: Mapping Narratives of Access
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Spring 2017 Speaker Series: Laurie Gries, “Doing Digital Visual Studies”
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Invisible Knowledge
Since you’re reading this online publication, I imagine that you, like me, leave hundreds of digital traces every day. A lot of these traces are things we can see--things like emails, texts, blog posts, twitter posts, photographs, Youtube comments, or Facebook likes. But today I’m particularly interested in the invisible,...
Remixing the News
In the last couple weeks, we’ve heard a lot about fake news, and “post-truth” was recently named by Oxford Dictionaries as its word of the year. One of the things this has had me thinking about is not only how news stories proliferate online, but how information transforms as it...
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...
Workshop: Managing Long-Term Projects, 9/9/16
Got a long road ahead? You don't have to travel alone. Join us this Friday between 1 and 3pm in PAR 102 for our Managing Long-Term Projects Workshop, where you'll learn project management strategies and digital tools to make your next major project a breeze. If you have questions about...
Summer Lab
Throughout the summer the lab admin team puts our collective heads together to figure out what the DWRL will focus on this coming year. We've been at it since June and have made great progress, but most of it is behind the scenes. Since lab staffers aren't producing new content...