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,...
Think-Alouds: Charting How Students Think
[cs_content][cs_section parallax="false" separator_top_type="none" separator_top_height="50px" separator_top_angle_point="50" separator_bottom_type="none" separator_bottom_height="50px" separator_bottom_angle_point="50" 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="1/1" style="padding: 0px;"][x_image type="none" src="http://www.dwrl.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/audiobook-recording-hero.jpg" alt="" link="false" href="#" title="" target="" info="none" info_place="top" info_trigger="hover" info_content=""][cs_text]As an instructor, I have often wished that I could examine my students' thought processes....
We Need to Talk About Credibility
Last week I hid someone from my Facebook news feed. We’ve all done it, and I’m sure people have done it to me. I was tired of seeing things that I found obnoxious or insipid or offensive or false or all of the above, and rather than unfriend them, I...
Reading in the Digital Age: Audiobooks by Librivox
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Lesson Plan: Narrative Numbers
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Lesson Plan: Visualizing and Analyzing Texts with Voyant
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Lesson Plan: Photography, Photoshop, and Visual Rhetoric
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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...
Pedagogical Periscope: The Basics of Streaming a Webinar from Your Phone
Whether it’s the weather or you’re just feeling under the weather, traveling to campus and working with students in person isn’t always the best course of action for your writing course. In fact, staying home can sometimes be the most pedagogically effective choice—students always will appreciate the break, and you...
The Art (and Rhetoric) of Trolling
Matt Breece, a graduate student in Rhetoric, has been teaching the Rhetoric of Trolling for two semesters, accidentally becoming a trolling expert. I talked to him about his course, which he is teaching this semester in one of our DWRL classrooms. --Interview transcription-- Sarah Welsh: Hi Matt Matthew Breece: Hi...