Lesson Plan: Failure Interviews
Marnie Ritchie
May 4, 2018
Image Public Domain, Flickr The goal of this lesson is for students to interview someone who has failed at something—in a small or large, invisible
Software and Web Tools
Lesson Plan: Combining Digital Literacies (Piktochart, iMovie, Audacity)
Reinhard Mueller
April 20, 2018
Acquiring digital skills does not just mean learning how to find one’s way successfully when navigating on the internet, but it also involves, especially in
Lesson Plan: Making Documents Accessible for Screen Reader Software
Ansley Colclough
March 9, 2018
In an earlier blog post, the DWRL offered various free resources and tips for creating visual content that is accessible to people with visual impairments.
Lesson Plan: Digital Video Reporting Project (with iMovie and Audacity)
Reinhard Mueller
February 28, 2018
Today’s shift towards the vast complexity of digital literacies involves, perhaps more than any other medium, the skills of producing digital videos, including the so-called
Wearables Lesson Plan: Yelp
Reinhard Mueller
January 5, 2018
Yelp is a virtual marketplace that has been shaping our spatial orientation for many years, since it was founded in 2004 and has increasingly expanded
Accessible Data Visualizations
Ansley Colclough
January 3, 2018
Are you reading this blog post from computer screen or an screen reader? Did you need to adjust the font or text size, screen brightness,
Lesson Plan: Visualizing Difference with Tableau Public
Mac Scott
December 27, 2017
In his much referenced TED Talk, David McCandless says that “if you start working with [data] and playing with it in a certain way, interesting
Managing Attention in the Classroom with Distraction
Jake Cowan
December 13, 2017
Two of the more ubiquitous problems instructors face today are, on the one hand, the pervasive distraction of smartphones, and on the other hand, the
Lesson Plan: Using Siri to Teach the Ethics of Digital Labor
Andrew Heermans
December 12, 2017
The rapid rate by which technology replaces and outdates itself has been measured since 1965 by Moore’s Law, which dictates that the amount of transistors
Lesson Plan: Visualizing Sound by Captioning Nonspeech Sounds
Matt Breece
December 11, 2017
Although closed-captioning is usually thought of in terms of accessibility, it also highlights the larger rhetorical significance of sound—a significance which is most notably taken
Lesson Plan: Teaching Research with Sam Barlow’s Her Story
Cole Wehrle
December 7, 2017
Usually when video games appear in the college classroom, they are objects of analysis. We critique them as if they were a book or a
Lesson Plan: Fake News
Marnie Ritchie
November 23, 2017
Featured image via Vox Friedrich Nietzsche famously wrote in On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense that truth is “a movable host of metaphors,