The most obvious connection between writing and design is communication. Graphic designers communicate through visual elements, and writers communicate through the written word. Although they make use of different tools, essentially they both foreground methods that bring about an exchange of information. But can learning graphic design help us understand...
Is a Listicle Better than an Essay?
[x_section style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 45px 0px 45px 0px; "][x_row inner_container="true" marginless_columns="false" bg_color="" style="margin: 0px auto 0px auto; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; "][x_column bg_color="" type="2/3" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; "][x_text]Dusty Hixenbaugh teaches the Rhetoric of Country Music in the DWRL, asking his students to contribute to...
Typographic Prosopopoeia Lesson Plan
Among the many other fantastic lesson plans outlined by our DWRL colleagues for the recent Digital Pedagogy Open House, the Typography Team™ offered the following exercise as one way to integrate a rhetoric of fonts into a writing classroom. In your typical freshman comp class, instructors often observe that a student tends to give more thought to...
Assignment Spotlight: TimeMapper
[x_section style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 45px 0px 45px 0px; "][x_row inner_container="true" marginless_columns="false" bg_color="" style="margin: 0px auto 0px auto; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; "][x_column bg_color="" type="1/1" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; "][x_text]When the DWRL staff started talking about preparing digital lesson plans for new instructors teaching first year...
A Discussion on Discussions
Among teachers, silence is always a concern. You assign an intriguing, provocative and controversial reading to your students, hoping for a lively discussion in the classroom, a debate which will spark new ideas and lead to the questioning of old assumptions (assuming, that is, that students have in fact done...
Resources for Instructors
Are you an instructor looking for resources about digital pedagogy? Check out our retired Lesson Plan site, and our retired Blogging Pedagogy site. Make sure you check back soon for more content related to digital pedagogies.