Instagram Narratives in the Composition Classroom
Sam Meekings, Northwestern University in Qatar Overview This task is designed to get students in English courses to think about how an engaging narrative is structured and created by writing…
Students as Social Media Consultants
Jessica McCaughey, The George Washington University Overview One student follows planetariums on Facebook. Another is an expert on the Twitter account of Donald Trump. A young man follows three feminist…
Advertising Poetry: Remix and Digital Invention
Madison Jones, University of Florida This two-part, multimodal assignment has students thinking about remix and digital poiesis by analyzing and creating advertisements featuring poems. This four-week unit answers Dustin Edwards’…
Omeka: Make Your Own Museum
Tyne Daile Sumner, University of Melbourne Overview In this task students create their own online museum by uploading digital items to an Omeka site and describing them using Dublin…
Using Slack for Asynchronous Online Discussion to Increase Social Presence
Melissa Vosen Callens, North Dakota State University Overview Inmy blended (hybrid) Critical Approaches to Popular Culture course, each weekstudents meet once face-to-face as well as “attend” one asynchronous onlineclass.…
Students as Digital Annotators of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Leonie Kirchhoff, Miriam Lahrsow & Angelika Zirker, Tübingen University Students frequently groan when they have to read poetry or historically remote literary texts. A complaint like “That’s so difficult. I…
Using wikis for teaching and assessment at a distance learning institution
Hannah Lavery and Lynda Prescott, The Open University In the 30-week, 60-credit module ‘Voices, Texts and Material Culture’ at the Open University, students are required to engage in online collaborative…
Slack as Facilitator of Online and Offline Discussion
Dorian Hunter Davis, American University This exercise, an interactive alternative to the more traditional class blog, asks students to respond outside of class to an open-ended prompt their instructor posts…
“A Pedagogy of Long-form Podcasts”: Teaching “Slow Listening” and Composition through Podcasts
James M Cochran, University of Baylor Following Maura Kelly’s and others’ recent calls for “slow reading” or “Slow Books,” movements that encourage people to “pick up a meaningful work of…