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’…
Writing Your Life in Poetry: An Online Creative Writing Workshop
Nicky Harlow, Open University This session has been developed as an introduction to writing autobiographical poetry web-conferencing software. The aims are to: - introduce students to the concept of using…
What’s that Word?: Scholarly editing using web-based resources
Kurt Temple and Rosemary Gaby, University of Tasmania This exercise equips students with the practical skills and knowledge required to transcribe, annotate and present an early printed text. Through completing…
Your Task is to Publish an Ebook
Per Henningsgaard, Curtin University English teachers concerned about student motivation might consider seeking a more authentic audience for student writing. This classroom task offers one possible solution to identifying an…