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…
I Don’t Always Teach Memes, But When I Do, I Use Them To Strengthen Multiliteracies Skills
Hillary Weiss, Wayne State University Overview This lesson plan uses Stuart Selber’s multiliteracies—functional, critical, and rhetorical—as a framework to effectively analyze multiple texts, including internet, image-type memes. Analyzing and…
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.…
Process not Product: Rethinking Composition in the Digital Humanities Classroom
Matthew Hannah, Purdue University The twenty-first century humanities classroom has been undergoing exciting changes. With the spread of digital scholarship initiatives, and the development of digital tools, instructors are finding innovative…
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…
Making Pictures Speak
Alistair Brown, Durham University In the era of social media, images dominate over text. For English students in a world of Instagram and Amazon, images can reveal a great deal…