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- 7 Things You Should Know About... | ELI | EDUCAUSE Good list of tools worth knowing about. Many more than 7.
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- Writing Across the Curriculum: The Nursing Classroom A good annotated bibliography on writing with nursing students.
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- Social and Behavioral Sciences Institutional Review Board Good page for IRB and permissions information vis-a-vis documentary.
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- Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed :: First-Year Writing Gets a New Look Good story on multiliteracies approach to comp at Drexel U.
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- Across the Great Divide: Graphic Novels Looks like an interesting blog with plenty of potential class material.
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- K A I R O S: 7.1 Detailed and insightful review of Manovich's Language of New Media by Bradley Dilger. He sees great classroom potential, and Madeleine Sorapure has nicely adapted the principles to the classroom. I might need to give this a try.
- English 269: Digital Media Composing Susan Delagrange's class; interesting assignments and reading choices to learn from.
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- Thesis Statements Pretty good suggestions for thesis statements; anticipates various scenarios.
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- The Tao of Instructional Models by Lawrence Baines and Edmund J The use of Taoist and Zen principles for education keeps coming up in my web searches--a sign worth paying attention to.
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- Rhetoric and Composition - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks This wiki textbook has some good material, although not genre-based, and perhaps ironically, going online resulted in a text-heavy, image-light textbook. Maybe what this work needs are some videos, some flash demonstrations, more visual language.
- Thesis Workshop A very practical document with some potentially useful items to teach framing an argument and developing a good thesis statement. Needs some updating and modifying--could be more supple.
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- Writing Center A clear description of how to write a free-standing academic summary.
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- Michael L. Kent, Ph.D. Professor Kent has published on information literacy topics like the value of Google Scholar and how to evaluate sources. He has pdfs to articles on his website.
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- TVO: The Corporation A teaching resource for working with the documentary, The Corporation.
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- TCU Film Library Link to film library.
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- Encyclopedia of Educational Technology A revised Bloom's taxonomy; synthesize has been dropped, create has been added. Looks like other integrative moves have been suggested.
- T4 - Pay Attention A thought provoking video that cites sources at the bottom of slides. an excellent example of the kind of video commentary I hope students might create at the end of 120.
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- inventio: creative thinking about learning and teaching This specific articles is about (mis)trusting Turnitin.com.
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- Morphing Textbook An online textbooked designed and writing by graduate instructors at the University of Iowa. The program cobines speech and writing, but the text has good material on rhetorical analysis, ice-breaking activities, rhetorical triangle, etc.
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- Bob Whipple's course on Literacy, Technology, and Society Good looking course, great set of notes, especially the Eisenstein notes.
The Official (for now) Home Page of Kevin Brooks, Associate Professor of English, North Dakota State University.
Working at the interface of literacy and electracy, print culture and visual culture, text and image, visual and acoustic space. What better way to hold these things together than SuprGlu?
Online Publications
"Changing the Ground of Graduate Education: Wireless Laptops Bring Stability, not Mobility to Graduate Teaching Assistants." (Abstract only.) Going Wireless."The Classical Trivium: A Heuristic and Heuretic for New Media and Digital Communication." Kairos 11.3 (2007).
"What's Going On? Listening to Music, Composing Videos." Computers and Composition Online. 2006.
"Remediation, Genre, and Motivation: Key Concepts for Teaching with Weblogs." Into the Blogosphere, 2004.
"The McLuhan Retrieval Reviewed." Kairos 9.1 (2004).
Online Projects, in Progress
"Career Compass and Multimedia Lab: The MyStory as Pedagogical, Problem-finding Genre." Presented at the North Dakota Humanities Summit, Oct. 2006."Strangers in a Strange Land: A MEmorial for the Lost Boys of the Sudan*." Presented at Computers and Writing 2007.
"Understanding Weblogs: A Visua-Verbal Probe." Presented at the Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing Conference. Reviewed by Catherine Hooper (slightly different title).
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