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Whew!

tjraehl — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:52:44 +0000

So I’ve just uploaded the last of the videos to my blog, along with my portfolio summary. I must say, it is a relief to have this finished. This final project was indeed a monster that took on a life of its own, but I’m happy with the way it turned out, and I think the rest of the group is as well. Obviously my work may not be as polished as you are used to viewing, but I think it is endearing and scholarly in its own way. I enjoyed this class a great deal, and I hope it was as much fun to teach it as it was to learn. Have a great holiday everyone!

Progress Report

tjraehl — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:40:14 +0000

I think that like most groups, our biggest obstacle right now is uploading and sorting through all our video. I’m happy with how our story board turned out, as we have a pretty clear idea of what our project should be. Now, we just have the tedious work ahead. On Monday our group met to film our interview vignettes (I was unable to attend), and hopefully they turned out well. Other than this, I feel the project will only get harder from here on out, but I think we are up for the challenge.

Conference Schedule

tjraehl — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:18:52 +0000

Session A

Joanna Wolfe

University of Louisville

Tablet PC Technology in the Writing Classroom

Overviews how Tablet PCs—laptops on which instructors can write directly on electronic documents using “digital ink”—can be used to enhance writing instruction.

Session B

Patrick Corbett

University of Louisville

A gamer is I: Inter-Reactions of Ideology and Identity in the (Critical?) Literacy Practices of College-Aged Gamers

Examination of how a critical literacy of video game playing is affected by dual influences of identity and ideology.

Session C

Jessica Barros

Bristol Community College

Leaders of the New School: Sampling and Remixing in Rap and Hip-Hop Pedagogy in Revisionist Writing

Craig’s presentation will focus on turntablism and remixing in hip-hop music as a multimodal metaphor for teaching English Composition. Barros’s presentation discusses rap’s sampling of verbal tags and media images as pedagogy for composing Electronic Research Essays that include multiple literacies of diverse students.

Session D

Jason F. Lovvorn

Vanderbilt University

What’s the Story? Narrative Forms and Rhetorical Affordances in MMOG Play

Drawing on various narrative forms in the online game,

A Tale in the Desert, this paper analyses how such narratives, as hybrid constructions, leverage rhetorical power for their composers.

Session E

Andrew William Smith & Sarah Young

Tennessee Technological University

“OMG Prof”: YouTubing, Facebooking, and Blogging in the Writing Classroom

An instructor and undergraduate student share their experiences with the practical and playful classroom use of web-based realities like YouTube, Facebook, Blogger, and LiveJournal.

Session F

Amelia Herb

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

(Re)search Methods: Where is the Composition Teacher in the New Millennium?

How can we, as scholars and composition pedagogues, help our students search the web and online scholarly databases and indices more effectively for the “new work of composing”?

Session G

Bronwyn T. Williams

University of Louisville

“Is That Really Me? I Just Like the Music”: Popular Culture and Online Performances of Identity

Students’ use of popular culture content in composing personal pages on social networking sites and in posting on fan forums creates opportunities and tensions in how they conceive of their audiences and how they choose to perform their identities online.

Research Methods

Seeing as how our final project is a narrative, I think our research options are endless. We can combine background information from each session with (possible) interviews from the speakers. Also, we can talk to other students and audience members to get their opinions. We can also use the personal experiences of the central narrator, who is yet to be chosen. So while this may seem broad, we have many ways to gather information.

Multi-media in the Classroom

tjraehl — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:13:14 +0000

With children as young as 5 or 6 becoming affluent in technology, what is the furure of multmodal composition and texts within the classroom in the near future, specifically in the K-12 range?

Awesome Pop-Warner football play

tjraehl — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:42:51 +0000

Awesome!

Hello world!

tjraehl — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:11:14 +0000

Hey

I am 21 years old and a first time blogger, so this is definitely a new and somewhat unnerving experience for me. Hopefully, with practice, I can learn the nuances and hallmarks that make a good blogger.

Stay tuned…