Meeting times: 10:00-11:00 a.m.
143 McGaw Hall.
Friday, January 20th:
- Planning for WQ
- Discussion item: “themes” and metaphors in student digital portfolios
Friday, February 3rd:
Friday, February 17th:
- Reading: Randall McClure: “WritingResearchWriting: The Semantic Web and the Future of the Research Project.” Computers and Composition. Volume 28, Issue 4, December 2011, Pages 315–326. [Direct DePaul Library link].
- Overview of the “curated model” of student digital portfolios in Digication
Friday, March 2nd:
- Reading: We’ll be discussing Dennis Baron’s “From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technology”
- Activity: Alternatives to the image-editing program Picnik, which is closing down —
Friday, March 16th:
- DePaul E-Portfolio Community Meeting 9:30-11am, Levan (2322 N. Kenmore) room 307
Friday, April 20th:
- 2012 DePaul Faculty Teaching & Learning Conference
April 20th, 9:00am-5:00pm
DePaul Center, 8th Floor Conference Center
Friday, April 27th
- Zac Brenner: Workshop on dig.ccmixter — Creative-Commons licensed music
- Reading: “Computers and Composition 20/20: A Conversation Piece, or What Some Very Smart People Have to Say about the Future” — Computers & Composition 28 (2011) 327–34.
- Working with generative discussion-forum posts and online conversations: posts should help move the discussion along and should generatively include one of the following:
- Additional ideas and sources
- Insights or questions about classmates’ comments
- Connections to the course readings
- Explanation of how one can apply course learnings to their own personal or professional life
Alternative model on generative ideas:
- Perspectives: provide your perspective
- Ideas: add additional ideas
- Examples: provide examples to support your idea
- Questions: ask follow-up questions
Friday, May 18th
- Monica Westin will be joining us to show us how she’s been using Digication in her New Media Studies course; she has developed a creative use of the platform where topics are developed in one course, and live on in productive ways for subsequent courses. She’s also preparing students for “Digital Museums and Archives” that they will be putting on at the DePaul Art Museum during finals week.
- Hackasaurus and Kompozer for remix projects
Friday, June 1st
- At our final meeting, for those of you interested in developing a photo-essay assignment with a multimodal emphasis for your Autumn 2012 courses, we will [1] compose an assignment together [2] complete the assignment ourselves over the summer, and [3] present them at our first D-WRD meeting of the AQ.