Bill Wolff's Composing Spaces

wordles of the #on911 hashtag: a brief analysis

In this post I briefly analyze Wordles of the first 1123 tweets posted with the #on911 hashtag. The Wordles contain 1000, 100, 10, and 1 words.

the word TV as depicted in a one-word Wordle

what the web looked like on 9/11

This post showcases screen shots of news web sites I archived throughout the day on September 11, 2001. It also discuses a project I started when a grad student, "From Shock to Spectacle: Remediating the Terrorist Attack of September 11, 2001."

Screen shot of cnn.com on september 11, 2001, taken at 2:37 pm. The site has the heading, Test Story; Don't Publish.

6 recommendations for teaching with the flip video camera

This post describes how I integrated the Flip Video camera and related software applications into an undergraduate upper level writing course in spring 2009.

Screen shot of Bill in a YouTube video holding the Flip Video camera as he explains to the viewer the purpose of the class.

using twitter in the graduate classroom

Using Twitter reinforced my belief that micro-blogging is an important communication medium for burgeoning writers to understand it both theoretically and practically. For graduate students, this involves a thorough engagement with Twitter and the Twitter community.

Screen shot of Bill's students' Twitter discussion.

concerns about newsweek’s oprah cover photo

I am concerned about the kind of editing that might have taken place on this image to darken Oprah's skin and highlight shadows, just as we saw with images of OJ on Time and Newsweek

Side-by-side photos of Oprah, one a manipulated image that appeared on the Newsweek cover, the other the original

teaching students how to create meaningful tags

I have found that engaging students in the activity of creating and interpreting a tag cloud of one of their own posts is an effective way to introduce students to the concept of tagging.

Screen shot of three tag clouds, each one from different student blogs.

how to prevent and fix loss of recording time on a flip ultra videro camera

January 21, 2010

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As you know, students in my Writing, Research, and Technology sections are using Flip video cameras to create video oral histories and other short video essays. We are using Flip Ultra cameras (non-HD, model F260W), which has 60 minutes of record time. After the first semester of use (spring 2009), I noticed that several of [...]

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seaking rowan college of communication seniors for Spring 2010 project

December 17, 2009

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I am searching for College of Communication seniors with outstanding skills in the following areas: blogging (preferably Wordpress) and Twittering (and, perhaps, other social networking) web design documentary film production journalism (specifically, online journalism and press releases) pub layout and design Photoshop Students with these skills will be brought together to form a kind of social media team (name I’m [...]

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