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.

Protected: using twitter in the graduate classroom–long version

June 25, 2010

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in honor of a great visit i share two of my (old) poems

June 14, 2010

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Yesterday I spent the day at Longwood Gardens and Simon Pearce glassworks with my wife, aunt, uncle, and two old friends, Maria and Norbert, from Germany. I hadn’t seen Maria and Norbert since 1995 when I met and stayed with them at their pastoral home in Voltlage, a quaint village near Osnabrück. My aunt was [...]

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four photos accepted to 2010 Holga Show

June 14, 2010

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I’m very excited to write that four of my photos have been selected to appear in The Holga Show (2010). The Holga Show is presented at the Saans Downtown gallery in Salt Lake City, Utah. This year’s show is curated by renowned Holga photographer, Céline Downen, and judged by Richard Floyd, Director of Collections Management [...]

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a year in the life of my flip video blog post

June 11, 2010

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A few evenings ago I was responding to two comments on my blog post, “6 recommendations for teaching with the flip video camera,” when I noticed that today would be exactly a year since I posted it (June 10, 2009, 3:32pm) and announced it with a tweet (June 10, 2009, 3:34 pm; if you [...]

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