This page contains a sampling of exemplary multimodal projects my graduate and undergraduate students have completed since I joined the Rowan faculty in 2006.
The showcase currently includes Audio Stories, Video Stories of Change, Video Mashups, Oral History Videos, “The One” Videos, Photo Essays, Atlases, Generative Poems, Pecha Kuchas, and links to collaborative student blogs.
More will be added over time.
Last updated 3 March 2016.
Audio Stories
The audio stories embedded below are from the fall 2015 section of Digital Storytelling. They were completed for an Audio Assignment.
Video Stories of Change
The videos included below are from the fall 2015 section of Digital Storytelling. They were completed for a Stories of Change assignment.
Steven S., #digf15
Dan J., #digf15
Imani B., #digf15
Video Mashups
The playlist embedded below contains selected video mashups created by students from multiple sections the upper-level undergraduate course, Writing, Research, and Technology, and the graduate course, Visual Rhetoric and Multimodal Composition. Please see the most recent version of the Video Mashup assignment (fall 2014).
Oral History Videos
The playlist embedded below contains selected oral history videos created by students from the upper-level undergraduate course, Writing, Research, and Technology. Please see the most recent version of the Oral History Video assignment (fall 2010).
“The One” Videos
The playlist embedded below contains selected “The One” videos created by students from the upper-level undergraduate course, Writing, Research, and Technology. In this assignment, students using Flip video cameras recorded one-question interviews with random people and then created a short video of the responses. Please see the most recent version of the The One Video assignment (spring 2010).
Photo Essays
The selected photo essays depicted below were created and posted to Issuu.com by students from multiple sections the upper-level undergraduate course, Writing, Research, and Technology, and the graduate course, Visual Rhetoric and Multimodal Composition. Please see the most recent version of the Photo Essay assignment (fall 2014).
Atlases
The selected Atlases depicted below were created and posted to Issuu.com by students from multiple sections the graduate course, Visual Rhetoric and Multimodal Composition. Please see the most recent version of the Atlas assignment (fall 2014).
Generative Poems
The selected Generative Poems presented below were created by students in the graduate course, Information Architecture. Please see the most recent version of the Generative Poem assignment (spring 2013). Generative Poems are composed using HTML and Javascript to create a poem that writes itself continuously. The poem is different each time it is played. Click on the screen shot to see each poem appear. Click on the author to read a brief rationale for the poem.
Transform, Girl by Devon Walder
Tomahawk Girl by Wayne Stainrook
Topaz Galaxies by Christen Otter
Pecha Kuchas on Twitter Hashtag Studies
The selected Pecha Kuchas presented below were created by students in the graduate course, Writing for Electronic Communities. In the Pecha Kuchas, students discuss their semester-long studies of a particular Twitter hashtag. Please see the most recent version of the Pecha Kucha assignment (spring 2013).
Rowan Internship and Outreach Team (RIOT)
In spring 2010 semester I oversaw a semester-long internship of 11 undergraduate students who began to design the social media presence for a family-owned business, Sturtz Construction and Design.
Collaborative Student Blogs
- Blogging is the New Black (Writing, Research, Technology, fall 2014)
- Don’t Worry, Be Mappy (Visual Rhetoric and Multimodal Composition, spring 2014)
- Rummage This (Writing for Electronic Communities, fall 2013)
- Raiders of the Lost Architecture (Information Architecture, spring 2013)
- Textual Arousal (Writing, Research, and Technology, fall 2012)
- Let’s Get Visual, Visual! (Visual Rhetoric and Multimodal Composition, spring 2012)