Bill Wolff, PhD

Associate Professor, Communication, Film, and Journalism, Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA

Bill

  • possible collaborative writing assignment for grad class

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    Bill

    This semester in Writing for Electronic Communities I would like to try a collaborative writing assignment that uses a wiki or GoogleDocs. I’ve never done a collaborative writing assignment before. The assignment would have the following goals: introduce students to wikis and/or Google Docs as a collaborative writing space as distinguished from blogging and…

  • possible texts for “writing for electronic communities”

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    Bill

    Last December or January I posted a note to Facebook listing possible texts for my upcoming gradurate course, Information Arcgitecture, asking friends for comments and suggestions. I got great feedback, but because I am no longer using Facebook, I decided to try the same here. Writing for Electronic Communities meets once a week for…

  • sunday, june 28, 2009: a day in photographs

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    Bill

    I got up around 6:00am today (quite early for me) with a strong desire to take lots of photographs. So, that’s what I did—and I’m quiet pleased with how many of them turned out. This is nice; I haven’t been happy with the results of my last two or three outings. I think the…

  • taking portraits on the street

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    Bill

    Wired.com posted this video of photographer Clay Enos explaining how he takes portraits of random people on the street using just a white sheet of paper, his camera, and some chutzpah. One thing he doesn’t address is if he lets the people know where they might be able to see the image at a…