Students in my Technologies and the Future of Writing module of Introduction to Writing Arts are designing their own information ecologies. These ecologies are comprised of: their own spaces on the Rowan University servers a collaborative blog hosted by WordPress a netvibes.com ecosystem a social bookmarking site (delicious or diigo) The main question they…
Several weeks ago I downloaded a screen and video capture tool called Jing after reading about it on Jeff VanDrimmelen’s Educause blog. I thought I would use it to create instructional videos for my students who were having trouble following the school’s online instructions for connecting to the school servers from home. This weekend…
I’m in a unique situation this semester, as all of my classes are team-taught: 2 sections of Sophomore Engineering Clinic, a second-year writing course for engineering students, is taught by 3 Writing Arts and 5 Engineering faculty; and 1 section of Intro to Writing Arts, required for all majors, is taught with Writing Arts…