Bill Wolff, PhD

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

teaching

  • 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…

  • 6 recommendations for teaching with the flip video camera

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    Bill

    In June 2008 I received a grant for 20 Flip Video Cameras (.pdf) to be used in one of the required courses in the Writing Arts undergraduate major at Rowan, “Writing, Research, and Technology.” The general goal of the course was to extend traditional conceptions of composition by applying it to the medium of…

  • using twitter in the graduate classroom

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    Bill

    There has been much discussion lately about how Twitter is being used in the undergraduate classroom. Daisy Pignetti describes how she used Twitter in 3 sections (2 online, 1 in person) of English 102 at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.  Monica Rankin discusses how she implemented what she has described as the “Twitter Experiment” into…