Last Friday the DWC hosted a workshop Writing for the Web: Pedagogical and Professional Considerations. Issues discussed included making a professional web site for the academic job search, using web sites for course syllabi, integrating web authoring in first-year writing courses, technologies for creating web sites (including free, online sites such as Weebly, Webs, and Google Sites), and resources to help with web authoring.

Here is a link to the PDF of the workshop handout web_workshop_11-6-09.

Sophie–free ebook, media software

For those considering multimedia projects for English 112 or for those who simply want a multimedia platform for their own digital writing, you might consider Sophie. Some of you have worked with Sophie–the open-source software that allows for easy integration of text and media and is designed for creating ebooks. Anyway, I just saw on techrhet that Sophie 2.0 is going to be released Nov. 15 and it will be web-based so it will work on the internet and will not require downloading a special reader. More information is here:
http://www.sophieproject.org/

For those working with digital poetry Sophie could be particularly useful.

Heidi

Michael Wesch speaks Nov. 20 at Miami

Michael Wesch, author of A Vision of Students Today and Web 2.0 The Machine is Us/ing US will present “The Art of Loving and Learning in New Media Environments” at Miami’s annual Lilly Conference on Friday, Nov. 20, 10:50-noon. Wesch is the keynote speaker for the conference!

For more on the conference: http://www.units.muohio.edu/lillycon/

For more on Wesch’s talk: http://celt.muohio.edu/lillycon/presenters.php?presenter=Wesch,+Michael

Blogging and Web Design for the Composition Classroom: Part I

A workshop facilitated by Dom Ashby

Dom provided an incredibly detailed handout available here wordpress workshop nov 09

Issues covered in the workshop and discussed in detail on the handout include:

–How to get a wordpress account
–Why use blogs in the classroom?
–Genres of blogs and samples
–Helpful tips for working with wordpress.com
–Embedding media in wordpress.com
–Embedding pdfs (and word docs) in wordpress.com using scribd.com