Monthly Archives: August 2014

New Media Production Week 1

Posted on August 28, 2014 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Welcome! Syllabus! Project One Make me a MEmorial that is not a memorial. Media/Requirements: HTML and CSS. Multiple pages. Images (probably altered with Photoshop). Perhaps video clips. Links. Scraps. Quirkiness. ATH. Abject. Due Date: Sept. 19th / We will view/traverse/experience … Continue reading →

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Rhetoric & Gaming Week 1 / Class 2

Posted on August 27, 2014 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today we need to: Twitter 101 Talk about Ebert Talk about games and the Canon Provide preface to Aristotle’s Poetics Introduce Google Docs for the Gaming Journal Twitter 101 The #, the @, and the DM Ebert: Focusing on his … Continue reading →

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A Basic Introduction to Twitter

Posted on August 26, 2014 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

If you are reading this, then you are likely signed up for one of my courses in USF’s undergraduate Professional Writing, Rhetoric, and Technology major. I am requiring you to use Twitter for the semester in some fashion. I want … Continue reading →

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Rhetoric & Gaming – Introduction

Posted on August 26, 2014 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Week One / Class One Look, we’re in the news! Let’s go over the syllabus. Let’s talk about video games a bit. And let’s introduce the first project. I will do this by asking something(s) that has nothing to do … Continue reading →

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Speculative Rhetorics CCCC’s Proposal

Posted on August 21, 2014 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Below is a copy of a CCCC’s panel proposal by David Grant, Brooke Rollins, Nathaniel Rivers, and myself. I share this here specifically for my upcoming New Media Production seminar, to show them how digital pedagogy can be developed and … Continue reading →

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Expository Writing: Peer Review

Posted on August 4, 2014 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today I’ll be asking you to read and respond to each other’s work. You will be working in pairs of two. I want you to provide constructive feedback to author’s as they revise their paper. So, for each paper, please: … Continue reading →

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Expository Writing: Argumentation and APA Format

Posted on August 1, 2014 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

So today I want to spend some time on two different topics. The first should apply to everyone; the second to those people working with APA formatting (as opposed to MLA formatting) for their final papers.  A Quick Primer on … Continue reading →

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