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New Media in the Classroom. Digital Collaboration and the Writing S tudent. A Few Useful Terms. Multimodal( ity ) – Originally a digital term; having/using multiple means of “input” and “output” of data (or, in writing, meaning).
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New Media in the Classroom Digital Collaboration and the Writing Student
A Few Useful Terms • Multimodal(ity) – Originally a digital term; having/using multiple means of “input” and “output” of data (or, in writing, meaning). • Digital Literacy – The ability to create, or derive meaning using digital tools. • Digital Rhetoric – The redefinition of rhetorical conventions and their adaptation to digital meaning.
A Few Helpful Texts • Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition (by Anne Wysocki) • Collaborative Approaches to the Digital in English Studies (Ed. Laura McGrath) • The New Work of Composing (ed. Debra Journet, Cheryl Ball, Ryan Trauman)
Genres [Tools] • Blogging • Online Forums • Wikis • Social Networking • Open e-Texts • Etc.
Benefits • Accessibility • Authority • Innovation • Flexibility • Publicity
Further Scholarship • C&C Digital Press • Computers and Composition • CCCC • Writing Commons • Etc.
Works Cited • Ball, Charyl, Debra Journet, and Ryan Trauman, ed. The New Work of Composing. Logan: Utah State UP, 2012. Web. • McGrath, Laura, ed. Collaborative Approaches to the Digital in English Studies. Logan: Utah State UP, 2011. Web. • “New Media." Writing Commons. n.p., n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2012. • Wysocki, Anne. Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Logan: Utah State UP, 2004. Print.