Writing a Blog for my Graduate Studies Course(s?)

Category WRT 614 Digital Rhetoric (Spring 2020)

Final Project: One-to-One Technology & Digital Literacies

If the past six weeks (as of the date I started to write this) have taught us anything, it is that children can learn through the use of technology, specifically portable digital devices. While many parents are complaining about “homeschooling”… Continue Reading →

Module 3: Bodies, Interrupted

     I may have mentioned in one of my previous posts that I am not a “gamer” by any means. I used to watch my husband play Call of Duty on our Xbox 360 – until I got bored… Continue Reading →

Module 7: Educational Applications

These are all programs that have been designed to better the educational experiences of children – more specifically with learning how to read. I have personal experience with all of these. The three years that I taught fourth grade at… Continue Reading →

Module 5: Digital Narratives & Storytelling

I am a voracious reader. I read multiple genres (in order of amount): crime fiction, fantasy, science fiction, romance, and nonfiction. I had never even heard of unfiction before the reading and video assignments for this module. It also seems… Continue Reading →

Social Distancing?

  In this day and age of technology and social media, I think we need to change the term to “physical distancing”. Social distancing implies that we do not have communicable contact with others. With social media, this is near… Continue Reading →

Module 4: Memes and Cultural Literacies

     We all want to be a part of something; we want to belong to a group that shares the same values and morals as we, individually, have and believe in. It’s human nature to want that; we are… Continue Reading →

Module 2: Multimodality & Remediation

Imagine, if you will, sitting at a computer terminal with a notebook next to the keyboard. The notebook contains a list of queries required to achieve a specific response from a particular location. The background color of the screen is… Continue Reading →

Let the fun begin!

Never in a million years did I think that I would be writing a blog. Long ago, I thought of bloggers as people who simply shared too much information about themselves in a narcissistic manner with the rest of the… Continue Reading →

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