Thesis: Text messaging utilized as collegiate instructional communication creates new avenues of positive “Foucaudian” power-play, empowering both students and their professor resulting in an increase of community, collaboration, and free-thinking in the college composition classroom.
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Prezi
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www.prezi.com
Text Messaging
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Teachers begin using cell phones for class lessons by AP: Yahoo! Tech
Literacy Games
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After considering the latest class chat on rhetorix about gaming and the articles “Learning and Games,”by James Paul Gee and “Productive Gaming: The Case for Historiographic Game Play,” by Kurt Squire and Shree Durga, I put more score on the…
Literacy, Artifact, and the Brownie
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In my library on the top of one of my shelves sits a humble display of media nostalgia. The Royal typewriter reminds me of my mom working hard at home while my sisters were in school typing income tax returns…
We’rrrre off…
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Even today, the old adage “What goes around comes around” is alive and well. Or, wait, maybe its “Cheaters never prosper”…? When it comes to Mirko Tobias Schäfer’s article “Participation Inside,” it seems once more that civil disobedience just doesn’t…
He Who Has the Most Time Wins
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Although argued that technological access should be free and available to all, a newer round of hype concerning the economic distancing of upper and lower classes in society involves computer literacy. Ellen Seiter’s “Practicing at Home: Computers, Pianos, and Cultural…
Electronic Portfolio
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http://rhetdezigner.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/electronic-portfolio.pdf or here is the link to the CSTAN page http://www.csustan.edu/agstudies/internships.html
Scouting Report: Electronic Portfolio, a Call to Action Realized
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One of the “hot topics” at the Computers and Writing Conference at UC Davis that I attended this past June surrounded the idea of “electronic portfolios.” The concept made total sense to me. This definitely will be the future status of…
Perception, Misconception, Deception
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“Young People, Ethics, and the New Digital Media: A Synthesis from the Good Play Project” argues that five key issues are at stake in the new media, including identity, privacy, ownership and authorship, credibility, and participation. While all issues contain…