New Media in the Classroom

New Media in the ClassroomDigital 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.