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Using Inform7 to Make Procedural Arguments

Submitted by King on Mon, 04/16/2012 - 11:03
Interactive fiction project using Inform7 focusing on environmental issues.

My students had been studying communities of their choice all semester. For the last unit, I asked them to contribute their perspective on their communities in two ways: first, in a more traditional editorial-length argument, and then through an interactive, procedural text using Inform7.

Logically Looking for the Perfect Beat

Submitted by Cowan on Fri, 03/07/2014 - 13:41
Boombox

In this assignment, students learn to identify the objective musical elements that make up their favorite songs — and then become personal Pandoras for their peers.

Diagnosing Digital Literacy via Student-generated Avatars

Submitted by Scott Nelson on Mon, 06/11/2012 - 16:04
class avatars

This assignment is purposefully simple because its serves as a diagnostic for students' levels of functional digital literacy in programs like Photoshop and Jing. It also serves to familiarize some students with these programs, and with the processes necessary for maintaining their class blogs.

Fostering a Feminist Classroom Climate

Submitted by Wise on Wed, 10/01/2014 - 13:35
Whiteboard with brainstormed text about what makes a class successful

In this icebreaking activity, students think-pair-share on the question "What makes a class a success?" This gives them the opportunity to meet a new classmate and contribute to setting the classroom tone for the semester ahead.

Bridging Summary and Analysis with Standup Clips

Submitted by Plourde on Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:51
Aziz Ansari Comedy Poster

This assignment uses clips from standup comedy specials to hone student skills of summary and synethesis, for the controversy map essay assignment.

Using Juxta to Compare Editions

Submitted by nhgray on Sat, 10/27/2012 - 14:47
Manuscript Revision

This lesson plan prompts students to use Juxta (collation software) to compare different witnesses or instances of a text.  Students compare multiple versions of a literary work, locating revisions in order to discuss word choice and textual instabilities.  Most useful for literary works with full-text editions available online. 

Research and Descriptive Reading - Visual Analysis

Submitted by Mercier on Wed, 03/27/2013 - 14:29
Eustace Tilley Mosaic

This plan puts student into groups of three or four and asks them to collaborate on generating a coherent analytical reading of a New Yorker cover image. The students present their readings to the class and then trade images and present a re-reading.

Procedural Enthymeme with Inform7

Submitted by OyP on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 17:30
Screenshot of Inform7 Interface

Even though we use enthymemes in our everyday speech, teaching the concept presents difficulties. By making enthymemes in the interactive fiction design system Inform7, students develop a deep understanding of implied reasoning.

Teaching Kairos through Internet Memes

Submitted by sussman on Wed, 10/02/2013 - 15:16

In this lesson, students in my visual rhetoric class, "The Rhetoric of Photography," look at internet memes in multiple contexts as part of our unit on kairos. 

Twitter in the Classroom: Observations and Analysis

Submitted by King on Tue, 04/24/2012 - 11:10
My class used Twitter for a few general purposes & for two specific assigments

My class used Twitter for a few general purposes and then for two specific assignments. For our general goals, we used Twitter to share resources among one another and to familiarize ourselves with various conversations that are important to people in the digital humanities.

Teaching Rhetorical Pathos through Playlists

Submitted by Streusand on Fri, 03/07/2014 - 16:06

A fun way to teach students the power of rhetorical pathos using multiple media. Students create Spotify playlists to accompany a short persuasive essay on a topic of their choice.

Becoming-Imperceptible, or How to Disappear Completely

Submitted by Hoag on Tue, 06/12/2012 - 08:58
Teach students about managing their online presence

In this assignment, students learn about the importance of protecting their information and image online, and in turn, take measures to delete themselves from the myraid places where they are visible/vulnerable.

Advertising Agency

Submitted by Cowan on Mon, 09/29/2014 - 15:13
Agency

Help your students realize when they're being advertised to by helping them turn the tables on the Don Drapers of the Internet.

Using MASS EFFECT 1 to Teach “Critical Situations”

Submitted by OyP on Thu, 09/06/2012 - 12:14
Three characters converse using the dialogue wheel in Mass Effect One

This lesson plan uses the interactive video game Mass Effect 1 (BioWare, 2007 for XBOX 360) to teach students about making situated speech acts that effectively address a certain audience in a particular rhetorical situation.

Words in Motion: Kairos and Kinetic Typography

Submitted by Amy Tuttle on Tue, 02/24/2015 - 15:51
Kinetic Typography

Kinetic typography is an animation technique that allows writers to mix text and motion. Students will take part of a speech or a piece of dialogue and animate it, carefully considering how they might visually enforce and/or subvert the text's underlying themes.

Using an Annotated Bibliography to Teach Basic Research Skills

Submitted by Voss on Thu, 11/01/2012 - 14:05
an actual annotated bibliography

In this assignment, students conduct research and build an annotated bibliography.

Writing Images as a Means to Writing with Images

Submitted by Bohmann on Mon, 04/08/2013 - 11:08

Students work in the visual medium to explore dimensions of associative image logic they can use in their persuasive written compositions. Ideally, the outcome will be a guiding image which helps arrange and focus their composition.

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