I think I am going to slowing transfer all the posting over. Part of that activity will get me familiar with my new system as well as how I decide to divvy up the site!

I wish my students had been there to participate in this event. It was a wonderful lesson on the power of adjectivals. All of the different detailed descriptors about the noun “boyfriend” made it appear that there were many more boyfriends in play. Buy splitting up the telling of the adjectivals we slowly built a very multi-faceted understanding of this individual.

Enough of being a word/communication geek!

• http://kairosnews.org/open-source-cccc
• http://wrecking.org/write/index.php?title=Workshop_on_FLOSS 

The other stall had a loop and hook setup that looked like it could hold together a truck and trailor hitching. For more pics from the Cass Cafe, and one of its “tame” pieces of art, check out my flickr site.

I’m excited to see these types of tools and “official” activities to engage students in multimodal competitions. I think traditional humanities instructors need to learn from these examples to help make connections to their contemporary students. For example, I love showing The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to my intro to film students and then show Rob Zombie’s music video for “Living Dead Girl.” Being able to discuss how and why he did this gets students to think about why knowing the history of horror films is important to Rob Zombie, both as a musician and a filmmaker.

Ultimately, this gets me thinking about how I’m about to start teaching my early American literature survey class. I was already planning on using wikis to have students publish their reports and interpretations about the material they read; however, I’m not thinking it might be useful to have them really think about the work rhetorically. What was the purpose for some of these early American writers. If they had the same purpose today, what different modes of media might they write and publish in? Why? How would it fit their purpose and audience needs? Could be fun!

Thanks to a Webware post for prompting this post!

1. when you name them, they live up to their names (and yes, mini-me has lived up to her name as well…we’re currently taking over the world from the local Irish pub)
2. RedSeven rocks! If you are in the phoenix area and you need PC help…RedSeven is the place to go.

Hopefully I’ll get a few blogs out this weekend…I’ve got a few new techs I want to play with!

2view is another tool that allows you to annotated pictures…besides those in flickr. I’ve used 2view to annotated this same picture. I think that 2view allows you to somehow incorporate the script for the annotations into your own posting of the picture (like in this blog); however, I didn’t quite figure it out. If someone else does, please reply below!

Now, this type of graphic annotating would be lovely if I was teaching anatomy; however, I can image using it on still images from a film to talk about a specific frame. Obviously, however, there are still copyright issues. Ideally these types of tools work best with images that you have copyright control over. Ahh…if I were teaching photography a tool like this could be used for a student to reflect on choices he or she made in the picture’s composition. Or it could be used by an instructor, or classmates, to give feedback on the same picture.

As I continue to agree with my rhetoric and composition colleagues who argue we need to be teaching multi-modal composition, finding tools like 2view and Slidez, an online slide show tool, gives me ideas on how to teach, assign, and provide critical feedback for multi-modal compositions.