(Multi)Modality Cheryl Ball and Colin Charlton, in their encyclopedia-like entry in Naming What We Know, state that "all writing is multimodal" (2015). Further, rhetoric and composition’s historic approach to the teaching of writing has almost always included the production of multimodal texts. This understanding can be traced from classical rhetorical studies of effective speech design including … Continue reading Persuasive-Pervasive Composing: Multimodality, Virtual Reality, and Google Cardboard

In the advent of digital innovations and the rise of interdependency in research, scholarly activities are becoming increasingly collaborative. It is not uncommon to find students, faculty members, staff, and administrators working together via face-to-face as well as online methods. Since moving to the University of Minnesota, my collaborative work has been largely facilitated by cloud … Continue reading Digital Collaboration Etiquette: Three Tips

I have written previously about connected learning and how to create a PLN (Personal Learning Network). This kind of learning is learning-on-demand, and it’s an amazing place for students to be. Yet, students need to able to actively and critically locate and handle the information made available by the Internet and social technologies. One way of entering … Continue reading Network Visualization and Personal Learning Networks