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Courses can be inaccessible to students because of disabilities, but sometimes they’re inaccessible for less obvious reasons. Disabled students don’t always seek accommodations from the Disability Resource Center (DRC), and sometimes the accommodation requests that we receive aren’t applicable to the curriculum. For example, providing students with extra time…
Computers & … Professional and Technical Writing Computers and Writing, as a field and in its membership, has always had a strong connection to composition/rhetoric, even while our work has helped to make possible expanded notions of composition and what constitutes “writing” as taught in secondary and higher education contexts. Recently, the C&W community has…… Continue reading #cwcon16: townhall edition
This is my presentation for Computers & Writing (#cwcon) this year: “‘That Looks Like a Crazy Person Made It’: Embodying Madness through Multimodality.” *** The title of this presentation comes from the reaction that I received back in 2013 at CCCC in Las Vegas. I attended the “Evocative Objects” workshop, and it was the first…… Continue reading #cwcon16
So when we do listen to each other, it’s unbelievably important for us to really test our listening skills, to really use our bodies as a resonating chamber, to stop the judgment. —Evelyn Glennie, “How to Truly Listen” I was pumped to start off my reading list with Steph Ceraso’s College English piece, “(Re)Educating the Senses: Multimodal Listening,…… Continue reading Multimodal Listening
I figure this summer is the last one in a while that I’ll have lots of “free” time (in between prepping three courses, working on some new research, splashing around in CNY lakes with Q dog, and packing and moving down South), so I’m putting together a reading list of all the things I’ve been wanting…… Continue reading Summer Reading List 2015
I got bogged down last week trying to get a webtext ready for submission, so this is a late contribution to my annotated bib series. I was so excited for this piece to come out in Kairos and find myself quoting it for one reason or another in almost everything I do. This is by…… Continue reading Multimodality in Motion: Disability & Kairotic Space
This is the presentation I’m giving at C’s this year (today! B.30), part of a larger panel titled “Critical Disability Pedagogies: Hacking the Curriculum, Rewriting Spaces.” *** “Dis/Ability as Inquiry: Hacking the Fixed Curriculum” Although there are benefits to a shared, fixed curriculum, it can sometimes butt heads with the values and needs of the…… Continue reading #4c14
Inspired by the workshop I attended at 4Cs, I knew I wanted to incorporate a multimodal workshop into my classroom during the last unit. In the last unit of our standard curriculum, we do a translation project that visually (and digitally) translates the final essay. It felt weird to put those constraints on the assignment, though, particularly because…… Continue reading Multimodal “Craft” Workshop
Yesterday, some of the This Rhetorical Life podcast crew presented at the 2013 SUNY Council on Writing (COW) Annual Conference about the podcast’s founding while raising critical questions about what the medium can mean for the future of the discipline. I started with a discussion of how podcasts take up and complicate calls for multimodal…… Continue reading SUNY COW 2013
This morning, I attended the workshop “Evocative Objects: Re-imaging the Possibilities of Multimodal Composition led by Jody Shipka, Erin Anderson, Kerry Banazek, and Amber Buck. Here is the workshop’s pitch: The workshop challenges the common tendency to conflate multimodality with digital media in the larger field of composition. Indeed, when they are considered at all,…… Continue reading Evocative Objects Workshop #4c13
