BE: Composing the Digital Self

In class on Thursday…
We discussed equipment and online system for reservations available through the DLC – though we (I) did learn that it took a phone call to reserve a laptop.  I’ll mention again that the DLC is the place to go for hardware and software concerns as they relate to coursework on campus.  We [...]

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We’ll be learning more about “wikis” in just a couple of weeks, but for those who would like to take a look ahead, I encourage you to visit PBWiki this evening, sign up, and publish a writing about PBWiki before midnight tonight. According to the promotion, those who link to PBWiki before the midnight [...]

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On Monday we opened the door to Flickr – currently the most popular photo community online, we played a bit with Fastr, and we opened a door into social bookmarking with del.icio.us. I encourage you to practice composing yourselves in the communities you’ll find there: visit the photo collections of others, leave comments, upload [...]

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Folks, just a reminder: I should have received two URLs from each of you – one for del.icio.us and one for your Flickr account. Check your outgoing email to confirm sending the links. It is to your advantage that I have this information; if I can see your work online, I am more [...]

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By now, most of you have a good start on your list of ten “rules” against which you will check your writing before you send it into the public. Right? Well, in class on Thursday we practiced with our sets of rules. Those of you who might be looking for a writing [...]

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Because class discussion ran a bit thin on John Deely Brown and Paul Duguid reading, I thought I’d post a few of the not-to-miss highlights from this very important assignment. If you have not completed the reading, let me encourage you again to do so. I count this article as among the most [...]

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Lab on Tuesday addressed creating titles for your webpage composition, inserting images, and creating rollovers – all very cool stuff. Thanks again to James for his introduction to the technology behind the scenes, but do remember that “composing” a web page reaches beyond managing the technology to considerations of audience, purpose, and the conventions [...]

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Thursday, 6 Feb 2006: Technorati was the topic of the day, and discussion focused on the contribution to be made toward researching by using online applications such as Technorati, Alexa, and PubSub as sources of information for validating and/or substantiating information from online sources. We talked about “tags” and “tagging” last Thursday and again [...]

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We covered a number of items during last Thursday’s class discussion that spoke directly to your writing. I thought I’d post a number of them here as a reminder and as an assistance to those working to improve their writing. Here are some of the highlights:

PROOFREAD by reading aloud. Many errors left [...]

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