Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Internet writing is important

PowerPoint presentation

Skills: none
Concepts: data types, the importance of writing in the Internet era, types of Internet documents

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Writing tweets

PowerPoint presentation
Prerequisite topic module
Prerequisite topic module

Assignment
Assignment

Skills: writing tweets
Concepts: application program interface (API), ecosystem, Twitter as a platform for developing applications

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Reading and writing on the Internet

PowerPoint presentation
Assignment

Skills: none
Concepts: text as a data type, writing is important, common types of writing, good writing requires mindful reading, using the Internet may be changing our brains


Thursday, October 14, 2010

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Collaborative writing

PowerPoint presentation
Presentation video
Prerequisite topic module
Prerequisite topic module
Prerequisite topic module
Assignment
Assignment
Assignment

Skills: organizing and starting a collaborative writing project
Concepts: compiled versus co-authored documents, structured versus unstructured data, synchronous and asynchronous collaborative writing tools, Doug Engelbart’s contribution

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Conversational writing

Concepts: the importance of conversational writing, the formal nature of conversational writing, synchronous versus asynchronous applications

Monday, September 13, 2010

Zen and the art of Internet reading

PowerPoint presentation
Presentation transcript
Presentation video
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Assignment
Assignment
Assignment
Assignment
Assignment

Skills: mindful reading
Concepts: Internet reading is superficial, good writing requires mindful reading, the Internet and other media change our brains (for better and worse)

Writing for the Internet

PowerPoint presentation*
Presentation video

Skills: none
Concepts: importance, frequency, quality and types of Internet writing, text as a data type