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web 2.0 storytelling
Alan Levine claims that a Web 2.0 story “consists of more than one type of media (images + text, audio + images, etc) that are assembled on the web, and can be presented on the web or embedded into...
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notes on blogs and flogs
Blogs The word “blog” comes from the combination of web log. The blog was the first important Web 2.0 application. Blogs are online diaries or journals. They share some aspects of newspapers and many...
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in-class writing: flogs
Read/browse one of the flogs assigned for this week. The links are below. Then write a paragraph of 3-5 sentences, briefly describing the work and then responding to one of the prompts below. Please...
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group exercise: flogs
For your group activity, you will build upon your in-class writing exercise. As a group, choose one of the flogs assigned for this week, discuss it, and then write up your findings, by which I mean...
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critical analysis prompts: flogs and facebook
These prompts draw from two lecture blog entries, one of which you may not have seen yet. Here are the two lectures: “web 2.0 storytelling and flogs” “notes on avatars and facebook fictions” * * * 1....
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final project prompt
For your class semester project, due May 12 at 11:59pm, you will create a work of digital literature, including a reflection on your creative process in the context of things we have discussed in...
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notes on wikis
Most of the following notes are taken from (the assigned reading) “Teaching and Learning Online with Wikis” by Naomi Augar, Ruth Raitman, and Wanlei Zhou, at this URL:...
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notes on fact vs. fiction in web 2.0 digital literature
As we have witnessed and discussed in this class, the line between fact and fiction online is blurry. Some take advantage of this situation in malicious ways: scamming and spamming people, taking over...
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in-class writing: semester project
For our in-class writing assignment for today, I’d like you to sketch out some ideas concerning your semester project, due May 12. Post your writing on your personal blog. You can still use it as the...
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critical analysis prompts: fiction wikis
The prompts below are drawn from my lectures notes for this week: “notes on wikis” http://engl295umd.wordpress.com/2013/04/16/lecture-notes-on-wikis/ “notes on fact vs. fiction in web 2.0 digital...
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in-class writing: online comics
As usual, for the in-class writing assignment you will be writing a paragraph of 4-6 sentences, which you will post on your own blog. 1. Review ONE online comic from the reading assignment posted at...
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group exercise: online comics
We will be doing our group activity online today. This assignment has two parts. 1. At some point today, you will go to the blog of one of your classmates and leave a comment on his or her entry for...
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online comics and digital literature
History of Comics Earlier in the semester we took a look at the work of William Blake, a British poet of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. If you will recall, Blake’s books had both text and...
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critical analysis prompts: online comics
The critical analysis prompts for this week are largely drawn from my lecture notes on online comics: Choose one of the prompts below for your argument paragraph (paragraph #2) of your blog response...
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notes on the canon
George Landow notes that “the American Heritage Dictionary has eleven separate definitions of the term canon, the most relevant of which is ‘an authoritative list, as of the works of an author’ and ‘a...
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notes on the future of writing and reading
We began this semester talking about the print book as a form of reading technology. We end the semester reflecting on the fate of the print book in a digital world. Critics have been predicting the...
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in-class writing: future of digilit
As usual, for the in-class writing assignment you will be writing a paragraph of 4-6 sentences, which you will post on your own blog. This is the topic: What is the fate of writing and reading in the...
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group exercise: future of digilit
For your group exercise for today you will do some canonizing. Choose five works from the course syllabus that you should be part of the digital literature canon and, in one or two sentences, justify...
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critical analysis prompts: future of digilit
As always, choose one of the prompts below as the topic for your argument paragraph (paragraph #2 of the blog response post assignment). All the prompts are taken from the two lecture notes entries (on...
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final exam study guide
The final exam for this course will be Thursday May 16 from 8am-10am. Like the midterm, it will be a “stay-at-home” essay exam. That is, you will take the exam from home (or wherever you have computer...
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