In this activity, students remediate content originally published as a written text into an image or graphic for a social media platform such as Instagram.

Remediation assignments, which are especially popular in multimodal composition courses, task students with taking material presented in one medium, considering and preserving its essence,…[Read more]

The Creativity Matrix is a tool for students to define creativity on their own terms. It encourages them to articulate how they identify and/or perceive themselves as creative, and it creates space for articulating short- and long-term goals and ideal conditions for creating.

I created this resource to help students in my ENG-W171: Projects in Digital Literacy and Composition visualize at a glance how the digital skills they were learning were scaffolded. The Crescendo outlines the digital tools used to produce a set of deliverables, culminating in a carefully branded and curated portfolio at the end of the semester.…[Read more]

This activity, using the social annotation tool Hypothesis, encourages students to become more attentive readers and thoughtful collaborators.

As a digital humanities tool, corpus analysis allows students to visually map language use. Adopted as a tool for anti-racist pedagogy, corpus analysis allows us to recognize from a distance the role race plays in a given text, visualizing its prominences, patterns, and even silences. Because the tools used in corpus analysis strip context and…[Read more]

For this assignment, students imagine that they have been hired as graphic designers for a university press. Their first on-the-job assignment is to design a book cover (using Canva’s free book cover template, Microsoft Publisher, Google Slides, or Adobe Illustrator) for a new edition of the novel we are studying. There are two components to t…[Read more]

This active learning activity tasks students with both peer reviewing and revising essay introductions. In small groups, students move through multiple rounds as they comment on another group’s anonymized introductions. The Revising Introductions activity is an opportunity for students to practice identifying and constructively critiquing the…[Read more]