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Four days until I have to turn in a course description for the WRT302 course
\nI’m teaching in the fall. Here’s what I’ve come up with so far, keeping as much
\nas possible with the official
\ncourse description<\/a>.<\/p>\n

WRT302: Advanced Writing Studio: Digital Writing
\n With the shift from writing the page to writing the screen we encounter both
\n expanded possibilities and new responsibilities for assembling images, text, audio and
\n video.  In WRT302, we will compose new media texts while engaging issues at
\n the crossroads of writing activity and specific digital technologies.  The
\n course will balance experimentation and application with conceptual
\n approaches; in addition to reading about and exploring online tools, students
\n will propose and develop a series of projects that extend from our
\n investigations of specific sites and applications, including simple web pages, weblogs, wikis, podcasts, video, and tag-based systems such as Flickr and
\n del.icio.us.  Opening lines of inquiry involve the following questions:  What
\n is gained and lost in the transition from the page to the screen? What are the
\n practices and techniques we might associate with digital writing? How do
\n digital texts circulate? How are they read<\/i> and by whom? How are acts of
\n digital writing implicated with choices about navigation, links, and code?
\n This course will also foreground invention, design, usability and
\n accessibility.  All students are encouraged to enroll. No previous
\n experience with computers is required; however, some familiarity with basic
\n uses of technology will be helpful. Email dmueller -at- syr.edu for more information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I welcome all critique and insight. I’m hesitant to include the phrase "new
\nresponsibilities" in the first sentence.  The final point about previous
\nexperience is messy, too.  Is it common to be explicit about experience with
\ntechnologies going into a course like this one? I haven’t committed to any readings
\nyet, but I have a few highly-probables, and I’ve ordered a desk copy of
\n
\nthis techxbook<\/a>, fresh off the press.  The projects, too, will have to be only
\nprovisionally defined\/outlined because I won’t know the ease-with-tech felt by
\nthe students until I meet them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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