Date / Time:Friday, December 4, 2009, 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

Place: 144 P/K Library (Simons Room)

The third presentation in our 2009-2010 series focuses on ways to help students bridge the gap between old media forms and new ones, improving reading, writing and critical thinking in multiple domains.

Lisa Maruca will describe how her students use digital tools such as blogging, YouTube, and online archives to investigate the history of literacy and technology. She will also discuss mentoring undergraduate students through and about new media.

Jim Brown will discuss a course he is teaching this semester entitled "Anthologics." Across the university, we teach students to enter various ongoing textual conversations by having them summarize, analyze, and engage with arguments. In this class students use a variety of media tools to learn two variations on this theme. First they compile a database of resources, creating their own anthologies as a way of making sense of that database. Next, they create a video mashup by collecting materials from YouTube and recombining those materials in a new way.

Jeff Pruchnic and Jill Morris, will explain the English Department's ongoing Undergraduate Digital Literacy Initiative (DLI). After Pruchnic briefly reviews how the department has defined digital literacy and integrated DLI projects into courses across the curriculum, Morris will demo a recent assignment in video composition and digital editing.

To register, access the Pipeline registration system through either the Faculty or the Employee tabs or contact: Shari Robinson-Lynk at 313-577-5605 or ShariLynn@wayne.edu.