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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-27

Posted by Jen - 27/06/10 at 03:06:00 am

• RT @TheFrogBlog: @russeltarr A few postrs on recommended iPhone apps for science teaching and learning! http://tinyurl.com/3×7s73w #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-20

Posted by Jen - 20/06/10 at 03:06:00 am

• Just converted a #dmac2010 participant to @posterous. 2 hours of Wordpress fail -> 20 min of Posterous win. He says "I am finally happy" #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-13

Posted by Jen - 13/06/10 at 03:06:00 am

• Oooooooooooh, free 30-day trial for Flash Catalyst. Might have to try this for my DMAC proj then ask for a wee birthday gift… #dmac2010 #
• S. Dewitt presenting on OSU First-Year Comp curriculum. Magic words: "Timely, relevant, compelling." #dmac2010 #
• Hmm, just found out Flash Catalyst has $149 education price. Still pricey but better #dmac2010 #
• .@s2ceball also Weebly/Webs.com, wish we had Flash Catalyst too but it's $399 #dmac2010 #
• For DMAC'ers who use PPT, can use software package Articulate to convert it to Flash. Pricey but COOL http://bit.ly/daaw69 #dmac2010 #
• C. Selfe now talking about Literacy Narratives of Black Columbus proj from Winter '10 http://bit.ly/brLtYd #dmac2010 #
• .@selfe3 is displaying Dynamic of Blame diagram. That thing changed my whole attitude toward techrhet in '05. Good 2 see it again. #dmac2010 #
• I love listening to Brenda Brueggemann. She has the gift of gab. Her books have that same engaging, chatty intelligence. #dmac2010 #
• Really good site that compares various vid options, including Youtube/Vimeo/Blip.tv and others http://bit.ly/dpn1el #dmac2010 #
• C. Selfe "In what balance do we hold the aesthetic? Does it overwhelm the utilitarian, the argument, the persuasive task?" #dmac2010 #
• Interesting debate in the room: can s.t. be "rhetorically effective" but NOT be a good argument? #dmac2010 #
• RT @: #dmac2010 assesMent thing raises it's head [Love this, almost as much as I love the term silly-bus] #dmac2010 #
• File>Export 2 MP4, click "iTunes", click both "iPod 640×480 (4:3)" and "Deinterlace video." There R better ways but that's EZ way #dmac2010 #
• Given discush of Sophie vid issues, am re-plugging free MPEG Streamclip. See next Tweet for EZ settings http://bit.ly/9nSwIE #dmac2010 #
• Says to keep concepts/lessons learned from lit review, but don't put it in your first book. #dmac2010 #
• Debra Journet now chatting about seminar paper -> article. Hardest transition figuring out "Why would someone read this?" #dmac2010 #
• Joe Harris shows awesome mashup of Mahmamahna and "Pronouncing Pecha Kucha" http://bit.ly/bmWJHn #dmac2010 #
• Harris did a Pecha Kucha prez: 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide. Cool technique! Concluded "I feel like I've run a mile" #dmac2010 #
• Joe Harris shows Wordles of various rhetoric-related presses' mission statements. Clearly shows their different takes. COOL #dmac2010 #
• Joe Harris: dissertation NOT book. Diss written 2 accredit you. Book written as expert in field. Think "dissertation as material." #dmac2010 #
• Wait, nope, that wasn't it #dmac2010 #
• @MonicaErin2001 I'm not Cheryl but I think it was http://fairusetube.org/ #dmac2010 #
• Looking for other Web 2.0 tools? There's a search engine for that! http://bit.ly/aU4HiN #dmac2010 #
• Pretty psyched about Wetoku, which @trauman just showed us. Shows 2-sided video interviewing, records it. http://bit.ly/9TEQWb #dmac2010 #
• Hardest Photoshoppy/Gimpy thing to find in online photoediting: magic lasso tool. Some have it, but rarely as good as "real deal" #dmac2010 #
• If Gimp is a little too hardcore for your students, many web-based (but usually less powerful) alternatives: http://bit.ly/aHhObz #dmac2010 #
• Any suggestions for online publication venues for undergrad digital work that is science-oriented? Pls RT! #dmac2010 #
• We're talking Ning at the moment, so anyone who'd like to see the new July '10 Ning pricing plans: http://bit.ly/98ChNC #dmac2010 #
• But smartie that she is, @s2ceball still giving us tips about how to read linear text w/ eye toward effective digital redesign. #dmac2010 #
• Chery Ball says it's very difficult to remediate a linear text-based article into a digital article. Easier to be "born digital" #dmac2010 #
• Under-appreciated site of rhetoric: the freeze-framed shot at the beginning of an embedded movie that has not yet been played. #dmac2010 #
• (Should have explained last link–we are discussing older, first draft of project proposal for CC Online Digital Press) #dmac2010 #
• 5 days into DMAC, crowd asks, "Where's the sound?" in a text-dominated Sophie book. Attitude 180 from Thurs! http://bit.ly/djCd6J #dmac2010 #
• DMAC'ers feeling very sassy this morning. Partying does a tech seminar good. #dmac2010 #
• Took a library sci student to make me re-reimagine the book: she pointed out that children's books are almost never text-central. #dmac2010 #
• DMAC'ers: If you have Quicktime Pro great, but if not, MPEG Streamclip is good FREE vid resizer/reformatter. http://bit.ly/9nSwIE #dmac2010 #
• C. Selfe is doing what she does best: encouraging scholars,helping them see possibilities,increasing confidence,deepening thought #dmac2010 #
• just did my first-ever Sophie project. Have case of "more fun to read Sophie than compose in Sophie" but still very cool tool. #dmac2010 #
• .@selfe2 describing Sophie in terms of halos (those "blessed" tool icon hubs for every "blessed" element) and doobies (menus) #dmac2010 #
• also a folder for alphabetic text. List of Sophie-acceptable file formats in Help->Magnifying Glass->Search "Formats"->Sec 1.5.1 #dmac2010 #
• .@trauman recommends dividing Sophie assets into folders thusly: voice, music, stills, video, etc. @selfe2 does it same way #dmac2010 #
• My internal 8th grader loves it when @selfe2 and @trauman say "assets" over and over again in this tutorial. #dmac2010 #
• Which, of course, is point of kitchen/cooking metaphors @ DMAC. Gives us sense of security, control amid chaos. #dmac2010 #
• Kitchen/cooking metaphors v. popular at DMAC this year. Berthoff would giggle (said writing is not like cooking, it's chaotic) #dmac2010 #
• Finals week fatigue + DMAC = less creative tweets. Link to Debra Journet's student reflection ass't: http://bit.ly/bBswJe #dmac2010 #
• @myergeau I don't drink coffee. When I rule the world, there will be hot chocolate and/or Surge at all academic events. #dmac2010 #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-06

Posted by Jen - 06/06/10 at 03:06:00 am

• Speaking of accessibility, which Twitter clients have good enlarge font capabilities? Twhirl does, but it's so basic. #dmac2010 #
• @dmacinstitute C. Selfe wanted me to send link to hashtag archive. Maybe link from Resources section? http://bit.ly/9J3xAF #dmac2010 #
• On to @myergeau presenting on captioning YouTube videos w/ Caption Tube for accessibility #dmac2010 #
• Was just chatting w/ @selfe2 re: Google Moderator. Am psyched about its possibilities in classroom http://bit.ly/bypZbE #dmac2010 #
• .@s2ceball is doing a great job explaining Twitter. S. Dewitt is doing a great job passing out fudge stripe cookies. #dmac2010 #
• For DMAC'ers who are gaga for our classroom SMARTBoard, SmartBOARD Revolution is a must-visit: http://bit.ly/9EVMQR #dmac2010 #
• K. Comer's suggestion for student viewing re media use: Michael Moore's "Roger and Me" and a clip from "Manufacturing Dissent" #dmac2010 #
• My personal feeling is "yes" on grounds that my job is to make students aware of/critical of their rhetorical situation. #dmac2010 #
• Raises fundamental question: Are we in biz of helping students figure out the publication implications of their compositions? #dmac2010 #
• RT @: How does one defend themselves against an YouTube take down? What's the process? #dmac2010 (would love to hear an answer…) #dmac2010 #
• The paragraph-sized Fair Use Statement accompanying a "grey area" work: used by some journals, great rhetorical exercise 4 student #dmac2010 #
• C. Selfe: comp studies dealing w/ copyright grey area for years. Quote 3 lines v. 6 lines text? Not a "digital" prob. #dmac2010 #
• .@trauman makes important pt: lawyer can't tell you whether s.t. u r planning is legal/illegal. Each situation unique/contextual. #dmac2010 #
• @trauman makes important pt: a lawyer can't tell you whether s.t. u r planning is legal/illegal. Each situation unique/contextual. #dmac2010 #
• C. Selfe points out that ALL law (incl. fair use) is ambiguous until tested. Dewitt reminds us: pay attention to ever-changing law #dmac2010 #
• Wonderful DMAC debate going on. Students recording a local bus going by or downloading a bus sound? And who "owns" information? #dmac2010 #
• Props to @s2ceball / Kairos for their "capacious" publishing policy. RT: Kairos' copyright/Fair Use policy http://bit.ly/bbCLCL #dmac2010 in reply to s2ceball #
• K. heard students' rhetorical reasons, allowed copyrighted music. Makes it more 4 her 2 publish teaching research (fair use, but). #dmac2010 #
• Said students very willing to use C.Commons images, video but music was sticking point. Argued that they needed "their soundtrack" #dmac2010 #
• Katie describes "revolt" in her digital documentary course when students couldn't use copyrighted music 4 autobiography work #dmac2010 #
• Lovely Katie Comer shares her Google Docs prez on copyright/fair use/etc. Full of great resources 4 teachers! http://bit.ly/cnXGBa #dmac2010 #
• Awesome @dmacinstitute has been building a sexy DMAC Resources site incl. PPTs, bibliogs, links. Thx Katie D! http://bit.ly/8YriIH #dmac2010 #
• @selfe2 is always so wonderfully open minded. Says she had not thought in the past about how Twitter was a way of making meaning. #dmac2010 #
• C. Selfe complimenting DMAC tweets as "another level of intellectual engagement," admits she has (dis)missed it in the past. Thx! #dmac2010 #
• S. Dewitt showing new/annoying feature in iMovie 09: music/sound MUST be associated w/ iTunes/iPhoto. Inconvenient 4 comp labs. #dmac2010 #
• Got this from @web20classroom awhile ago, but relevant to DMAC convo. Comparison of video editing software: http://is.gd/bLDr3 #dmac2010 #
• Clearly some converted previous PC/MovieMaker fans in this room. Blown away by power/ease of iMovie. #dmac2010 #
• C. Selfe's tip for length of display for movie title text: however long it takes you to read the text out loud 3 times. #dmac2010 #
• Inspired by @bonniekyburz's tweet: some sample concepts in 60 = progress, awake, recession, belief. Cell phone would be perfect! #dmac2010 #
• First rule of iMovie '09: Start by making New Project. U can make a project w/o doing this, but iMovie will crash! Yikes! #dmac2010 #
• Scrambling and untangling as DMAC'ers get out Flip cams, portable firewire HD's, headphones for iMovie '09 workshop w/ S. DeWitt #dmac2010 #
• DeWitt teaches the "human tripod": clench elbows at side, hold camera between prayer hands at chest level. Steady for pan shots. #dmac2010 #
• Selfe suggests if students aren't buying books, they could buy equipment (microphones, jump drives, etc.) as alternative #dmac2010 #
• C. Selfe suggests the 30-second audio PSA for local non-profit as student assignment for Audacity #dmac2010 #
• What is data? What are truth claims? C. Selfe says "The DALN is not a collection of truths. It is a collection of stories." #dmac2010 #
• Cindy now showing DALN Resources section–a must see for teachers/researchers planning to use DALN #dmac2010 #
• Now discussing how researchers might use DALN, griping about DALN submission form (thank you OSU IRB for obfuscating it) #dmac2010 #
• Moral of the DALN: don't put anything on the Internet, anywhere, that you don't want out there. Another student discussion topic. #dmac2010 #
• DALN = discussion opportunity w/ students re: effective titling + how and if you can make data "truly" anonymous #dmac2010 #
• DALN searchable by anybody, including students doing research. H. Louie Ulman used DALN as a class text. #dmac2010 #
• C. Selfe: DALN metadata purposely open-ended, peeps can self-identify. Student teaching opp to discuss mining demographic info. #dmac2010 #
• Now that DMAC'ers have chosen to submit (or not submit) their own narrative to DALN, group discush of DALN-related issues #dmac2010 #
• C. Selfe emphasizing that DALN submissions are public/discoverable. Encourages giving lots of keywords, thinking about file name. #dmac2010 #
• Have found key to reducing student resistant to faculty digital assessment is to involve students in developing assessment. #dmac2010 #
• Resources for digital assessment: C. Selfe's book Multimodal Composition from Hampton Press, Jody Shipka article in 12/09 CCC. #dmac2010 #
• Someone @dmacinstitute looking 4 advice re: doing digital comp w/ diverse comm coll/distance learning pop. Help? Pls RT! #dmac2010 #
• Wish we had a DMAC wiki to record tips/warnings about Audacity etc. for teaching posterity. Nose game not it. #dmac2010 #
• DMAC Day 2, ready set go! First up, reading discush. Following from afar? Readings for 6/4 here: http://bit.ly/bJVSXo #dmac2010 #
• For fellow DMAC'ers: food/bar/movie coupons here, hint we are close to 1800/1900 blocks of High St http://bit.ly/cU6bSZ #dmac2010 #
• .@selfe3 funny you bring that up, I'm proposing exactly that for my RCL methods class, already did an informal pilot #dmac2010 #
• @mday666 will do! Am planning to post hashtag on DMAC blog in hopes of getting more participants tweeting. #
• Thanks @trauman for setting up DMAC blog! Just signed up! http://bit.ly/9EFn40 #dmac2010 #
• S. DeWitt pumping Sophie Book for our final #dmac2010 proj. C. Selfe compares Sophie to Daily Prophet in Harry Potter. #
• Selfe's pt re: PWD made me wonder: should multimodal docs be redundant in function across modalities to improve accessibility? #dmac2010 #
• C. Selfe emphasizing global context 4 our students, no longer an English-centric or unimodal context for communication #dmac2010 #
• @dmacinstitute Don't think C. Selfe would find it multimodally charming if we started playing "muffin top" to accompany her talk. #dmac2010 #
• Selfe has us make loser sign w/ both hands, connect fingers, hold it up, says "Now ur Steven Spielberg." Teachable moment FTW. #dmac2010 #
• Why is there no play/stop/time control panel for films embedded in PowerPoint? Dear Microsoft: I'm not a PC, but that was my idea. #dmac2010 #
• @s2ceball Any food that can be equated to love handles = not a good idea. #dmac2010 #
• Selfe recommends @myergeau's work on re-envisioning composition. See DMAC 6/10 reading 4 Yergeau appetizer http://bit.ly/aOGr9d #dmac2010 #
• C. Selfe's talk re: multimodality at #dmac2010 is delicious. Also delicious: free cheese bagels. Not delicious: the muffins. #dmac2010 #
• Psyched that #dmac2010 starts tomorrow! Not sure how final papers will get written, but hope DMAC will kill end my post #cw2010 withdrawal. #
• RT @Mediabistro: AP Stylebook Issues Social Media Guidelines http://bit.ly/caotth (via @WebNewser) #
• @mac_freedom is my new best friend. Locks ur Internet for 15 min to 8 hrs (unless you reload your machine). Best $10 I ever spent! #

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