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Chapter 8: Designing Visual Arguments and Web Sites |
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"Analyzing Media: Photo essays." This page from the Class Zone contains a helpful exercise to encourage students to think critically about photo essays. http://www.classzone.com/books/lnetwork_gr12/page_build.cfm?content=analyz_media&ch=28
Cody, Anthony. "Teaching Practices: Digital Photo essays." Apple Learning Exchange. Written with for high school classes, this insightful assignment nevertheless provides much useful material for instructors teaching the digital photoessay at the college level. Corrigan, Dagmar Stuehrk and Chidsey Dickson. "E-Zines and Composition." Kairos 7.2 (Summer 2002). This useful article contains several assignments that ask students to collaboratively produce e-zines as part of their composition course. http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/7.2/binder.html?sectiontwo/corrigan/description.html
Displaying Data. This impressive page from Michigan State University Professor Danielle DeVoss's "Visual Rhetoric" Webpage provides an assignment on designing documents that display information as well as several exercises and a comprehensive link list. This page would be a great starting point for talkinga about designing alternative forms of visual rhetoric such as brochures and flyers. http://www.msu.edu/~devossda/vr/modules/module4.html
Grover, Mary. "Analyzing the Rhetoric of Websites." Kairos 7.2 (Summer 2002). This Kairos article contains the following assignment: "This writing assignment trains students to understand and articulate how web design works to manipulate Internet users' behavior and attitudes." http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/7.2/binder.html?sectiontwo/grover
Jones, Billie J. "Great Ideas: Collaborative Web Assignment." Kairos 7.2. http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/7.2/binder.html?sectiontwo/jones/TechPopJones.html
"Mural-venture: Teacher's Guide." This page provides a good starting point for instructors interested in assigning their students a mural project. http://www.stanford.edu/group/arts/nicaragua/student/mural/teacherguide.html
O'Conner, Michael."Assessing Visual Rhetoric." Millikin University. Although the title suggest that the page addresses visual rhetoric in general, it focuses principally on evaluating student web pages, providing helpful links to evaluation rubrics as well as assignments. http://www.millikin.edu/webmaster/assessment/visual/
Piano, Doreen. "Analyzing a Zine." Kairos 7.2 (Summer 2002). This article contains assignments as well as advice about "studying subcultural production on the World Wide Web." http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/7.2/binder.html?sectiontwo/piano/webzinehome.htm
Sand, Kaia. "Reading Hypertext." Part of the ://English Matters website, this page provides a useful exercise to get students to understand the reader-centered nature of hypertext. http://chnm.gmu.edu/ematters/modules/sand/readinghypertext.htm
Taciuch, Dean. "Digital Essays: Online Teaching Module." This page from the ://English Matters site offers an example assignment for teaching a digital (electronic) essay. http://chnm.gmu.edu/ematters/modules/dean.htm
"W.Eugene Smith: Photojournalism and Compassion." American Masters for Teachers. This teacher resource from the PBS site offers exercises that encourage students to analyze Eugene Smith's work as a photojournalist and also to create their own photoessays. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/education/lesson1_overview.html
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