• Guide to Accessibility Design and Resources

    As I slowly migrate my work from years ago — lest the inevitable hyperlink death occur before I can document it — I may eventually go back over and clean some of this up and expand upon them. For now, here are some resources focused primarily on accessible design principles… Listen ⇢

    Guide to Accessibility Design and Resources
  • Throwback: Lesson Plan: Tweetdeck as Research Tool

    [Lior] Ansley Colclough November 1, 2017 Because Twitter has become a significant platform for discussions around controversial issues, it behooves students and instructors in digital literacy and rhetoric courses to use Twitter as a research tool and discussion platform. However, the speed and scope of Twitter dialogue can make it… Listen ⇢

    Throwback: Lesson Plan: Tweetdeck as Research Tool
  • Throwback Tuesday: Lesson Plan: Visualizing and Analyzing Texts with Voyant

    In writing and literature classes, we teach our students to gather evidence from close reading in order to support their arguments. In what ways could data visualization charts actually aid processes of reading? The visualization tool Voyant allows the user to track the relative appearance and context of specific words… Listen ⇢

    Throwback Tuesday: Lesson Plan: Visualizing and Analyzing Texts with Voyant
  • Throwback Tuesday: Data Visualization: Visualizing Sound Texts

         In an upcoming lesson plan, I introduce some ways in which visualization be used to analyze elements of a literary text such as genre, theme, motifs, or plot structure. However, that lesson plan focuses predominantly on visual works. What are some of the ways in which visualization could… Listen ⇢

    Throwback Tuesday: Data Visualization: Visualizing Sound Texts
  • New Series Announcement: Throwback Tuesday

    In a slow return to blogging, I am going to start archiving old projects of mine on this blog. Some of these have been published elsewhere, but some of them remain unpublished. These projects include lesson plans (some for the DWRL, some not), blog posts from previous blogs, or other… Listen ⇢

    New Series Announcement: Throwback Tuesday
  • Throwback Tuesday: DWRL Lesson Plan – Visualizing The News As A Timeline

    Reprint from DWRL Lesson Plan – 2018. In today’s information economy, the abundance and production pace of information can make it difficult to follow news coverage of any given topic or event. Whether you are comparing different coverage of the same topic by more than one news source, tracking coverage… Listen ⇢

    Throwback Tuesday: DWRL Lesson Plan – Visualizing The News As A Timeline