The 2005 Computers and Writing Conference
Throughout this essay/hypertext, I will discuss an expanded notion of the "digital divide" that goes beyond the consideration of class and economics. For example, at the 2005 Computers and Writing Conference, multiple digital divides affecting the incorporation of new media into college writing courses were evident. Many of the presentations circled around the following questions:
1) How can we teach
required writing skills and
still have time to instruct our
students in the use of new
media writing techniques?
2) Should we simply move beyond traditional print text essays and have our students make movies and design web sites?
3) How do we teach collaborative new media writing projects in academic institutions that equate scholarship with individualistic print-based academic essays?
4) How do we assess and grade new media writing projects?
5) How can we take advantage of the diverse literacies students bring into the classroom?
To respond to these important questions, I will explain how teachers can work through these tensions by articulating the rhetoric of new media and by creating a web-based class hypertext.
Technology, Writing, and Higher Education
Student Writers as Hypertext Users
Changing Conceptions of Academic Writing
Home and School Models of Literacy