Selfe, Cynthia, and Susan Hilligoss. Click here for links to online resources for the study of digital literacy. If you do not currently have a postbox account, we can activate your account from our classroom. If you will be checking your email in public labs or from graduate student offices in Denney Hall, you should also bring a separate disk to format for email. The research project will be written for presentation on the World Wide Web, and basic instruction in web authoring will be an integral part of the course.
Collaborative projects are welcome.
Though it would not exactly be retrograde to assign papers in a course on electronic literacy, the written work in this seminar will emphasize email discussion and hypertext authoring for the World Wide Web. However, the current state of electronic literacy makes many of the familiar conventions for course assignments problematic. These issues are all important to the study of electronic literacy, and we will discuss them in class, designing our course work as we go. Fortunately, we can still think of textual work in terms of rhetorical context and purpose, regardless of media. Meanwhile, if you would like some suggestions about the directions these projects might take, click on the linked words in the list above.