Chen Gao
Using WeChat, a social networking mobile app popular in China, an undergraduate Advanced Chinese I class built a virtual learning community to strengthen students’ writing skills in Chinese, while providing them with broader international audience, enhancing their vocabulary and grammar, and offering more opportunities for collaboration, interaction, and feedback.
Chelsey M. Bahlmann Bollinger, Jamie Calcagno-Roach, Joi Merritt, and Eric Stauffer
A look at how a university library guided faculty members in building their own 3D printer to be used in various disciplines across campus.
Read more… What We Learned Having Faculty Build a 3D Printer
Julia Brown
This assignment was created for a First Year Writing Inquiry Seminar (FIQWS) at City College of New York. FIQWS is based on the principles and pedagogy of the learning community. Students are enrolled simultaneously in a topic course in which they learn about a specific subject, in this case “Truth, Fiction and Photography,” and a composition course in which they learn and practice composition skills. This assignment for the composition section asks students to apply what they are learning in the topic section to their personal experiences through a personal photograph and compose a digital story.
Read more… The Digital Story: Integrating the Personal and Academic through a Multimodal Approach
Fred Cheyunski
A hands-on non-programmer’s introduction to initiating and using networked information analysis for knowledge acquisition and exploration.
Read more… Developing a Small-Scale Graph Database: A Ten Step Learning Guide for Beginners
Kelly J. Hunnings
This assignment asks students to create a multimodal project wherein they adopt the voice, tone, and attitude of one of the characters from Jane Austen’s Persuasion (1817) in an effort to encourage critical thinking, analysis, and promote a better understanding of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature.
Read more… Creating Multimodal Documents to Understand Literature
