The Digital Writing & Research Certificate recognises the work members of the Digital Writing & Research Lab do to incorporate emerging technologies and digital literacies into their scholarly practice and pedagogy. The Certificate has sixteen components which encompass a wide range of digital skills.
You can access my most recent submissions (digital artifacts with accompanying metadiscourse) below, or explore my full certificate portfolio using the links in the sidebar.
Latest Portfolio Items
Pedagogy: TimeMapper Lesson Plan
In the summer of 2015, I designed a lesson plan using TimeMapper, an open source tool for building timelines in which each event is mapped to its temporal and geographic location, for the Department of Rhetoric & Writing’s First Year Writing course. This course is primarily taught by graduate student instructors in their first year as an instructor of record; …
Social Networking: @wisebeck
My primary social network is Twitter, where I can be found as @wisebeck. I joined the site in 2011 after a peer in my MA cohort sang the praises of the backchannel at PCA/ACA, the annual conference of the Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, which we were both presenting at later that year. Reviewing my Twitter achive in …
Web Presence: beckwise.com
My web presence: you’re looking at it. I registered my domain, beckwise.com, in May 2011, with the intention of building it out as a portfolio site in advance of my applications to PhD programs later that year. It was initially built as a Google site but in January 2013, while working in the UWC and angling for a spot in …