Scholarly Websites

In addition to the Drupal sites that I create and maintain for my face-to-face classes, I have created several Drupal sites that serve as scholarly projects.

My first site, Visual Rhetorics: Seeing and Writing the World, began as a project for David Blakesley's Digital Rhetoric class. I implemented the design and structure to be highly accessible. All of my choices are documented on the site. The site's purpose is to provide resources for scholars, in various disciplines, who are interested in visual rhetoric.

My second site, which I also designed and maintain, is called Stu-dent A-va-tar and is a collaborative venture undertaken with a group of fellow rhetoricians: Mark Pepper, Morgan Reitmeyer, and Karen Kaiser Lee. Our work centers on the interactions of students, instructors, and the public's interaction in virtual worlds and web 2.0. Our site includes a machinima that we created in Second Life, which is intended to be an introduction to students and teachers interested in expanding their instruction into virtual worlds. Mark Pepper and I wrote the script and our colleagues joined in on the making of the machinima. Our site also contains several article, written in blog entry style, that deal with the significance of Second Life and Web 2.0 in the learning environment.

Writing New Media: Resources for Writing and Teaching New Media is my third scholarly project. It too was designed to be highly accessible. The primary purpose of this site is to provide teachers of new media with ideas for how to implement projects into their current classes. Specifically, it contains instructions on how to implement my independently designed Multimedia Writing syllabus, which I taught for two semesters at Purdue.