I am loving the look of whiteboard style digital stories and IGNITE or pecha kucha presentations, and I am excited for my students this semester to do some exploration of the options available and put them to use! 

I am really liking the look of this app, sparkol, and I hope that some of my students will get creative with it this semester.

Here's a fascinating piece of food ethnography on the cultural heritage of soba in Japan!

Enjoy!

If you're like me, you spend considerable class time demonstrating to students the importance of digital publication of all sorts, from designing and authoring websites to tweeting, from creating a course Facebook page to submitting changes to an entry on Wikipedia.  

Much of my logic for their composing in digital environments rests on the immediacy of such composition and the concrete interaction with an interested audience that it provides communicators, but it also stresses the importance of such communication within intellectual conversations.  

Consequently, students in my courses regularly follow and join online conversations that relate to our course topics and the questions they are interested in engaging for their own research projects.  One stumbling block that we have faced - over and over and over - is the slow development of citation standards for digital publication.  But no longer: Aditi Rao at teachbytes and Camille Gamboa and SAGE to the rescue!