Check out the latest Daily Shouts column in the New Yorker: "Would You Like to Sit on My Bed with Me and Check Twitter?" by Ross Barkan. I know, I know, it’s one thing to listen to Coltrane while checking Twitter on your own bed, alone, and it’s another t ...
Revision
Best-selling author Thomas E. Ricks has an interesting recent essay in The Altantic, "The Book He wasn't Supposed to Write," about the revision process he went through with his editor, Scott Moyers, as he worked on his newest book. I'm not sure that al ...
Links are for humans; URLs are for computers
URLs are for computers. They are specific addresses that tell the web browser where to go to fetch data and show it to you in one form or another. The URL for the FAQ page on this site is http://eng221f17.davidmorgen.org/resources-and-glossary/. The URL ...
Week Ahead: 2
2 8/29 Domain purchased, class subdomain installed Sketch 1: Avatar 8/31 Net Smart, chapter 1 "Attention! Why and How to Control Your Mind’s Most Powerful Instrument" (Emory library link) Writing Online intro Podcasts episode sign ...
First day of class!
First day writing exercise Take a look at the Mozilla “framework for entry-level web literacy & 21st Century skills” linked to in the first entry under our key terms, and reproduced as an image below. The Mozilla map is interactive, so spend a bit o ...
Mozilla Web Literacy Map
Mozilla has put together a “framework for entry-level web literacy & 21st Century skills” with an accompanying visualization that you can use to navigate their framework. The core literacies (Write, Read, Participate) play out across a set of fourteen ...
Welcome to New Media Writing
Your homework to complete before we meet again on Thursday: Read over this website very carefully as it constitutes the syllabus for this course. Note that the Syllabus page includes a number of subpages, covering such topics as: how to contact me; t ...
Equality of Opportunity Project
Investigating economic and social mobility through publicly available statistics on students’ earnings and their parents’ incomes for each college in America, and then collaboratively building a website that presents our questions and findings, and visual ...
ATLMaps
More information to come ATLMaps Hannah Palmer Hannah S. Palmer is a writer and urban designer who grew up in Atlanta, in a neighborhood that is gone now, covered over by Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. I'm From Here project at ATLMaps. ...









