Please visit the Digital Writing Month blog to read my guest post, “Digital Writing as Handicraft.” I would love to hear feedback: What do you think of the connections between the maker...
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For November’s Digital Writing Month (#DigiWriMo on twitter for short), I pledged to write 50,000 words in digital environments like twitter, blogs, and my preferred course management platform, Can... Delete the scoop?
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"One of the many potentials of the shifts in envisioning writing in multimodal spaces is the chance for new conversations -- for stretching out thinking beyond your own physical space and joining in discussions about the changes now underfoot. During November 2012's Digital Writing Month, educators and writers and others from across many teaching levels and learning domains -- from public schools to college universities and beyond -- were engaged in a deep exploration of digital tools and ideas, and many participants shared reflective practice on what those digital choices were doing to their conceptions of writing." Delete the scoop?
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As a final collaborative activity to Digital Writing Month, we were asked to come up with a Twitter Essay that captures the essence of our views on writing digitally. Delete the scoop?
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#digiwrimo Digital Writing: What counts? by Dr Davis on November 30, 2012. After reading Dr. Bessette's post “Digital Writing Month Fail?”, I went back and counted words I had written. I wrote 2,822 words on my classroom blog in November, ... Delete the scoop?
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For me, it was more about the exploration of ideas, and the “creating” of media that became the heart of my inquiry with Digital Writing Month. I was hoping to get inspired by the community, and maybe offer up some inspiration ... Delete the scoop?
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Today’s the last day of November. Advent starts in two days; classes end in four days (for me, anyhow); and today DigiWriMo is ending. So, what was DigiWriMo like for me? Maybe I should start... Delete the scoop?
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As I publish this, it’s 50,952 words, broken down into 1,548 tweets (averaging 22 words per tweet) and 16,209 words from blog posts across the webteam blog, the Oberlin blogs, this blog/site, and my... Delete the scoop?
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Digital writing can only persist if it is shifted between media as technology shifts. There is a beauty in this ephemerality and changeability. Delete the scoop?
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This really is what happened to me with my video game project for Digital Writing Month. I had begun to create a game in which I was seeking to represent some of my ideas around digital writing. I was two and a half levels into the game design when I realized: this is not working. If you have never dipped your toes into game design, the use of symbolism is important, and here, as I tried to “represent” digital writing within a video game format, it just fell apart on me. Delete the scoop?
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I have been lurking around DigiWriMo. Finally jumped into the Code:Poem prompt today. At first, I was fascinated by the prospect of spending a few minutes to learn some Java commands. (That’s what I’ll call them.) I sailed through the first several exercises and started thinking about my career options as a “Coder”, but as I worked my way into the harder tasks, I forgot what I learned in the first levels and could not put together compound strings, even with hints. But, I was following the steps of the prompt to work through at least part of the tutorial. I would need to repeat the tutorial *and* take notes to learn the full commands. After abandoning Code Academy (for today) I peaked at the sample code poems and was fascinated by the code {poem} project. The idea of communicating poetic style in code. Illuminating not obscuring and transcending a new medium with poetry. I hear the power of visual media to convey ideas and transform our communication style. But the code poems are entirely separate from that phenomenon in that they build on the power of allusion, alliteration, metaphor with a new, evolved form and function that codes voice into a living text. Delete the scoop?
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I jumped on board with the Digital Writing Month because the idea of National Novel Writing Month intimidated me and yet, I wanted a challenge that might push me in few different directions as a writer. A challenge that matched writing with technology, and deeper reflective stances, was right up my alley. I knew right from the start that I would not be counting words, since the 50,000 words of Digital Writing made no sense, particularly if I was going to be making comics, and videos, and other media compositions in which words were relatively meaningless. I still find it odd that folks are sharing their counts as they reflect on the work they did during the month. But I suppose we are a culture that is goal-orientated, and words are something one can tally up. Delete the scoop?
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November has gone by in a blur. Between trying to work on my DigiWriMo project, a two week vacation, moving, and visiting family this month has flown by. Now that December is here, ivrytwr is going... Delete the scoop?
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Today marks the last official day of Digital Writing Month, which has been quite an adventure. I'll reflect more this weekend when I have time about the ways I tried to push some boundaries and take part in the activities, and ... Delete the scoop?
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Hmm, it's Sunday morning and I could go through and count my Tweets, Facebook posts, blog entries and lines of code on Github, as I'd originally planned. But I really don't want to do that. Getting the DigiWriMo badge (if ... Delete the scoop?
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As Digital Writing Month comes to a close I’ve been reflecting on my experience with the month long writing project. It’s unfortunate that DigiWriMo fell in the middle of a very busy mo... Delete the scoop?
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It’s already the end of the month. I came nowhere near completing my goal of 50,000 digital words, but more troubling, I didn’t manage to write anything for either of my MLA presentations. Instead I spent a lot of time this month applying for jobs, caring for sick kids and spouse and self, and grading (oh, the grading!). Not to mention the 2.5 hours spent filling out paperwork for immigration. Can YOU list the exact addresses (and dates) of everywhere you’ve lived since you were 16? Delete the scoop?
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So the question is this; by not reaching my original goal – have I failed? Perhaps yes….perhaps no. I’m not going to agonize over it. Instead, I’m celebrating the various things that I have done and that I will continue to do in the days to come. Delete the scoop?
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And actually, it’s pretty fascinating to see how your words become waves when you are using audio files in a system like Audacity. The peaks and valleys – the gaps of silence – all remind you that our voice is really nothing more than sounds on the audio spectrum. Delete the scoop?
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I need to call on Digimulios now because I am getting way off topic. What I want to share is a word cloud of Friend’s blog shaped appropriately as a duck. I used www.tagxedo.com to develop this word cloud. The site’s default shapes did not include a duck, so I imported one from PowerPoint. Delete the scoop?
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Code poems are something I don’t know much about, but as a creative writing teacher I probably should. I’ve been thinking for awhile about how subversive code poems are and can be, especially if the audience doesn’t know they’re reading a code poem—only the most intuitive reader would know to “show source” and expose the work in full, rather than the mere semiotics of surface. Would this be too exclusive? No. As Sean Michael Morris reminded me the other evening, a writer should have high expectations of their audience. What also interests me about code is its ineffable nature—code is performative; it is what it does, so any HTML tag, for example, is a mere description of an action, rather than a “word” in the common sense of what we know words to be. I have a new book of poetry coming out in February titled </war>, and the primary reason I chose this title was it’s unspeakable (and often unrepresentable) form—we could say “end war” or “close war” or any number of other variations, but still not capture the essence of the performance (which is generally why we fail so much as a society when talking about war). Delete the scoop?
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