Choosing a Civic Engagement Artifact
For your Civic Engagement speech, choosing an artifact that is rich, interesting, or otherwise noteworthy (perhaps it’s funny, quirky, controversial, or historically important) will yield more insights...
View ArticleFinding Your Passion: Blogging and Beyond
Ah, the Passion Blog. You have a unique opportunity to write publicly about anything you want, and you have a great responsibility to sustain this “anything” for the duration of the semester — and...
View ArticleMake Your Comments Count
Blogging communities, like real-life ones, benefit from productive communication and engagement. What makes a good blog comment? These two entries are pithy and worth a look: How to Write a Blog...
View ArticleThe Innovation of Loneliness
Earlier in the semester, we read Sherry Turkle’s “Flight from Conversation.” Recently, a brief video based off her newest book, Alone, was launched to examine how our “connected” lifestyles still can...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Rhetorical Analysis
For your next assignment, you will conduct a rhetorical analysis of an essay, speech, or advertisement (print or video) and convey your analysis in a 4-5 page essay. To help you approach this task,...
View ArticleDigging the Shift. Paridigm Shift, that is.
Your next assignment sequence (including an essay and a TED talk) revolves around identifying, discussing, and analyzing the potential meaning(s) of a specific past or contemporary paradigm shift. This...
View ArticleTED Talk Examples from RCL Lore
These three former RCL students have boldly dared to go where you have not yet gone: the TED Talk stage. If you’re wondering how a student might take his or her paradigm shift findings and craft them...
View ArticleUnderstanding Copyright
Ryan Wetzel on Copyright Perspectives: The Job Interview. Dan Cahoy on Talking Copyright.
View ArticleTechnology Resources
The two main resources on campus are 1) Media Tech and Support Services (MTSS) and 2) Media Commons. Although there is some overlap of services, I recommend using MTSS for equipment checkout (free...
View ArticleThe Form of Newscasts, Oscar Winners, Disney Trailers, and Chick Flicks
Through repeated exposure, we’ve intuitively come to recognize form. We understand how an Oscar-Winning movie trailer unfolds, how a Disney movie is advertised, or what a newscast looks and sounds...
View ArticleBuilding Blogs: a refresher
This spring semester you will be keeping two separate blogs: 1) a Civic Issues (CI) blog, and 2) a Passion blog that either continues your original topic or introduces an entirely new topic. If you are...
View ArticleThis I Believe
For our first assignment of the Spring 2013 semester, we’ll explore our beliefs through NPR’s long-running This I Believe essay. Whitney Houston believes that children are our future… R. Kelly believes...
View ArticlePreparing to Deliberate: National Issues Forum (NIF) on Higher Education and...
In preparation for our National Issues Forum (NIF) on higher education, consider this starter video created by the Kettering Foundation to understand the issue and its three options for deliberation....
View ArticleFocusing Our Attention on Advocacy
As we’ve discussed during class, advocacy can take many forms. So far, we’ve examined how a seemingly simple infographic, like Penn State’s One in Five Poster, can be layered with logos, ethos, and...
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