Multimedia Writing English 303

A class in Multimedia Writing, offered by CLC Director Sandy Baldwin

Course Description: Study of communication and design issues in multimedia composition. Focuses on communication, creative expression, persuasion, interactivity, and rhetorical principles. Practice in composing multimedia documents such as online publications, interactive literary works and tutorials. ENGL 303 is part of the English Department’s Technical Writing and Editing sequence.
Multimedia is broadly defined, including but not limited to text, image, audio, and animation. The course will focus on web-based multimedia.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
author and design web sites;
write for the web with awareness of genres and audiences;
understand the complexity of representation and expression using multimedia;
analyze the social and material transformation of writing in multimedia environments.

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ENG 273 Contemporary Literature

Professor Sandy Baldwin

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Avatar Identity and Being Online

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ENGL 303 Multimedia Writing Fall 2008

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English 303 Multimedia Writing Spring 2008

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“A Map of Home”

The Center for Literary Computing just completed a project for the “coming home” celebration, part of presidential inauguration week.

“A Map of Home” accompanies the the Coming Home website designed by WVU Web Services: (link no longer available). As you’ll see, Web Services created a site featuring audio and video reminiscences by students, alumni, faculty, etc. associated with WVU.
Our contribution tackles the same topic from a different direction: rather than extensive in-depth videos taken in a studio setting, etc., we sent CLC interns out on the streets of Morgantown to gather candid snapshots and short observations on Morgantown as home. We then mapped these to the geography of Morgantown using Google Maps. Please take a look: the link is at the bottom of the Coming Home website (url above) or directly here: http://www.as.wvu.edu/english/mapping_home.html The map features a selection of materials gathered over several weeks of interviews.

Project Credits: Sandy Baldwin, David Bello, Jon Harvey. Jeremy Justus, Christina Malcomb. Send comments or questions to clc@mail.wvu.edu.

CLC Awarded NSF Grant: The CLC received a $118K grant from the NSF.

The Center for Literary Computing received a $118,985 grant entitled “The Codework Project” from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to research the relationship between creative writing and computer programming. The grant is from the NSF’s new CreativeIT program, which supports synergistic research in the intersection of creativity and information technology. The CreativeIT grant program will lead to new modes of thinking and problem solving, new approaches to scholarship and new paradigms for education.

The CLC created the content and script for a computer game supplementing the University 101 freshman orientation class.

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ENG 303 Multimedia Writing Fall 2007

Professor Sandy Baldwin

The syllabus is here.