This course was developed with a CUNY IDEA grant.

1. Examining the Nexus of TechnoCultural
Capital, Digital Rhetorics, and Writing
Studies in and for the 21 Century
Carmen Kynard, Ph.D. | John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Guiding Curricular Questions
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What is technocultural capital
and what does it achieve?
How do digital rhetorics and
digital justice intersect?
What does writing and/or
digital scholarship do in a
multimedia age? How?
Major Components of the Course
• Updated Course Website
• Peer Technology Mentors for
Lab Days
• Multiple, Scaffolded Student-
Centered Projects
• Point-Spreads/Guidelines for
Grading (quantify student
challenges; align assessment
with digital design)
Course in Focus: ENG201 (second-semester of First Year Writing)

2. Course Website:
http://www.digirhetorics.org/

3. Project I
Student sample above is taken from a webpage that is currently open to the public on digication/ePortfolio
(students are not required to go public)
Digital Justice
Presentations
Each class begins with a student’s
10-15 minute presentation (using
Google Presentations or Prezi)
analyzing the digital rhetorics of
an activist or group committed to
using digital tools in the service of
social justice today.

4. Project II
Student sample to the left is taken from a
student webpage that is currently open to
the public on digication/ePortfolio (students
are not required to go public)
Collaborative Essay
(Rhetorical Analysis)
In this project, students take the
scholars we have read in the early
part of the semester and bring them
into conversation. The goal here is
to offer a rhetorical analysis and
write collaboratively.

5. Project III
Student sample below is taken from a
weebly website:
www.changequalsuccess.weebly.com
The Collaborative Website
Students work in teams to create a
website (using weebly) that archives
the digital products and processes
(primary sources) of activists and
groups working for social justice
alongside secondary sources
investigating histories and issues.

6. Project IV
Student samples to the right
are taken from webpages
that are currently open to
the public on digication
ePortfolios (students are not
required to go public)
Last Project: Digital
Storytelling & ePortfolios
As the grand finale, we do digital storytelling to
fuse sound, words, and graphics with video and
then create a digital archive of all of the work
that we did for the semester.
Two Sample
ePortfolios

7. Assessment
Sample
Each project gets counted towards the overall 200 points of
the course. Students receive detailed worksheets for each
project. The 8 points above were part of the overall 35 points
possible for the website project. Each of the 200 points of the
course is done this way.

8. Collective Student
Metanarrative:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc
JbviCOu28
The 2 Most Visited Sites
http://changequalsucces.weebly.com
http://artisamovement.weebly.com