Digital Humanities, anyone?

This week’s readings kept reminding me of the digital humanities panel that we had on campus a few weeks ago and also the discussions we have had about technology in the classroom. My exploratory paper was actually trying to look into some of this new media as an aid to enhance learning in a writing classroom. Also, our next assignment is also related to new media, and I have had some heated debates with some of my friends about the use of new media in the classroom, which made it a more interesting reading week for me. Some of the exercises suggested Anne Frances Wysocki looked very interesting to me, and I would really like to use them in my classroom, and see if it works like it does for Wysocki’s classroom. I really thought the article by Wysocki was really clever. I am not sure if I understand the part about decreased emphasis on content and more emphasis on the medium, but I guess, when we are working with the new media, the rhetorical purpose of the medium and the form that the content uses becomes highly influential on the message/content’s overall reception. Of course, Wysocki wants us to emphasize new media more in our composition classroom, but it only comes out as an ulterior motive. The argument makes it seems like just the integration of new media into the classroom is not what Wycoski is ultimately preaching.