New Videos Describe Professional Writing Courses
Professional Writing faculty and students talk about some of the courses in the PW curriculum in these videos–produced over the summer of 2010 by PW alum Ben Froese with interviews conducted in April...
View ArticleStudy Away in NYC with Danielle DeVoss
Students interested in spending a semester studying in New York City with WRAC professor Danielle DeVoss should watch her new video: For more information, visit http://www.msu.edu/~devossda/nyc/
View ArticleSeeking Communications Management Interns
WRAC has been very fortunate to have two outstanding interns for the past several months who have been steadily growing and cultivating our online community. Alexandra (Ali) White and Laurel...
View ArticleWRA 417 Students Create Video Projects
In WRA 417 Multimedia Writing, students learn about the process of filming and editing a video, and ultimately discover another medium in which to write. Dr. Bump Halbritter explains it like this: “The...
View ArticleLiteracyCorps Michigan: A Project by Bump Halbritter and Julie Lindquist
For WRAC department faculty, the goal is to teach their students not only to write but to write well. Two professors, Bump Halbritter and Julie Lindquist, felt that they didn’t know enough about their...
View ArticleGender in Society
What started as a project for Professor Bump Halbritter’s Multimedia Writing (WRA 417) in the fall of 2008 has blossomed into a living and learning experience. Rhetoric and Writing Graduate Student...
View ArticleFrom Co.Create: A New Study Says, “Beyonce is Your Ad’s Best Friend.”
A new study, sponsored by Universal McCann says, “Music videos rank above online TV and traditional TV when it comes to viewers remembering and connecting with the ads accompanying the programming, and...
View ArticleFrom Laughing Squid: “A Short History of Animated GIF Images”
With the announcement of “gif” being dubbed Oxford English Dictionary’s Word of the Year, the internet has expanded on this news with several meme-based, gif websites that are drawing more attention...
View Article“The 15 Best Ads of 2012″
At the end of every year, popular websites, blogs, and news programs create lists of “Best Of” moments that happened throughout the year. Whether it’s Buzz Feed with the “Best Posts of the Year” or...
View ArticleFrom Open Culture: Classic Literary Works Get Animated
We all know of a famous literary adaptation that has been transformed to the screen through animation. One of my favorites is the 1977 TV movie adaptation of The Hobbit. Yet, did you know there is a...
View ArticleFolkstreams: A National Preserve of Documentary Films
Folkstreams.net is a digital archive of documentaries about American folk and roots cultures. This archive has two primary goals: first, to build a national archive of hard-to-find documentaries, and...
View ArticleMore Free Movie Sites!
In addition to the Wall of Films and Folkstreams, here are MORE websites with FREE movies. The possibilities in having access to all of these films are endless – watch them in your classes, assign them...
View ArticleFive Web-based Tools for Creating Videos
I’m passing along a list compiled by Richard Byrne of 5 video editing websites – Pixorial, WeVideo, PowToon, Wideo, and Weavly. That’s right, editing video in your web browser, which was nearly unheard...
View ArticleA Stop Motion Film for Book Lovers from Spike Jonze
Folks who love the texture and weight of a book in your hands, the telling but not too telling artwork, are going to love this short film from Spike Jonze and handbag designer Olympia Le-Tan. The pair...
View ArticleFrom Open Culture: “Amanda Palmer’s Tips for Being an Artist in the...
Amanda Palmer – internet darling, rock star, and keynoter at this year’s Muse and the Marketplace literary conference. This video captures her keynote address in it’s entirety, where she drops words of...
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Former WRAC Intern now at Notre Dame
Lexi Dakin, Professional Writing graduate from the class of 2013, has recently taken over as the Coordinator of Soccer Operations for The University of Notre Dame. She manages the social media, video...
View ArticleNerd vs. Geek
Do people constantly tell you that “you’re a geek” or “you’re a nerd?” What defines a geek or nerd? What differentiate the two? It can be perplexing, especially since there’s an overlap between the two...
View ArticlePeople, Upgrade Your Slideshows
Tedx Kyoto hosted a fascinating talk by Garr Reynolds about professional speaking. Professional speaking is crucial in many fields, and it turns out that most people just aren’t very good at it....
View Article“The 15 Best Ads of 2012″
At the end of every year, popular websites, blogs, and news programs create lists of “Best Of” moments that happened throughout the year. Whether it’s Buzz Feed with the “Best Posts of the Year” or...
View ArticleFrom Open Culture: Classic Literary Works Get Animated
We all know of a famous literary adaptation that has been transformed to the screen through animation. One of my favorites is the 1977 TV movie adaptation of The Hobbit. Yet, did you know there is a...
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