Kyle D. Stedman

  1. A New Hope for Games in the Classroom

    Welcome to the newest episode of Plugs, Play, Pedagogy--the first of a two-part episode! Look below for more details about what you'll hear, or just listen here. As always, you can also subscribe via iTunes or Stitcher, or you can download in a variety of formats at Podigee. Produced and recorded by Kyle Stedman (@kstedman), assistant professor of English at Rockford University, in cooperation with KairosCast and Writing...

    Published on Mar 21st 2016

  2. Copyright and Writing

    How might you more effectively integrate multimedia components into your assignment? “Let rhetoric be an ability, in each case, to see the available means of persuasion.” – Aristotle, Rhetoric (1.2.1) With great resources comes great responsibility. Composition does not merely refer to the writing of words on a paper or in a word processing document but also includes the holistic act of using...

    Published on Jan 21st 2012

  3. Episode 12: Video Didn’t Kill the Composition Student

    Composition classes are getting increasingly multimodal. You can't avoid it--and why would you want to? Visuals, sounds, videos--all are modes of composing that match up with the rhetorical principles we use when teaching alphabetic writing. In this episode, co-edited with John Silvestro of Miami University, we focus on the practicalities of assigning video projects to your students. First, John interviews...

    Published on Mar 21st 2016

  4. Getting Started Writing on a Wiki

    M. C. Morgan's wiki is at http://biro.erhetoric.org The Simplest Writing Space Wikis were designed with simplicity in mind: The writing space is minimal—a text field. The controls are pedestrian—Edit and Save. The formatting is fundamental—Type to enter text, hit return twice to create paragraphs. Use equal signs or hash signs for headings, slashes for emphasis, enclose links in double-brackets, or just...

    Published on Aug 30th 2013

  5. Locations of Writing

    Listen to the episode of Plugs, Play, Pedagogy! As always, you can stream it from this site or download the mp3, or subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, or Podigee. Transcript is available here. In the September 2014 issue of College Composition and Communication, editor Kathleen Blake Yancey opened a special issue on locations of writing with ten vignettes--short reflective pieces where authors considered the meanings of the places where...

    Published on Mar 21st 2016

  6. Making Sure Your Voice is Present

    The Terror of Voice I like order. I love the comfort of a beautiful and functional Excel spreadsheet. I organize my CDs by genre and then alphabetically by artist. I eat three meals a day. But my love of order sometimes butts heads with my love of writing. That’s because no matter how much attention I pay to following the...

    Published on Apr 19th 2012

  7. What are New Literacies?

    Something seems wrong A few days ago, I tweeted something that wasn’t particularly funny, but I got this response:1 I don’t know anyone named Cory Folse, and I don’t know who this @jokesallnight person is, either. So I ignored the tweet, kind of glad I had made someone happy, but kind of confused. But then a couple of days ago,...

    Published on Nov 30th 2011

  8. Why Study Rhetoric? or, What Freestyle Rap Teaches Us about Writing

    The website eHow has a page on “How to Freestyle Rap” (“Difficulty: Moderately Challenging”), and I’m trying to figure out what I think about it. On one hand, it seems like it would be against the ethos of an authentic rapper to use a page like this to brush up on freestyle skills. After all, the page is hosted on a corporate website...

    Published on Apr 15th 2012