Category Archives: Visual Rhetoric

notes from the interblags

Posted on September 27, 2007 by Michael

Some interesting links: • Konrad Glogowski posts about his own voice in blogs while teaching 8th grade. I found his post really interesting in regards to personal voice and identity presentation/representation. An excerpt: What I am really concerned about, however, … Continue reading →

Posted in Arguments (nature of?), Blogs, Blogs in Classrooms, Collaboration, Internet culture, Notes from the Interblags, Visual Rhetoric | Leave a comment

bodies, bodies, bodies… and ears and rings and hoops

Posted on September 25, 2007 by Michael

Via confusion at the Blogora over what type of ears a graduate student is wearing, I read this Chronicle article about professional dress in academe. I too am confused about what type of ears the graduate student in this article … Continue reading →

Posted in Teaching Composition, Visual Rhetoric, WR214: Writing in Business | 3 Comments

notes from the interblags, talk like a pirate day edition

Posted on September 19, 2007 by Michael

It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day, but I refuse to celebrate (while it is fun, I feel somewhat uneasy about the whole concept, for reasons I can’t quite explain yet). Here’s some interesting stuff I want to catalogue/share: • Sometime … Continue reading →

Posted in Affect, Gender, Internet culture, publics, Visual Rhetoric | 2 Comments

Pecha Kucha:

Posted on September 4, 2007 by Michael

via Johndan Johnson-Eilola, a YouTube video by Daniel Pink on using emotional intelligence in signs, which is an interesting topic in and of itself, but he does the presentation in Pecha Kucha style, where there are 20 slides shown for … Continue reading →

Posted in Design, Presentations, Visual Rhetoric | Leave a comment

aids ads getting creative

Posted on August 23, 2007 by Michael

Via Queerty.com, InventorSpot posts some fascinating AIDS awareness ads from Europe, including this one: These ads are pretty shocking, and I especially like this one, for how emaciated and deathly Wonder Woman looks — and the statement below that “AIDS … Continue reading →

Posted in Visual Literacy, Visual Rhetoric | 9 Comments