Review Tools

The following sites are great for locating movie and album reviews:

Rolling Stone

The Sanfrancisco Chronicle

New York Times

Rotten Tomatoes

Purdue Owl

The Purdue OWL is an excellent online handbook resource that can help not only with your group project topics, but your essays throughout the semester as well.

Photo Editing

Picnik can allow you to edit and manipulate images in a more extensive way that Microsoft Word. These images can be saved to your computer and then used in Movie Maker, Powerpoint, Word, or any other visual project. They can also be printed out for non digital projects.

Digital Collage Tool

One tool you might consider using for your visual literacy narrative project is the digital poster/collage site Glogster. It allows you to use images, video, audio, and text.

Welcome

We will use blogs to reflect on the reading, writing, and discussion we do in class this semester. Details of blog requirements can be found on the course website under assignments then blogs. Additionally, use your blog space to pose any questions relating to English 101 that you want to share with your classmates and me, any interesting or helpful class related items you come across, and to respond and communicate with your peers. Be sure to write not only on your own blogs, but on your classmates as well. In addition, be sure to take advantage of the affordances blogs have to offer. Use hyper links to link to material on other places of the web and put images, video, and any thing else available to you in your blog posts. Most importantly, have fun blogging!