Pods, Screens, & Videos

Many of these items are culled from my presentations or publications. Others are less formal or more personal dabblings. They represent both thinking about and composing through emerging less-textual media.

I'm a Map; I'm a Green Tree


A screencast looking at actor-network and post-human theories through the lens of the get a mac ad campaign.

Three Days Dead

This is a compilation that I mixed in audacity after first teaching, trying out a playlist assignment. The recording here is a transcription of the text and lyrics mixed in the playlist, Three Days Dead.

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Musical Pieces: Readymade Audio Projects and Creativity

Musical Pieces: Readymade Audio Projects and Creativity from Daniel Anderson on Vimeo.

A presentation given at the 2008 Conference on College Composition and Communication. This video looks at the concept of readymades in terms of student playlist projects.

A Survey of Multimodal Composition Practices: Report on a CCCC Research Initiative Grant

Given at the Computers and Writing Conference in 2006, this piece looks at new media teaching practices, reporting on results from a national survey (for John Slatin).

Hybrid Texts for Writing About Literature: Bridging Disciplines Through New Media

A presentation given at the 2003 Computers and Writing Conference, this piece looks at using media to bridge writing and literature.

Attention Tourists

Riffing on the idea of tourism as attention engine (see Richard Lanham's The Economics of Attention) I spliced together some soundscapes and images into a kind of poem.

Bona Fide Video Essay

This is a model I put together for an assignment asking students to create a video essay.

Is He Bona Fide? from Daniel Anderson on Vimeo.

YouTube, Playlists, and Composition

Just a brief reflection on some summer school activities

Watch the Bubble


A memoir screencast exploring my experiences with education and my history with the field of computers and writing.

The Warp and The Weft of Learning to Teach
A presentation given at the 2003 CCCCs conference, this video looks at issues in K-12 teaching. It traces opportunities for teaching both students and educators through new media.

Transforming the Teaching of Literature

Transforming the Teaching of Literature from Daniel Anderson on Vimeo.

This piece was delivered at the Computers and Writing Confernce in 2008.

New Media 101: Simple Assignments for Composing with Music and Images

Presented at the Computers and Writing Conference in 2007, this podcasts considers on the role of the personal in writing to reflect on new media composing.
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The Low Road to New Media Composition: Entry-Level Projects with High Literacy Payoffs

video Delivered at the convention of the National Council for Teachers of English in 2007, this screencast reports on the use of playlists and collages in college writing and literature courses.

Annotation Assignment

Owl Creek VideoA video reflection on an annotation assignment. The Flash video is about 35mb, so click the image if you have a decent Internet connection. For the assignment, we used a CommentPress text set up by the Institute for the Future of the Book. You can check out the online edition of An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge we created.

The Technologies and Art of Teaching

Something I put together to get a bit more familiar with Camtasia call-outs. I pulled down some of the lecture video and added a few questions. The are other questions to poke at as well: what does it mean for the haves like MIT to hire such teachers and create such content while others get to may only be able to consume it on the Web? How is it that teaching like this get valued? Must it become public, superstar fare? Mostly, though, it's just nice to think about how teaching can take place outside of the digital box sometimes.

Fair Use and New Media Composing

An end-of-semester reflection on the teaching and fair use, the real sticky example in the video is the last one, in which an entire song is translated into a video expression.

Let's be Fair: Intellectual Property and New Media Composition from Daniel Anderson on Vimeo.