This course will introduce students to three primary forms of web authoring: weblogs, websites, and video. Weblogs emphasize writing in the more traditional sense but they transform the contexts for writing. Websites force definitons of writing to include image, code, and design principles. Video most explicitly challenges what it means to write in contemporary society by elevating moving images over static text. While the forms are different, the basic rhetoric/logic that cuts across these forms is the re/mix. Weblogs pull content from a variety of sources on the web and mix them in a new writing space. Websites pull content from print and the web and redesign them for easy access. Videos juxtapose images, texts, and sound from various sources to create new associative and argumentative meanings.

The primary aims of the course are to establish some conceptual ground for thinking about these forms of authoring and to provide a workshop environment for students to experiment with their production. Students will be expected to read diligently, attend technology workshops outside of class, create and maintain a weblog, build a basic website, and produce a video or multimedia project at the end of the term.