Many students may be unaware that we have access to Ancestry.com simply for being enrolled at DePaul. As the world’s largest genealogical website, Ancestry.com is home to…
Category: New Media
Explorations of how media other than writing, especially new evolving media, overlap with and inform writing itself.
Hey there. Do you like rap? I do too! Let’s talk about it. You don’t? Well, let’s talk about it anyway. I’d like to offer some of…
I was recently working with an English language learner in a conversation partner appointment, recounting a story about visiting Cumberland Caverns in Tennessee with my wife and…
Fan Fiction (n.); fiction written by a fan of, and featuring characters from, a particular TV series, movie, etc. (Google). Sounds like a bizarre type of piece to…
Technology is steadily increasing in prevalence in our everyday lives, which is reflected in our UCWbL appointments. Laptops are an essential part of work in the UCWbL.…
Why is spelling so difficult in English? A brief history of English. The short answer to this question is because English is really old, thus it has had the…
Crook & Folly, DePaul’s annual arts and literature magazine, opened for submissions starting January 25th, 2016. For those of you who love waiting until the last minute,…
Conversation partner appointments are easily one of my favorite types of appointments at the UCWbL because of how open and flexible they are. Being free to just…
For the sake of considering the space allotted in a tweet, the title of this post is 10 words, for a grand total of 53 characters (a…
Have you ever found yourself looking at a friend’s/professor’s/classmate’s/stranger’s Digication ePorfolio, wondering how on earth they could possibly make theirs look like that? If so, then this…