This slideshare shows the skeleton for a PPT-to-movie demo that I do with students. I am using a video from my own ePort to do this demo. The purpose of the final video (see video at https://bit.ly/eport-story) is to introduce an ePortfolio where I reflect back on my transition to digitized first year writing courses. In my current approach to teaching first year writing, I ask students to write and create for multiple, public audiences using a variety of digital platforms. While this has always been a "request" of my pedagogy, the creation of public writing opportunities was not always very an easy feat. Digital cultures offer us new opportunities for public writing pedagogies. Since the first semester of my first year writing course (in a two-course sequence) revolves most closely around ePortfolios, I thought it was only appropriate that I use an ePortfolio to compose this pedagogical story.

2. The purpose of this
ePortfolio is to reflect
back on my transition to
digitized first year
writing courses. Since
the first semester of my
first year writing course
(in a two-course
sequence) revolves
most closely around
ePortfolios, I thought it
was only appropriate
that I use an ePortfolio
to compose this
pedagogical story.

3. "DIGITAL SPECTRUM: Multimedia Essays
& Projects from the First Year" was
created in fall 2013 by my second-semester
freshman composition
class. The digital stories and projects
collected here serve as models of and
points of discussion about digital
writing. Contrary to what many
people may say, first year college
writers have important intellectual,
social, and political contributions to
make and are not mere passive
vessels waiting for the imprint of
their professors' rules and formulas
for writing. We celebrate and salute
that energy here.

4. Student Projects
“Pretty for a Black Girl” “#SOSVenezuela”

5. “Ready or Not” by the Fugees
“Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)” by Digable Planets
“Family Affair” by Mary J. Blige (Live on David Letterman…see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgcSHzgZ8gQ)