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What is Wiki?

Wiki offers you a gloriously blank space for multimedia composition. A user editable space on the web, wiki is a collaborative writing technology that gets writers writing to each other. Watch this video to learn more.

Free Wiki Space

Need wiki space for teaching or document design? Click Here to join our rapidly growing interactive writing community. Share papers, templates, feedback, assignments, images, videos, visions, dreams...

Pedagogy

Assignments for Multimedia Composition - wiki pedagogues share assignments and best practices here. Try these exercises, add more

mobiused - wiki pedagogy and practice from mobius. Browse new ontologies of intertwinglement, grok wikidelia in fullness! (Void where Prohibited)

Rhetoric and Composition - Wiki Book A Free Guide to First Year Composition - Help Finish It!

Grammar

Grammar Girl - all your questions answered, including why Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan got it wrong about getting laid...

Fowler's Grammar - the early 20th Century source for all the "rules" you fear. Know them so you can break them!

Multi-Media Tools

Audacity - Free Audio Editor and Recorder

Freesound - Just what it says. Grab a Chunk of Sound, Start to Play

Gifninja - make animations online, for free, out of any mix of images you like

The Gimp - Create, Alter, Polish & Remix Images

Free Logo Maker - Convert any text to a logo, free!

Make Text Spirals!

Mycomplab An Integrated Site for Composition Teachers and Students

Online Image Editor - just what it says. Check out the funky glitter and star wizardry! Take any image from the web and recreate it as you like

Sound Transit - Sound Transit is a collaborative, online community dedicated to field recording and phonography, encouraging sharing and reuse of sounds

Google Apps - Apps is like MS Office but free and web-based like a wiki. Sites is a web--based website developer, also free. The psu.edu domain has much larger storage capacity [1] Google also offers Talk, Calendar, SketchUp and YouTube for free.

File Hosting Services

Box.net - Host big files (up to one Gigabyte), then post the link to your wiki!

Zamzar - Free online file conversion! [2] - Free web-based tools such as Sites for websites, Docs for word processing, pdf generator, spreadsheets, and presentations, Talk, and Calendar. The psu.edu domain provides much larger storage capacity for all types of files, go to http://partnerpage.google.com/psu.edu

Writing/Documentation Tools

KOffice - Like Microsoft Office, but Free

Latex - A Document Preparation System

Edit Latex online! - (Beta)

Noodle tools - Free bibliography composer and other research tools

Open Office - Like Microsoft Office, but Free

Wiki on Wiki - An Evolving Student View of Wiki

Zoho - Free online word processor, presentation software, spreadsheets, web conferencing..Nothing to Download!

Zotero - Free easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself.

Reading

The Creative Commons - Home to shareable images, sounds, texts, software, etc

Online Literature Network - search, browse, read and discuss literature old and new.

Software

PortableApps - Open source software to carry on a flash drive and use on any computer

RSSinclude - Mix your Own RSS Streams into Your Wiki Page

Ubuntu - Free Operating System for your Composition Machine- Like Windows but Reliable, Secure, & Free!


We're creating some categories to assist in coordinating this site into a collection of documents that is as easy to navigate as possible. Each category title represents a platform concept with multiple resources archived into that category. You can easily search for all archival material in a category by typing the category name into the Search box on the left - or by simply clicking on the link below. The tools will assist you in making positively magical multi-media compositions. Be heard above the Infoquake! Get stuff done! Get wiki!

Featured ContentComposing The Sacred

Students study and practice practice collective exegesis and remix texts from the contemplative tradition of the ineffable, the encounter with that which exceeds words. Rather than an element in religious discourse or dogma, the sacred will be taught as a rhetorical practice in response to what Friedrich Nietzsche called the "untimely", that which bursts, exceeds or just plain ignores "ordinary" chronological or historical temporality.
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Featured ContentDicktations

In scores of novels, hundreds of short stories and thousands of pages of exegesis, the writer Philip K. Dick grappled with the nature of reality and life in a world increasingly subject to simulation. In this course we will look to Dick's novels, essays and other writings for training in the rhetorics of information, rhetorical practices adequate to a world where the distinctions between organisms and machines, reality and fiction and life and death are subject to sudden and often indiscernible mutation.
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Featured ContentNanotransformations

How can we manage the unpredictable implications of extraordinarily small technologies? Will nanotechnology transform what it means to be human, offering immortality even as machines evolve beyond expected human capacities? How should we prepare for the volatilities, uncertainties and opportunities of such a transformation?
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