At The TLT Group (a non-profit that works with educational institutions), we've been gathering examples of college level, academic 'writing' in disciplinary courses (i.e, 'digital writing across the curriculum')

http://www.tltgroup.org/resources/gx/Digital-WAC.htm

We're doing this to try to answer a question: should colleges (and high schools) be teaching students the rhetoric of writing online (e.g., creating web sites; dealing with intellectually and emotionally difficult problems through online conversation) in order to enrich the teaching options available to faculty teaching advanced courses. For example, are the options of teaching literature, history, engineering, law, math and/science enriched if students enter those classes as able to write with digital media as they are to write traditional essays and research papers?

Please take a look at the site:

a)  can you suggest more examples of how student creation of web sites has strengthened or enriched disciplinary courses?

b) would you suggest additions or changes to the conceptual structure: the options for teaching created by student skills in digital writing?

c) would you suggest changes in what we're calling this? (We picked the term 'digital writing across the curriculum' in part because the strategies developed several decades ago to develop writing across the curriculum seem appropriate here, too. For example, in colleges and universties, it may make sense to help faculty learn to use digital writing for publication in their professions as a step toward helping those same faculty exploit and develop student skills in their disciplinary courses.

d) are there web sites, books, articles, or other resources that we ought to sharing on this page?

 
I'm giving a talk on this topic at the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universties (AAC&U) later this month and will be doing a workshop in part on this topic in an April AAC&U workshop in Seattle on technology and learning. I'd love to post your resources on this page so that we can point to them in the session this month and the workshop in Seattle!

 
Steve Ehrmann,  ehrmann@tltgroup.org   The TLT Group