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    Assigning Digital Projects

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    Looking for more help? The CDEx offers consultations, training, tutorials, workshops, and more.


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    CDEx Staff

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    Current Staff Jason Helms is the Director of the Center for Digital Expression and an Associate Professor of English. He teaches courses on the history of rhetoric, multimedia authoring, visual rhetoric, gaming, comics, rhetoric and philosophy, and writing writ large. His research focuses on the interplay of rhetoric and technology. His digital monograph, Rhizcomics: Rhetoric, Technology, and…


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    Consultations

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    The Center for Digital Expression (CDEx) supports the entire TCU community—students, faculty, and staff. We provide individual consultations, training, tutorials, and workshops on many issues related to digital composing. We believe in empowering you to feel comfortable learning, teaching, and creating digital projects—we do not believe in completing projects on your behalf. If you have questions…



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    Literary Journals & Events

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    descant A forum for fiction and poetry, descant seeks high-quality work in either innovative or traditional forms. Fiction is usually 5000 words or fewer, and poems sixty lines or fewer. We do, however, occasionally accept submissions exceeding these lengths. descant specifies no particular subject matter or style. Please submit only one story and no more than five…


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    Community Workshops

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    SUMMER 2019 Creative Writing: Comic Books and Graphic Fiction: Grades 6-11 July 15-19, 1:00-4:00 pm What makes a hero? How do you write and draw a comic book? Students in this course will experiment with comics as a means of understanding the development of the hero and his journey. The emphasis will be on generating compelling…


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    German

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    Sample Assignment: German Project Type: Video Submitted by: Cynthia Chappa Class: German Politics, Culture & Language (GRMN 30063) Time Commitment: 1-2 weeks Difficulty: Beginner – No prior experience necessary Assignment Description: Students produce a 3-4 minute documentary-style multimedia portrait of a current prominent German political figure.   All text and commentary should be in German.  The project is evaluated on…


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    THATCamp Feminisms

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    The New Media Writing Studio at Texas Christian University hosted THATCamp Feminisms Texas 2015 on Saturday, March 28, 2015 (8:30 am-5:30 pm). In picking Feminisms as our theme for THATCamp, we hoped to bring together people interested in feminisms and/or digital humanities. We especially sought attendees who could broaden our scope of inquiry beyond the “ivory tower” of…


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    Digital Humanities Speaker Series

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    Continuing the conversation with experts in the field Created in Spring 2012, the Digital Humanities Speaker Series brings in teachers/scholars working in Digital Humanities and new media. At its core, Digital Humanities is interdisciplinary, uniting scholars from literature, rhetoric & composition, history, geography, linguistics, and more with scholars from computer science, and information science. In…


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    Graduate Certificate in New Media Composing & Teaching

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    UPDATE: The Center for Digital Expression has discontinued its Graduate Certificate Program. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact cdex@tcu.edu. The information below is for archival purposes. Purpose To help TCU graduate students and postdoctoral fellows document their use of new media for teaching, scholarship and service. No specific workshops or courses are required. Students…