Synopsis
Recipient of the 2025 Divergent Award for Excellence in Literacy in a Digital Age Research Publication
Teaching Literacy Online is a practical guide for secondary and college teachers of English in digital and online environments. Like other, practical, “how to teach online" books, TLO includes an overview of good practices and guidelines for teaching in digital environments. However, it goes further, by providing detailed suggestions and examples to model good digital teaching practices. You'll learn how to apply the online teaching guidelines through:
- Digital organization;
- Engagement with materials;
- Analysis and synthesis of information; and
- The production of texts in a multitude of media and modalities.
By focusing on the engagement, analysis, and production of texts, TLO positions literacy pedagogy as the driving force when making decisions about how to teach online and/or with different digital applications.
About the Authors
Rochelle (Shelley) Rodrigo is the senior director of the Writing Program; professor in the Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English (RCTE) program; writing scholar (continuing status) in the Department of English; and affiliate faculty with the School of Information at the University of Arizona. She researches how “newer” technologies better facilitate communicative interactions, specifically teaching and learning. As well as co-authoring three editions of The Wadsworth/Cengage Guide to Research, she also co-edited Rhetorically Rethinking Usability (Hampton Press). Her scholarly work has appeared in journals such as Composition Forum, Composition Studies, Computers and Composition, C&C Online, Technical Communication Quarterly, and Teaching English in the Two-Year College¸ as well as various edited collections. In 2022, she became a research associate with The Readability Consortium and a distinguished fellow in the Center for University Education Scholarship (CUES) at the University of Arizona. In 2021, she was elected vice president (of the National Council of Teachers of English and won the Arizona Technology in Education Association’s Ruth Catalano Friend of Technology Innovation Award. In 2018, she became an Adobe Education Leader. In 2014, she was awarded Old Dominion University’s annual Teaching with Technology Award. In 2012, she received the Digital Humanities High Powered Computing Fellowship. And, in 2010, she became a Google Certified Teacher/Innovator.
Catrina Mitchum is adjuncting as associate professor with University of Maryland Global Campus. She has been designing and teaching and online learning experiences since 2009. She’s been awarded various teaching awards, including one in professional and technical writing and another for collaborative teaching. She has taught first-year writing courses, upper-level undergraduate courses in professional and technical writing, and introduction to research courses, entirely online. Her research interests are in retention, design and delivery of online writing classes, and teaching with technology. She has scholarly work published in Currents in Teaching and Learning, Composition Forum, and The Journal of Teaching and Learning with Technology, among other journals and edited collections. She was awarded, with other scholars, the CCCC Research Initiative Grant in 2018 and a Digital Learning Tech Seed Grant in 2021, and in 2021–2022, she was an Inclusive Leadership Fellow.
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