Print-based projects
Students can explore the rhetorical advantages and disadvantages of different varieties of visual design by utilizing the graphics, design and desktop publishing programs available on all CWRL computers--programs such as Flash, Fireworks, and Photoshop. They can explore the rhetorical possibilities inherent in print document design using such desktop publishing programs as InDesign.

Web-based projects
In-class web exercises and web-authoring projects engage students while allowing instructors to focus the class' scrutiny on rhetorical principles. The web can bring a wide variety of materials from the outside world into the classroom, and enable students to interact with and receive feedback from many non-academic sources. Students can analyze the political rhetoric of campaign sites, discuss the rhetorical impact of design principles, compare competing discourses, sample newsgroup and bulletin board discussions--imagination being perhaps the only limiting factor to pedagogical possibilities of the Internet.

Multimedia projects
Advanced users can create interactive, multimedia teaching materials that integrate text, sound, graphics, and video with such professional-quality programs as Director, Premier, Peak, or iMovie.

MOO-based projects
The CWRL's Mappe Mundi is a web-based virtual environment where students and teachers can explore and create shared worlds, interact with a variety of responsive characters, find pockets of learning tools and activities, and meet with others in "MOO-space" for classes, collaboration, and discussion. Instructors of rhetoric are finding that role-playing exercises in this environment are an extremely helpful way to give students a deeper appreciation of positionality, audience, and context as they put themselves in the position of the players in a given social situation or issue. See the MOO Resources page.