I tried to search for "multimodality"; however I couldn't find it (just as Barry Maid said when I was chatting with him about our field--it appears no one else uses the world outside of our discipline). So I decided that multimedia would be closest.
Shelley Rodrigo's List: Cengage Team Up English Event: San Antonio
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Day 1: Thursday February 18, 2010
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We were asked to come up with one word that encapsulates "issues" in Composition today. I came up with "Relevance"
1 a : relation to the matter at hand b : practical and especially social applicability : pertinence <giving relevance to college courses>
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In our "Research" table someone mentioned using this video to launch a project for students.
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Cindy Graff Cohen shared this cover during her session "Technology in the Writing Class: Changing for the Better?"
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In this year's report mobile computing is projected as emerging in the next year.
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This year's study includes in depth analysis of mobile device usage.
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Steven Pinker came up in a discussion about the "change" of language from technology (aka, mobile/texting/IMing).
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I discussed an activity where I have students take notes from their reading in a mindmap using MindMeister.
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I discussed how I had students make 30 second image interpretations of quotations. I use animoto as the technology (telling students to find Creative Commons images in Flickr and use the Creative Commons music at Animoto).
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Day 2: Friday February 19, 2010
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Maria Jerskey's Keynote
Maria Jerskey uses map metaphor to talk about where we are and where we want to go. (satellite image of San Antonio)
Our students are increasingly:
*Multilingual: David Graddol in The Future of English (1997) discovered that more people speak English as a second or third language than those who are native speakers. Later study (English Next) argues that English is not becoming the main language, other languages are starting to be more prevalent: Chines, Spanish, Hindi, etc.
* Multiliterate
*Multimodal: will we be teaching design instead of writing? with technologies we have more writers & readers
Jerskey shows us an image of layered maps representing the various students, where they come from and where they want to go.
Warning of the Dark side...the abyss.
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Maria is giving the keynote presentation: Teaching Composition in the 21st Century: Mapping a Landscape that Keeps on Changing
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Multilingualism is the use of two or more languages, either by an individual speaker or by a community of speakers. Multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population.[1]
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Multiliteracies is a term coined by the New London Group.[1] Because the way people communicate is changing due to new technologies, and shifts in the usage of the English language within different cultures, a new "literacy" must also be used and developed.
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Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun (a medium with multiple content forms) or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which only use traditional forms of printed or hand-produced material. Multimedia includes a combination of text, audio, still images, animation, video, and interactivity content forms.
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Can You Digg It? Presentation
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This is the specific event page for my presentation "Can You Digg It? Composing Research in the 21st Century"
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This section of the page is an embedded Google Document
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canyoudiggit
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Doug Eyman's Digital Writing / Digital Rhetoric Presentation
Some premises: Writing is a Technology and Writing is Visual
Doug showed us seven different "texts" and asked if it is "writing" and if we would "teach" it. The texts:
Facebook Note;
Twitter Stream;
Image of pictures with an equal sign "connecting" them;
Image w/text;
Mother of All Funk Chords (video mix of clips to create audio & visual composition);
World of Warcraft Too Sexy (copyright issues)
The presidents by Jonathan Coulton (CC song, still copyright issues w/images)
re: Your Brains (CC song, lose copyright issue w/images)
Doug suggests the following ways to promote digital rhetoric: community, critical engagement, practice/praxis -
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Doug asked us to consider if this video is "writing" and if we would "teach it"
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A list of resources that either were mentioned or that I looked up based on discussions at the event.
Updated on Feb 19, 10
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