Multimodal Writing

Multimodality Theory

Video: Richard E. Miller: 2008 MLA Presidential Address: This is How We Dream: Pt. 1

Video: Richard E. Miller: 2008 MLA Presidential Address: Thiis is How We Dream, Pt. 2

Kress, G. (2006) Reading Images: Multimodality, Representation and New Media

Liu, A. (2008). Imagining the new media encounter. In A companion to digital literary studies, Blackwell Press.

MIT OpenCourseWare: From print to digital media

Debra Journet, Tabetha Adkins, Chris Alexander, Patrick Corbett, Ryan Trauman,Digital Mirrors: Multimodal Reflection, Computers and Composition Online, Spring, 2008

Troy Hicks, Central Michigan University, Multiteracies Meets English Education Methods, Slideshare presentation

Interactive Multimedia Technology blog

Examples of Multimodal Digital Writing

Angelica's Digital Story

Students in David Mason’s composition class at Cooper High School, Robbinsdale, Minnesota, remixed advertising images to parody messages. Chris T created the following an ad

parodying smoking ads

Rebecca Leibing, Sunoco

Adrienne Broch, der panther

Teaching Multimodal Writing

Mary Wright, Multimodal Trans(ACT)ions with Literature through the Creation of a Zine

Sample chapter: Janet Evans, Multimodal Texts, Literacy Moves On

Popular Culture, New Technologies, and Critical Literacy in the Elementary Classroom, Heinemann

http://www.heinemann.com/shared/products/E00738.asp

Sample chapter, Making a Multimodal Argument, Cheryl Johnson, Jayne Moneysmith, Multiple Genres, Multiple Voices: Teaching Argument in Composition and Literature, Boynton/Cook

http://www.heinemann.com/shared/products/0547.asp

Teaching Writing

Trailer: Todd Taylor: Take 20: Teachers talking about teaching writing