MultimodalWriting

Multimodality Theory

• Video: Writing as Making/Making as Writing: Connected Learning  
• 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. 
• Troy Hicks, Central Michigan University, Multiteracies Meets English Education Methods, Slideshare presentation
• Interactive Multimedia Technology blog

 

Examples of Multimodal Digital Writing

• Beth Holland, Redefining the Writing Process of Writing with iPads.  Edutopia 
• The Future of Reading and Writing is Collaborative  

 

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

• Kate Chaterdon and Katie Silvester: Mindful Writer/Embodied Writer: Universal Design and Multimodal Argument: assignments on multimodality and disabilities. KAIROS PraxisWiki
• 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