Using multimodal assignments have to be planned out well when introducing them to your students. The students need to have full access to computers and applications that will assist in completing the assignment. Video, audio, and words can be used in planning, editing, and composing. The students needs to understand the purpose for the task and figure out what will be their purpose and audience. Students are knowledgeable of how to complete the writing process to product easily because that is the way that they have been trained. Using the technology will be a challenge. The chapter made me think about my sophomore year of college. I was required to take a communications course, and my professor required the class to create a memoir. We were required to use all of the components that are studied in this chapter. Everything was digital. Video was used to reflect on your journals, Audio was used to introduce yourself, and the words were used as we used word processing to express our thoughts on a weekly basis. The professor's syllabi was long because of all the instructions for the technology. I have to say that this was not an easy task, but it was quite interesting. There are many challenges in teaching writing using multimodel assignments, but it is rewarding to the students.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Chapter 2 MC: Words, Audio, and Video: Composing and the Processes of Production
Citation: Selfe, Cynthia, Stephanie Fleischer, Susan Wright. “Words, Audio, and Video: Composing and the Processes of Production.” Multimodal Composition: Resources for Teachers. Hampton Press, Cresskill, New Jersey, 2007. 13-28. Print.
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Hi, Dionne. After reading your personal narrative about composing a multimodal memoir using technologies that your instructor chose for you, I thought about the emphasis in Chapter 3 on allowing students to choose the mode(s) they feel will best communicate their ideas for a particular composition. I wonder if you feel that you benefited more by being required to use video and audio or if you would have chosen one or the other to convey your memoir. Do you think being immersed in the waters of multimodality may have actually helped accelerate the rate at which you improved in using each different mode? Just wondering...:)
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