Note: DMAC is held in Denney Hall, 164 W 17th Ave, on The Ohio State University campus

Monday 5/11

Why English Teachers Should Think about Digital Technology, Design, and Multimodal Composition

ASSIGNMENTS

• Audio Finger Exercise
• Final Project

FOCAL READINGS

• Elizabeth Daley, “Expanding the Concept of Literacy” EDUCAUSE Review 38.2 (2003)
• Stuart Selber, “Reimagining Computer Literacies” Multiliteracies for a Digital Age (Southern Illinois University Press, 2004)
• Cynthia Selfe, “The Movement of Air, the Breath of Meaning” College Composition and Communication 60.4 (2009)

OPTIONAL READINGS

• Claire Lauer, “Contending with Terms” Computers and Composition 26 (2009)
• John Soloman, “Pulling Back the Curtain” On the Media (NPR, 2007)
• Philip Tagg, “Reading Sounds, or an Essay on Sounds, Music, Knowledge, Rock, and Society” (1987)

DALN SELECTIONS

• Anonymous, “I am a Creative Being” (2009)
• Anonymous, “The Lost Art of Note Passing” (2012)
• Chris Faulk, “Sword Drill” (2012)
• Darius Streets, “My Introduction to Love” (2009)

Tuesday 5/12

Using Images and Video to Think About Multimodal Composition

ASSIGNMENTS

• Video Finger Exercise

FOCAL READINGS

• Scott McCloud, “Blood in the Gutter” Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (William Morrow, 2004)
• Scott McCloud, “Time Frames” Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (William Morrow, 2004)
• The New London Group, “A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies” Harvard Educational Review 66.1 (1996)

VIDEO RESOURCES

• Image Release Form
• Location Release Form

Wednesday 5/13

Perspectives on Learning and Teaching with Multimedia

ASSIGNMENTS

• Concept in 60

FOCAL READINGS

• Nicholas Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” The Atlantic (2008)
• Scott DeWitt, “Optimistic Reciprocities” Stories That Speak to Us (Computers and Composition Digital Press, 2013)
• Dan Keller, “Directing Attention” Chasing Literacy (Utah State University Press, 2014)

OPTIONAL READINGS

• Jason Palmeri, “Creative Translations” Remixing Composition: A History of Multimodal Pedagogy (Southern Illinois University Press, 2012)

CONCEPT IN 60 INSPIRATION

• Everynone, “Radiolab Presents Symmetry” (2011)
• Everynone, “Radiolab and NPR Present Words” (2010)
• Everynone, “Radiolab and NPR Present Parabolas” (2009)

Thursday 5/14

Understanding the Public Domain, Creative Commons, and Remix

FOCAL READINGS

• Brett Gaylor, RiP! A Remix Manifesto (TDC Entertainment, 2014)
• Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture (Penguin Press, 2004): read chapters 6 and 7
• Crystal VanKooten, Handout on Copyright Law and Fair Use (word format)

WORKSHOP READINGS

• Kristine Blair, Gail Hawisher, and Cynthia Selfe, “The Electronic Landscape of Journal Editing” Profession (2009)
• Valerie Lee and Cynthia Selfe, “Our Capacious Caper” ADE Bulletin 145 (2008)
• James Purdy and Joyce Walker, “Valuing Digital Scholarship” Profession (2010)

WORKSHOP CASE STUDIES

Friday 5/15

Invention and Idea Generation for Multimodal Composing

ASSIGNMENTS

• Final Project

FOCAL READINGS

• Claire Lauer, “High-Tech Invention” Journal of Business and Technical Communication (2015)
• Claire Lauer, Invention Handout (as a word doc)

FINAL PROJECT INSPIRATION

• Cardinal Compositions: A Print and Digital Journal of Undergraduate Student Work (founded by a University of Louisville team @ DMAC 2014)
• Ryan Sloan, “THE PROJECT, in three stages” (2014)
• Dianna Williams, “Project 2: On the Dance Floor” (2013)

Saturday 5/16

Invention for the Final Project

Sunday 5/17

Invention for the Final Project

Monday 5/18

Assessing and Evaluating Multimodal Compositions

FOCAL READINGS

• Charles Moran and Anne Herrington, “Seeking Guidance for Assessing Digital Compositions/Composing” Digital Writing Assessment & Evaluation (Computers and Composition Digital Press, 2013)
• Crystal VanKooten, “Toward a Rhetorically Sensitive Assessment Model for New Media Composition” Digital Writing Assessment & Evaluation (Computers and Composition Digital Press, 2013)
• Emily Wierszewski, “Something Old, Something New: Evaluative Criteria in Teacher Responses to Student Multimodal Texts” Digital Writing Assessment & Evaluation (Computers and Composition Digital Press, 2013)
• Sean Zdenek, “Which Sounds Are Significant? Towards a Rhetoric of Closed Captioning” Disability Studies Quarterly 31.3 (2011)

OPTIONAL READINGS

• Patrick Besong, “Get Started with Video Captioning: A Beginner’s Guide to Making Video Accessible” (2013) large file

Tuesday 5/19

Access and Design

FOCAL READINGS

• Amy Lueck and Shyam Sharma, “Writing a Translingual Script: Closed Captions in the English Multilingual Hearing Classroom” Kairos 17.3 (2013)
• Tara Wood and Shannon Madden, “Suggested Practices for Syllabus Accessibility Statements” Kairos 18.1 (2013)
• Melanie Yergeau, et. al. “Multimodality in Motion: Disability & Kairotic Spaces” Kairos 18.1 (2013)

OPTIONAL READINGS

• Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis, “Designs for Social Futures” Multiliteracies (Routledge, 2000)
• Susan Miller-Cochran and Dana Gierdowski, “Making Peace with the Rising Costs of Writing Technologies: Flexible Classroom Design as a Sustainable Solution” Computers and Composition 30.1 (2013)

Wednesday 5/20

Queer Meditations on Multimodality and Writing the Self

FOCAL READINGS

• Jonathan Alexander and Jacqueline Rhodes, Introduction to Techne: Queer Meditations on Writing the Self (Computers and Composition Digital Press, forthcoming)
• Jonathan Alexander, “Genealogies” Techne: Queer Meditations on Writing the Self (Computers and Composition Digital Press, forthcoming)

WORKSHOP READINGS

• Jonathan Alexander, “Direct to Video: Rewriting the Literacy Narrative” On Multimodality: New Media in Composition Studies (CCCC/NCTE, 2014)
• Jonathan Alexander, “Glenn Gould and the Rhetorics of Sound” Computers and Composition (forthcoming)
• Jonathan Alexander and Jacqueline Rhodes, “Queerness, Multimodality, and the Possibilities of Re/Orientation” Composing (Media)=Composing (Embodiment): Bodies, Technologies, Writing, the Teaching of Writing (Utah State UP, 2012)

OPTIONAL READINGS

• “Transcription // Translation” This Rhetorical Life 28 (23 April 2015) for Brenda’s session

RESOURCES

• DMAC Letter for Home

Thursday 5/21

Community, Race, and Digital/Multimodal Composition

FOCAL READINGS

• Krista Bryson, “The Literacy Myth in the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives” Computers and Composition 29 (2012)
• Katie Comer and Michael Harker, “The Pedagogy of the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives: A Survey” Computers and Composition 35 (2015)
• “English 367: Collecting the Literacy Narratives of Black Columbus” (2011)
• Erica Womack, “Terrence and Tori Tate” English 367: Collecting the Literacy Narratives of Black Columbus (2011)

OPTIONAL READINGS

• Some DALN Favorites: here and here
• Shyam Sharma, “MOOCing a Meme: Contexts Matter” (blog post) for Shyam’s session
• Bailey, Moya, “All the Digital Humanists Are White, All the Nerds Are Men, but Some of Us Are Brave” Journal of Digital Humanities 1.1 (2011)
• Tim Sherratt, “It’s All About the Stuff: Collections, Interfaces, Power, People” Journal of Digital Humanities 1.1 (2011)

Friday 5/22

Final Project Showcase and Goodbyes