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DMAC SCHEDULE 2012

Welcome, DMAC 2012 participants! Our schedule is still taking shape and some readings are not yet available, but when possible, we have included links for those who wish to begin reading. Thanks for your patience as we flesh out the calendar! --DMAC Staff, 4/11/2012

THURSDAY, 31 May
Why English Teachers Should Think about Digital Technology, Design, and Multimodal Composition

Focal Readings:

• Daley, Elizabeth. “Expanding the Concept of Literacy,” EDUCAUSE Review 38.2 (2003): 33-40. Print/PDF.
• Selber, Stuart. “Reimagining Computer Literacy.” Multiliteracies for a Digital Age. Carbondale: SIU Press, 2004. 1-29. Print/PDF.
• Wysocki, Anne. “Openings and Justifications.” Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Logan: Utah State UP, 2004. 1-23. Print/PDF.

• Soonasra, Kulsum. “Gujarati to English.” DALN, 2010. Web.
• Mahammed, Deqa. “My Mother’s Struggle.” DALN, 2009. Web.
  
• Schikora, Emily. “Literacy as Transformation.” DALN, 2011. Web.
• Rotheram, Laura. "Almost Pretty." DALN, 2012. Web.

Additional Readings:

• Solomon, John. “Pulling Back the Curtain: Transcript” On the Media. NPR, 2007. Web.
  
• Tagg, Philip. “Reading Sounds or An Essay on Sounds, Music, Knowledge, Rock and Society.” 1987. Print/PDF.

Schedule for Thursday, May 31:

Evening:       Join us at Mad Mex to celebrate the beginning of DMAC!
                    (Google Map: 1542 N High St, in the South Campus Gateway)
                      Lab open from 6pm-10pm
Homework: Continue working on literacy narrative!

FRIDAY, 1 June
How Audio, Video, and Comics Might Change the Way We Think About Composition

Focal Readings:

• McCloud, Scott. “Blood in the Gutter” and “Time Frames.” Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. New York: William Morrow Paperbacks, 2004. 60-117. Print/PDF.
• Lutkenhaus, Nancy, and Jenny Cool. “Paradigms Lost and Found: The ‘Crisis of Representation’ and Visual Anthropology.” Visual Rhetoric in a Digital World: A Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Carolyn Handa. New York: Bedford/ St. Martin’s, 2004. 434-454. Print/PDF.
• Bloom, David. “Foreword: Five Ways to Read Curated Archive of Digital Literacy Narratives.” Stories that Speak to Us: Exhibits from the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives. Ed. H. Lewis Ulman, Scott Lloyd DeWitt, and Cynthia L. Selfe. Logan: Computers and Composition Digital Press. Web.
• Selfe, Cynthia. “The Movement of Air, The Breath of Meaning: Aurality and Multimodal Composing.” College Composition and Communication 60.4 (2009): 616-663. Print/PDF.

• Everynone. “Radiolab Presents Symmetry.” Youtube. RadioLab, 2011. Web.
• Everynone. “Radiolab and NPR Present Words.” Youtube. RadioLab, 2010. Web.
• Everynone. "Radiolab and NPR Present Parabolas." Youtube. Radiolab, 2009. Web.

Additional Readings:

Schedule:

SATURDAY, 2 June
Navigating the Public Domain, Creative Commons, and Remix

• Focal Readings:
  Lessig, Lawrence. “Lawrence Lessig: ‘Free Culture’: Lessig’s Book Condemns the Monopoly of Ideas.” Talk of the Nation. NPR, 2004.Web.

Additional Readings:

• Jenkins, Henry. “Quentin Tarantino’s Star Wars?” Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. New York: New York UP, 2006. 135-173. Print/PDF.
  
• Fredal, Karl. “A Conduit of Intent.” DALN, 2011. Web.
  
• Cone, Justin. “Building on the Past.” Creative Commons, 2006. Web.
  
  • “A Spectrum of Rights.” Creative Commons. Web.
    
  • “How It Works.” Creative Commons. Web.
    
• Aoki, Keith, James Boyle, and Jennifer Jenkins. Bound By Law: Tales from the Public Domain. Duke University. Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain, 2006. Web.
  
• Ulman, Louie. “[Movie] Captioning Guidelines.” Word.

Schedule:

Evening:  Enjoy Columbus!
                 Columbus Arts Festival <http://columbusartsfestival.org/>
                 Gallery Hop <http://www.shortnorth.org/news.asp?n=124>

Homework: Finish Concept in 60 videos by 8:30am Monday, 4 June!

MONDAY, 4 June

Perspectives on Learning and Multimedia

Focal Readings:

• DeWitt, Scott. "Optimistic Reciprocities: The Literacy Narratives of First-Year Writing Students.” Stories that Speak to Us: Exhibits from the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives. Ed. H. Lewis Ulman, Scott Lloyd DeWitt, and Cynthia L. Selfe. Computers and Composition Digital Press. Web.
  
• Carr, Nicholas. “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains.” The Atlantic. July/August 2008. Web.
• Keller, Dan. Reading TBA.

Schedule:

Evening: Party at Scott DeWitt's house! (Google Map: 184 E. Blake Ave, Columbus, 43202)

TUESDAY, 5 June

The Rhetoric of Design

Focal Readings:

• Norman, Donald A. “Three Levels of Design: Visceral, Behavioral, and Reflexive.” Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things. New York: Basic Books, 2004. 63-98.  Print/PDF.
  
• Anderson, Daniel. “The Low Bridge to High Benefits: Entry-Level Multimedia, Literacies, and Motivation. Computers and Composition: An International Journal 25 (2008): 40-60. Print/PDF.
  
• Yergeau, Melanie. Reading TBA.
  
• Brueggemann, Brenda Jo. “Why I Mind.” The Information Stories Project: Sustaining Democracy in a Digital Age, 2010. YouTube. Web.

Additional Readings:

• Bolter, Jay David, and Richard Grusin. Remediation: Understanding New Media. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999. 21-50. Print/PDF.
• Sheppard, Jennifer “The Rhetorical Work of Multimedia Production Practices: It’s More than Just Technical Skill.” Computers and Composition: An International Journal 26 (2009): 122-131. Print/PDF.
• Cope, Bill and Mary Kalantzis. “Design for Social Futures.”  Multiliteracies:  Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures.  Ed. Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis.  Routledge:  New York, 2000. 203-234. Print/PDF.
• Lauer, Claire. “Contending with Terms: 'Multimodal' and 'Multimedia' in the Academic and Public Sphere.” Computers and Composition: An International Journal 26 (2009): 225–239. Print/PDF.

Schedule:

Evening: Lab open from 6-10pm (DE 343)

WEDNESDAY, 6 June
Assessment in the Multimodal Composition Classroom

Focal Readings:

• Adsanatham, Chanon. “Integrating Assessment and Instruction: Using Student-Generated Grading Criteria to Evaluate Multimodal Digital Projects.” Print/PDF.
  
• Shipka, Jody. “Negotiating Rhetorical, Material, Methodological, and Technological Difference: Evaluating Multimodal Designs.” College Composition and Communication 61.1 (2009): 343-366. Print/PDF.
  
• Sorapure, Madeleine. “Between Modes: Assessing Students New Media Compositions.” Kairos. 10.2 (2006). Web.
  
• Yancey, Kathleen Blake. Looking for Sources of Coherence in a Fragmented World: Notes Toward a New Assessment Design. Computers and Composition: An International Journal 21.1 (2004): 89-102. Print/PDF.

Additional Readings:

• CCCC Committee on Teaching, Learning, and Assessing Writing in Digital Environments. "CCCC Position Statement on Teaching, Learning, and Assessing in Digital Environments." NCTE. 2004. Web.

Schedule:

Evening: Lab open 6pm-10pm (DE 343)

THURSDAY, 7 June
Digital Media Scholarship and Public, Collaborative, Community Literacies

Focal Readings:

• Clifton, Lucille, Eleanor Long, and Duane Roen. “Accessing Private Knowledge for Public Conversations: Attending to Shared, Yet-to-be-Public Concerns in the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing DALN Interviews.” Stories that Speak to Us: Exhibits from the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives. Ed. H. Lewis Ulman, Scott Lloyd DeWitt, and Cynthia L. Selfe. Computers and Composition Digital Press. Web.
  
• Banks, Adam. “Scratch: Two Turntables and a Storytelling Tradition.” and “Groove: Synchronizing African American Rhetoric and Multimedia Writing through Digital Griots.” Digital Griots. Mawah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006. 1-33. Print/PDF.
  
• Beverly Moss, Valerie Kinloch, Elaine Richardson. “Claiming Our Place on the Flo(or):  Black Women and Collaborative Literacy Narratives.” Web.

Schedule:

Evening: Party at Cindy and Dickie's house (rain date, Friday)! (Google Maps: 3114 Beechwold Blvd, Columbus, OH)

FRIDAY, 8 June

Considering Multimodal Research and Publication

Focal Readings:

• Purdy, James P., and Joyce R. Walker. “Valuing Digital Scholarship: Exploring the Changing Realities of Intellectual Work.” Profession (2010): 177-195. Print/PDF.
  
• Tulley, Christine, and Kristine Blair. "Remediating the Book Review Toward Collaboration and Multimodality across the English Curriculum" Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 9.3 (2009): 441-469. Print/PDF.
  
• Delagrange, Susan H. “Media Machines, Devices of Wonder.” Technologies of Wonder: Rhetorical Practices in a Digital World. Logan: Computers and Composition Digital Press, 2012. Web.

Additional Readings:

• Delagrange, Susan H. “Wunderkammer: Cornell and the Visual Canon of Arrangement.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 13.2 (2009). Web.

• Delagrange, Susan H. “When Revision is Redesign: Key Questions in Digital Scholarship.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 14.1 (2009). Web.
  

Schedule:

Evening: Lab Hours 6pm-10pm (DE 312, DE 343)
   

SATURDAY, 9 June
Events around Columbus:

• Rose Exhibition—Whetstone Park of Roses <http://parkofroses.org>
• For more, visit Experience Columbus <http://www.experiencecolumbus.com/event-calendar.cfm>

Lab Hours: 12pm-6pm (DE 312, DE 343)

SUNDAY, 10 June
Lab Hours: 12pm-10pm (DE 312, DE 343)

MONDAY, 11 June
Schedule:

Evening: Lab open 6pm-10pm (DE 316, DE 343)

TUESDAY, 12 June
Schedule: