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DMAC SCHEDULE 2013

Monday, 13 May | Tuesday, 14 May | Wednesday, 15 May | Thursday, 16 May | Friday, 17 May | Saturday, 18 May | Sunday, 19 May | Monday, 20 May | Tuesday, 21 May | Wednesday, 22 May | Thursday, 23 May| Friday, May 24

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Monday, 13 May
Why English Teachers Should Think about Digital Technology, Design, and Multimodal Composition

New Assignments:

• Audio Assignment Task 1: Literacy Narrative
• Assignment: Your DMAC Institute Project

Focal Readings:

• Daley, Elizabeth. “Expanding the Concept of Literacy,” EDUCAUSE Review 38.2, 003. 33-40. Print/PDF.
• Selber, Stuart. “Reimagining Computer Literacy.” Multiliteracies for a Digital Age. Carbondale: SIU Press, 2004. 1-29. Print/PDF.

Selections from The Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives:

• Anonymous. "I am A Creative Being." DALN, 2009. Web.
• Anonymous. "The Lost Art of Note Passing." DALN, 2012.Web.
• Faulk, Chris. "Sword Drill." DALN, 2012. Web.
• Streets, Darius. "My Introduction to Love." DALN, 2009. Web.

Resources:

• Audacity 2.0.3 Manual on Sourceforge
• If needed, download Audacity software from http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
• Instructions from Audacity WIki about installing the LAME Encoder library and the FFMPEG library

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:

Evening:       Join us at Mad Mex to celebrate the beginning of DMAC! (Google Map: 1542 N High St, in the South Campus Gateway)

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Tuesday, 14 May
How Audio, Video, and Comics Might Change the Way We Think About Composition

New Assignments:

• Audio Assignment Task 2: PSA for the DALN (PDF document)
• File 1 for Audio Assignment Task: Intro Voice Bumper (MP3 Audio)
• File 2 for Audio Assignment Task: End Voice Bumper (MP3 Audio)
• File 3 for Audio Assignment Task: Winter Chimes (MP3 Audio)
• Video Assignment Task: DMAC Concept in 60 (PDF) or (Word .doc)

Image and Location Permission Release Forms:

• Image permission release [PDF]
• Location use release [Word .DOC]

Focal Readings:

• 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.
• McCloud, Scott. “Blood in the Gutter” and “Time Frames.”Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. New York: William Morrow Paperbacks, 2004. 60-117. Print/PDF.

Inspiration: Concept in 60

• 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:

• The New London Group. “A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies: Designing Social Futures.” Harvard Education Review 66.1 (1996): 60-92. Print/PDF.

DALN Submission Resources:

• Visit the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives at http://daln.osu.edu/
• Text-and-image instructions for submitting narratives to the DALN (PDF)
• YouTube video walk-through of the DALN Submission Process

iMovie Resources:

• iMovie '09 Handout by Tim Jensen, also useful for iMovie '11 (PDF)
• iMovie '11 Advanced Features Handout by Krista Bryson (.DOC)

Schedule:

Evening: Lab Hours 5pm-10pm (DE 343) {Annie & Mollie}

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Wednesday, 15 May
Navigating the Public Domain, Creative Commons, and Remix

Resources:

• Scott's directions for sharing and cooking files made in iMovie [PDF]

Focal Readings:

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

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. Video: "Building on the Past.” Creative Commons, 2006. Web.
  
  • Comic: “A Spectrum of Rights.” Creative Commons. Web.
    
  • Comic: "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.

Supplemental Materials:

• Blank video storyboards in four different formats

Schedule:

Evening:  Lab Hours 5pm-10pm (DE 343) {Annie & Mollie}

Homework: Finish Concept in 60 videos by Thursday, May 16 at 9:00 a.m.!

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Thursday, 16 May
Perspectives on Learning and Multimedia

Assignment Due Today:

• Concept in 60 Videos, due by 9:00 am to the Denney Hall LAN folder /DMAC 2013/Concept in 60 Final/

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. "Chapter 4: Directing Attention: Multitasking, Foraging, Oscillating." [Word .DOC] Print.

Additional Readings:

• Palmeri, Jason. "Creative Translations: Reimagining the Process Movement (1971-84)." Remixing Composition: A History of Multimodal Pedagogy. Carbondale, SIUP: 23-50. Print.

Schedule:

Evening: Picnic party at Scott DeWitt's house starts at 7:00 pm! (Google Map: 184 E. Blake Ave, Columbus, 43202, 614-330-1329)

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Friday, 17 May
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.
• 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.
  
• 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.
  

Additional Readings:

• Bolter, Jay David, and Richard Grusin. Remediation: Understanding New Media. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999. 21-50. 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.

Photoshop Session Resources:

• Photoshop Tool Basics (Adobe .PDF, opens in new browser window)
• Working with Photoshop (Word .DOCX)

Schedule:

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Saturday, 18 May

Lab Hours: 12:00 pm-5:00 pm (DE 343) {Annie and Mollie}

Sunday, 19 May

Lab Hours: 5:00 pm-10:00 pm (DE 343) {Annie and Mollie}

Monday, 20 May
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.
  
• 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.
• 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.
  

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 Hours 5:00 pm-10:00 pm (DE 343) {Annie and Mollie}

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Tuesday, 21 May
Digital Media Scholarship and Public, Collaborative, Community Literacies

Focal Readings:

• Brueggemann, Brenda Jo. “Why I Mind.” The Information Stories Project: Sustaining Democracy in a Digital Age, 2010. YouTube. Web.
• Clifton, Jennifer, 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.
  
• Purdy, James P., and Joyce R. Walker. “Valuing Digital Scholarship: Exploring the Changing Realities of Intellectual Work.” Profession (2010): 177-195. Print/PDF.
• Yergeau, Melanie. "Disabling Composition: Toward a 21st-Century, Synaesthetic Theory of Writing." Diss. The Ohio State U, 2011. Web. This reading will be provided to participants on-site using DMAC hard drives.

Optional Readings:

• Adams, Meg. Hollow: An Interactive Documentary (web site).
• Besong, Patrick. Get Started with Video Captioning: A Beginner's Guide to Making Video Accessible. 2013. Word.

Schedule:

Evening: Party at Cindy and Dickie's house starting at 7:00 p.m. (Google Maps: 134 W. Beechwold Blvd, Columbus, OH) (Rain date, if needed: Friday.)

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Wednesday, 22 May
Considering Multimodal Research and Publication

DMAC Letters to Take Home:

• DMAC Letter to Take Home in Microsoft Word (.doc) format
• DMAC Letter to Take Home in Adobe PDF format

Focal Readings:

• 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.
  

Graduate Workshop:

• Alexander, Kara Poe. "Material Affordances: The Potential of Scrapbooks in the Composition Classroom.” Composition Forum (Spring 2013).
• Blair, Kristine, Gail Hawisher, and Cynthia Selfe. “The Electronic Landscape of Journal Editing: Computers and Composition as a Scholarly Collective.” MLA Profession (2009): 160-167. Print/PDF.
  
• Denecker, Christine, Kristine Blair, and Christine Tulley. “The Role of Narrative in Articulating the Relationship Between Feminism and Digital Literacy.” Stories That Speak To Us: Exhibits from the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives. Edited by H. Lewis Ulman, Scott Lloyd DeWitt, and Cynthia L. Selfe. Web.
• 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. Parlor Press, 2011. Print/PDF.
  

Schedule:

Lab Hours: 5:00 pm-10:00pm (DE 343)

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Thursday, 23 May

Focal Readings:

• A selection from these readings about MOOCS (a list of HTML links)

Schedule:

Evening: Lab open 5pm-10pm (DE 343)

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Friday, 24 May

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