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THURSDAY, 31 May

Touchstone Texts: Making a brief/case for multimodal literacy

Daley, Elizabeth (2003) “Expanding the Concept of Literacy,” EDUCAUSE Review, p. 33-40.

Brandt, Deborah (1995).  “Accumulating Literacy:  Writing and Learning to Write in the Twentieth Century,” College English, 57(6), p. 649-668.

Solomon, John. " Pulling Back the Curtain."   On the Media, from NPR.

Schedule

8:30am-9:30am—Welcome and DMAC introduction (DE 311) {Cindy, Scott}
9:30am-10:30am—Why multimodal? composition? (DE 343) {Cindy}
10:30am-10:45am—Break
10:45am-12:00pm—Introduction to Institute assignment (DE 343) Making a Case for Mulimodality {Cindy, Scott}
12:00pm-1:30pm—Lunch
1:30pm-2:30—Blogging during DMAC {Erin, Greg} Go to DMAC blog > > >
2:30-2:45 Break
2:45-5:00pm—Making a case for multimodality with audio (DE 343) {Cindy, Scott}

Evening:  Cocktails

 


FRIDAY, 1 June

Touchstone Texts:  case for multimodality with video

Takayoshi, Pamela and Selfe, Cynthia L. (2006) "Thinking about Multimodality "   

Kitchen Sisters (Producer) (28 April 2000). "French Manicure"  NPR>Lost and Found Sound.

Schedule

8:30am-9:00am—DMAC business (DE 311)
9:00am-10:00am—Discussion of touchstone readings for yesterday and today (DE 311)
10:00am-11:00am—Making a case for multimodality with audio, con't. (DE 343) {Cindy, Scott}
11:00am-11:15am—Break
11:15am-12:30pm—Making a case for multimodality with video (DE 311, DE 343) {Erin, Scott}
12:30pm-2:00pm—Lunch
2:00pm-5:00pm—Making a case for multimodality with video, con't. (DE 311, DE 343) {Erin, Scott}

Homework: 

Blog (reflection on your DMAC experience, responses to one or more of the readings)

 

 

 


SATURDAY, 2 June

Touchstone Texts:  Making a case for multimodality with video, con't.

Cone, Justin (2006).  "Building on the Past" Creative Commons Web site.

"A Spectrum of Rights" (n.d.). Creative Commons Web site.

"How It Works" (n.d.).  Creative Commons Web site.

Bound By Law: Tales from the Public Domain

Schedule

9:00am-9:30am DMAC business (DE 311)
9:30am-10:30am--Discussion of touchstone readings (DE 311)
10:30am-10:45am--Break
10:45am-1:30pm-Making a case for multimodality with video, con't. (DE 311, DE 343) {Erin, Scott}

Homework: 

Blog (reflection on your DMAC experience, responses to one or more of the readings)

 

Evening: Gallery Hop

Short North Arts District

 


 

MONDAY, 4 June

Touchstone Texts:  Making a case for multimodality with design

"Web 2.0...The Machine is Us/ing Us"

"The Sonic Memorial Project"

"360 degrees"

"Writing With Video--Art 199"

 

Schedule

8:30am-9:00am—DMAC business (DE 311)
9:00am-10:00am—Discusssing Touchstone Readings (DE 311)
10:00am-10:15am--Break
10:15-12:00pm--Dreamweaver workshop (DE 324) {Scott}
12:00pm-1:30 pm—Lunch
1:30pm-3:30pm—Studio Session (DE 307, DE 311 [reserved @ 3:30pm] , DE 316, DE 324, DE 343)
1:30 pm-2:30 pm—Breakout Session: Photoshop (DE 307) {Scott}
3:30-5:00pm--Turning the corner: Focusing your case (DE 343)
      

     

Homework: 

Blog (reflection on your DMAC experience, responses to one or more of the readings)
Compose interview questions for students

Evening:  Party at Scott DeWitt’s house

 

 


 

TUESDAY, 5 June

Touchstone Texts:  Making a rhetorical case for multimodality

Selfe, Cynthia (2006) The Movement of Air, The Breath of Meaning Aurality and Multimodal Composing

Valerie Lee video: "The Changing Nature of Literacy"

Schedule

8:30am-9:00am—DMAC business (DE 311)
9:00am-10:00am—Discusssing Touchstone Readings (DE 311)
10:00am-10:30am--Dr. Valerie Lee, Chair, Department of English, OSU
10:30am-10:45--Break
10:45am-11:45am--Dr. H. Lewis Ulman, Assistant Dean, "Making the case to administrators" (DE 343)
11:45am-1pm--Lunch
1:00pm-5:00pm—Studio and student interview session (DE 311, DE 316, DE 324, DE 343)

Homework: 

Blog (reflection on your DMAC experience, responses to one or more of the readings)
Compose interview questions for teachers

Evening: Open

 


 

WEDNESDAY, 6 June

Touchstone Texts:  More about making a rhetorical case for multimodality

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

Cope and Kalantzis.

 

Schedule

8:30am-9:00am—DMAC Business (DE 311)
9:00am-10:00am—Discussion of Touchstone Readings (DE 311)
10:00am-12:00pm--Interviewing teachers {Cindy, Scott}
12:00pm-1:30pm—Lunch
1:30-2:30pm--Designing your case for multimodality (DE 311) {Cheryl}
2:30pm-5:00pm—Studio session (DE 311, DE 316, DE 324, DE 343)
3:30-4:30pm—Breakout Session: Wikis (DE 307) {Dickie Selfe}

 

Homework: 

Blog (reflection on your DMAC experience, responses to one or more of the readings)

 

Evening: Open

 


 

THURSDAY, 7 June  

Touchstone Texts:  Assignments and Assessment

Huot, Brian and Borton, Sonya C.  (forthcoming, 2006). “Responding and Assessing.” In C. Selfe’s Multimodal Composition:  Resources for Teachers.  Hampton Press.

Monroe, Barbara, Crossing the Digital Divide:  Race, Writing, and Technology in the Classroom (excerpt).   New York:  Teachers College Press, 2004.

 

Schedule

8:30-8:45am—DMAC Business (DE 311)
8:45amam-9:45am--Discussion of Touchstone Readings (DE 311)
10:00am-11:00am--Dr. Dickie Selfe, "Making the Case to Other Stake Holders." (DE 343)
11:00am-5:00pm—Lunch and Studio Session (DE 311, DE 316, DE 324, DE 343)

 Evening:  Party at Cindy and Dickie's house (map)

 


 

FRIDAY 8 June

Touchstone Texts:  Thinking Rhetorically

Banks, Adam.  Race, Rhetoric, and Technology:  Searching for Higher Ground (excerpt).
Mahwah, NJ:  NCTE/LEA, 2006.

Brock, Andre,(2005).  "'A Belief in Humanity Is a Belief in Colored Men':  Using Culture to Span the Digital Divide".  Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(1), pp. 357-374.

Nelson, Alondra.  "Introduction:  Future Texts," Social Text, Summer 2002, pp 1-16.

Sinclair, Bruce.  "Integrating the Histories of Race and Technology." Technology and the African American Experience.  Cambridge:  MIT, 2004 (pp 1-19).

Miller, Pul (aka DJ Spooky). "Yet Do I Wonder:."  Dark Matter:  A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora.  New York:  Warner Books, 2000.

 

Schedule

8:30am-9:00am—DMAC Business (DE 311)
9:00-10:00—Discussing Touchstone Readings (DE 311)
10:00am-10:15am—Break
10:15am-11:30am—Dr. Adam Banks (DE 343 or DE 311)
11:30 am-5:00 pm—Lunch and Studio session (DE 307, DE 311, DE 316, DE 324, DE 343)

Evening—Studio work for participants.

Homework: 

 

Blog (reflection on your DMAC experience, responses to one or more of the readings)

 


 

SATURDAY and SUNDAY 9-10 June 

The Columbus Arts Festival

The Fabulous Johnson Brothers @ Park Street Tavern, Saturday

Homework: 

Blog (reflection on your DMAC experience, responses to one or more of the readings)

 


 

MONDAY, 11 June 

 

Touchstone Texts:  Politics of Technology

Blackmon, Samantha (2003).  “But I’m Just White or How “Other” Pedagogies can Benefit All Students.” In P. Takayoshi and B. Huot’s Teaching Writing with Computers:  An Introduction.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflinp. 92-102.

 

Schedule

8:30am-9:00am—DMAC Business (DE 311)
9:00am-10:00pm--Tying up loose ends (DE 311)
10:00am-12:00—Studio session (DE 307, DE 311, DE 316, DE 324, DE 343)
12:00pm-1:30pm--Lunch
1:30pm-5:00pm--Studio session (DE 307, DE 311, DE 316, DE 324, DE 343)

 


 

TUESDAY, 12 June 

Schedule

8:30am-9:00am—DMAC Business (DE 311)
9:00am-12:00—Showcase