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DMAC 2008 FINAL SCHEDULE (5.27.08)

Note new changes in bold 5.30.08

THURSDAY, 29 May

Daily Readings: Thinking about Multimodal Composition

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): 649-668.
Solomon, John. "Pulling Back the Curtain."   On the Media, from NPR.

Schedule:

8:30-9:30 am--Welcome and DMAC introduction (DE 311) {Cindy, Scott}
9:30-10:30 am--Why multimodal? composition? (DE 311) {Cindy}
10:30-10:45 am--Break
10:45-11:30 am--Introduction to Institute assignment:  Thinking about Multimodal Composition (DE 311) {Cindy, Scott}
11:30-12:00 pm--Audio Assignment:  Using Audio to think about multimodal composition {Cindy, Scott}
12:00-1:30 pm--Lunch
1:30-2:30 pm--Capturing Audio (DE 311) {Scott}
2:30-4:30 pm--Downloading Audio, Audacity Interface, Editing Audio (DE 343) {Scott, Cindy, Gen}
4:30pm-5:00pm--Introduction to Blogs (DE 343) {Gen}

Evening:  Cocktails at Mad Mex (1542 N. High St.)
                       


FRIDAY, 30 May

Daily Readings: Using video to think about multimodal composition

Takayoshi, Pamela and Selfe, Cynthia L. (2006) "Thinking about Multimodality".  
Kitchen Sisters (Producer) (28 April 2000). "French Manicure"  NPR>Lost and Found Sound.
“A Vision of Students Today” by Michael Wesch
"Web 2.0...The Machine is Us/ing Us"  by Michael Wesch
Berry, Patrick.  “Multimodal in 60 seconds

Schedule:

8:30am-9:00am--DMAC business (DE 311)
9:00am-10:00am--Discussion of daily readings for yesterday and today (DE 311)
10:00am-11:00am--Using audio to think about multimodal composition, con't. (DE 343) {Cindy, Scott}
11:00am-11:15am--Break
11:15am-12:30pm--Using video to think about multimodal composition (DE 311) {Erin, Scott}
12:30pm-2:00pm--Lunch
2:00pm-5:00pm--Using video to think about multimodal composition, con't. (DE 343, 307) {Erin, Scott}

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



SATURDAY, 31 May

Daily Readings: Using video to think about multimodal composition, 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 Daily  readings (DE 311)
10:30am-10:45am--Break
10:45am-1:30pm--Using video to think about multimodal composition, cont. (DE 307, DE 343) {Erin, Scott}

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

Evening: Enjoy Columbus!


MONDAY, 2 June

Daily Readings: Using design to think about multimodal composition

"Web 2.0...The Machine is Us/ing Us"
"The Sonic Memorial Project"
"360 degrees"
"Writing With Video--Art 199"
Journet, Debra, Tabetha Adkins, Chris Alexander, Patrick Corbett, and Ryan Trauman.  “Digital Mirrors: Multimodal Reflection in the Composition Classroom.”  Computers and Composition Online http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/Digital_Mirrors/
Lorca, Garcia.  Sophie Demo Book
Tagg, Philip.  “Reading Sound"

Schedule

8:30am-9:00am--DMAC business (DE 311)
9:00am-10:00am--Discussing Daily  Readings (DE 311)
10:00am-10:15am--Break
10:15-12:00pm--Sophie workshop (SEL 060) {Cindy and Cormac}
12:00pm-1:30 pm--Lunch
12:00pm-1:30pm--Optional Brown Bag Lunch: Professionalization/Job Market with Cheryl Ball
1:30pm-3:30pm--Studio Session (DE 311, SEL 060)
1:30 pm-3:00 pm--Breakout Session: Photoshop and GIMP (DE 343) {DMP Staff}
1:30pm-2:00pm--Using Blogs with Scott
3:30-5:00pm--Turning the corner: Focusing your project (DE 343) {Cindy}

Homework: Blog post (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 (184 E. Blake Ave Columbus, OH 43202) 
(Google Maps Link)


TUESDAY, 3 June

Daily Readings: Thinking about multimodal composition rhetorically

Selfe, Cynthia (2006) "The Movement of Air, The Breath of Meaning Aurality and Multimodal Composing."
Raney, Carter.  “New English, New Media:  The RAW Interview.”  Reading and Writing New Media.  Cresskill, NJ:  Hampton Press.  Forthcoming.
Selfe, Richard and Cynthia Selfe.  “Convince me!” Valuing Multimodal Literacies and Composing Public Service Announcements (PSAs) Article data file

Schedule

8:30am-9:00am--Work and Consultation time (DE 311)
9:00am-9:30am--DMAC business (DE 311)
9:30am-10:30am--Discussing Daily  Readings (DE 311) {Scott}
10:30am-10:45am--Break
10:45am-12:15pm--"Making the case to administrators roundtable" (DE 311) {Louie, Tony, Dickie, Debra}
12:15pm-1:30pm--Lunch
12:30pm-1:30pm--Optional Brown Bag Lunch: First-Year Writing with Scott DeWitt
1:30pm-2:30pm--Interview with students (DE 311)
2:45pm-3:45pm--Interview with teachers (DE 311) {Alexis, Elizabeth}
3:45pm-5:00pm--Studio Time (DE 343)
4:00pm-5:00pm--Breakout:  Wikis (PC room) {Dickie}
5:00pm-6:00pm--Optional: Youth Video Outread: Screening 20 Straws with Liv Gjestvang

Homework: Blog reflection (reflection on your DMAC experience, responses to one or more of the readings)
           
Evening: Open; DE 343 available 6pm-10pm


WEDNESDAY, 4 June

Daily Readings: Thinking about multimodal composition rhetorically

The New London Group, (1996). “A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies: Designing Social Futures.” Harvard Education Review 66.1: p. 60-92.
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.
Paul Prior, Janine Solberg, Patrick Berry, Hannah Bellwoar, Bill Chewning, Karen Lunsford, Liz Rohan, Kevin Roozen, Mary Sheridan-Rabideau, Jody Shipka, Derek Van Ittersum, and Joyce Walker. (2007). Re-situating and Re-mediating the Canons: A Cultural-historical Remapping of Rhetorical Activity: A Collaborative Webtext. Kairos 11.3 (May 2007). http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/11.3/

Schedule

8:30am-9:00am—DMAC Business (DE 311)
9:00am-10:00am—Discussion of Daily  Readings (DE 311)
10:15am-11:15am—Designing your project (DE 343) {Cheryl}
11:15am-5:00pm—Lunch and Studio Session (DE 311, DE 312, DE 324, De 343)
Lunch by McGraw-Hill (Tentative)
11:45am-12:45pm--Optional Brown Bag Lunch: Video Assignment--Director's Commentaries and Bloopers Reels with Louie Ulman
1:30pm-3:00pm—Breakout Session:  Flash (DE 307) {Scott}
1:30pm-3:00pm--Breakout Session: Introduction to Dreamweaver with Cheryl

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

Evening: Open; DE 343 available 6pm-10pm


THURSDAY, 5 June 

Daily Readings:  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.
Valerie Lee video: "The Changing Nature of Literacy"

Schedule

8:30-8:45am—DMAC Business (DE 311)
8:45am-9:45am—Discussion of Daily  Readings (DE 311)
9:45am-10:00am—Break
10:00am-11:00am—Literacy Narratives (DE 311) {Katie, Brenda}
11:00am-11:30am—Valerie Lee (DE 311)  {Valerie}
11:30am-5:00pm—Lunch and Studio Session (DE 311, DE 312, DE 324, DE 307)
12:00pm-1:30pm--Optional Brown Bag Lunch: Digital Video with Paul Hammond, Richard Miller and Erin Smith
3:30pm-5:00pm--Optional Captioning Video session with Ken Petri

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


FRIDAY 6 June

Daily Readings:  Rhetorics and Politics of Technology

Sinclair, Bruce.  "Integrating the Histories of Race and Technology." Technology and the African American Experience.  Cambridge:  MIT, 2004 (pp 1-19).
Kinloch, Valerie.  "Youth Representations of Community, Art, and Struggle in Harlem.” New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education 116 (Winter 2007):  37-49.
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 Mifflin p. 92-102.
Moss, Beverly.  “Writing in the Wider Community.”

Schedule

8:30am-9:00am—DMAC Business (DE 311)
9:00am-10:00am—Discussing Daily Readings with Beverly Moss (DE 311)
10:00am-10:15am—Break
10:15am-11:15am—Valerie Kinloch (DE 311) {Valerie}
11:15am-12:15pm— Lived Processes: Writing and Publishing Ourselves in a Global World (DE 311) {Gail}
12:15pm-5:00pm—Lunch and Studio Session (DE 307, DE 311, DE 312, DE 324, DE 343)            

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

Evening—Open.

SATURDAY and SUNDAY 7-8 June

Weekend Area Events:

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

Lab Hours: TBA


MONDAY, 9 June

Schedule

8:30am-9:00am—DMAC Business (DE 311)
9:30am-10:30am—Writers House (DE  311) {Paul and Richard}
10:00am-12:00pm—Studio session (DE 307, DE 311, DE 312, DE 324, DE 343)
12:00pm-1:30pm--Lunch
1:30pm-5:00pm--Studio session (DE 307, DE 311, DE 312, DE 324, DE 343

Evening: Open; lab 6-10pm (DE 343)


TUESDAY, 10 June

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