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From one of Julia's freewrites:
I guess overall my writing life has been mostly talk with very little action. Why? I have no idea [. . .] I guess my inner writer is self conscious. I wish that it had a better vocabulary, better grammar, better spelling, more creativity and anything less than brilliant is just embarrassing. But I'm getting off topic.
What will my Digital Story tell about me? That I never finish what I start? I don't see my inner writer that way. I think my inner writer is just too dependent but has great potential. [ . . .] I remember when I was four my mom signed me up for ballet and whenever I would complain about how hard it was she would take me out of the class and then when I wanted to go back, she would sign me up again, this happened about three times: quitting, restarting, quitting, restarting, etc. (I never did go to my recital.) Since then, I think I've been afraid to fail and when things become difficult I find it easier to retreat than persevere. This mentality translates into my writing. My inner writer needs a clean slate, to take (greater) risks, to explore. I hope to achieve some of these goals through this class and this assignment.
Other examples:
Multimodality
Schools and universities are “staunchly logocentric, book centered, and essay driven, invested as are most educators in the versions of meaning making whose value they know best and committed as are many educators to sharing the languages and modes of power” (Hull & Nelson, 2005).
What kinds of learning or participation could a new design or mode enable?
What kinds of learning or participation might it undermine?
“What, in this environment, with this kind of audience, with these resources that are available for implementing my design, given these social, economic, ‘political’ constraints, and with my interests now at this moment, is the best way of shaping that which I wish to make, whether as ‘message’ or as any object (of design)?” (Kress, 2004)
Texts give us insight into the makeup of the social world.
Learning Goals:
Potential Assessment Criteria:
How could faculty across the disciplines use digital texts as a tool to increase engagement, foster community, start a public conversation?
What questions do you have for us about "teaching" digital texts?
Thank you
What do I learn about the social world from this text?
What are the affordances of these modes?
What identities do digital stories project, and how?
How are all these different modes used? To what effect?
What assumptions are made about the reader/viewer?
What is recognizable? Are there standard conventions?
A Variety of Genres:
Autobiographical narratives
Social critiques
Public service announcements
Reenactments
Animations
Reports
Biographies, oral histories
Variety of Purposes:
Argue for some social change
Interpret a pivotal moment or key event
Represent a place, space, or community
Preserve history
Reflect on course texts
Reach, inform, or influence a wider audience
Report findings of some primary research
Monica Chinn
Process Memo:
What I am trying to accomplish with this piece to show how my reading and writing has changed from when I was in elementary school. I enjoyed reading a lot more when I was younger because I was able to read fun books and not have to worry about catching little details to write an analysis essay. I also liked writing because I had creative freedom. I did not have to follow a “concrete detail, commentary, commentary” format. I am trying to say that my reading and writing has become more serious because of school. But I also do a lot of writing online, like Facebook messages or emails to keep in touch with my family, which is something I never did when I was younger.
I feel like it is important to notice how many pictures I have of myself reading when I was younger. There are so many pictures of me reading by myself or to reading to others when I was little, but there are no pictures of me reading when I’m older. It’s sad that I don’t get to read out loud to people anymore. Another thing you should keep an eye out for is the end sequence. I worked hard on the end picture sequence and I’m proud of myself…I’m such a nerd :-)
One of the challenges I had with this assignment was that I didn’t even know where to begin. I had a lot of ideas in my head, but I just didn’t know how to combine them to make a movie. I also had the challenge of figuring out iMovie. It was a fun challenge though; I liked playing around with the program. I also found it hard to pick the right music. At first I had a song with lyrics, but they started competing with my voice, so I went with an instrumental song.
I would love feedback on if I answered the question correctly in my video. I don’t know if you are looking for more on why I write now, rather than when I was younger. I also would like to know if the audio is okay and it isn’t drastically going soft and then loud, and then soft again. Thanks for watching my video!