uib digital literacies colloqium talk
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This is a talk I'm giving for the College of Ed's Digital Literacies Research group at University of Bergen (Norway) on Dec. 14, 2010.TRANSCRIPT
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Assessing Scholarly Assessing Scholarly Multimedia by Multimedia by
Undergraduates or Undergraduates or FacultyFaculty
Dr. Cheryl E. Ball
Editor, Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy
Associate Professor of New Media Studies, Dept. of English
Illinois State University, USA
[email protected] | ceball.com
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NLG’s Five Modes of NLG’s Five Modes of CommunicationCommunicationlinguistic (delivery, vocabulary, logos,
etc.)aural (music, sound effects, …)visual (colors, perspective, layout,…)gestural (body, kinesics, feeling/affect,
…)spatial (eco/geosystems, architecture, …)
any combination = multimodal
(Cope & Kalantzis, 2000, p. 26)
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U.S. Multimodal Writing U.S. Multimodal Writing ProgramsPrograms
Kent State UniversityMichigan State UniversityOhio State UniversityMichigan Technological UniversityMiami University of OhioStanford UniversityUniversity of Illinois
(See Atkins, Anderson, Ball, Homicz Millar, et al., 2006)
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Connecting Theory to Connecting Theory to PublishingPublishing
http://kairos.technorhetoric.net
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What a “Webtext” DoesWhat a “Webtext” Does
http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/13.2/topoi/delagrange/index.html
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A Course in Scholarly A Course in Scholarly MultimediaMultimedia
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Sequence of AssignmentsSequence of Assignmentsvenue/publication analysisaudience analysisgenre analysiscriteria mapping of “values” in the
genre setmedia & modes analysisproject pitch proposalcollaborative scholarly multimodal
projectpeer-review analysis & reflectionsubmission emails to editorscourse reflection
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Scholarly Multimedia Scholarly Multimedia CriteriaCriteriaInstitute for Multimedia Literacy
Honors Program at University of Southern California (Kuhn, 2008)
Manifesto Special Issue of Kairos (DeWitt & Ball, 2008)
“Assessing Scholarly Webtexts” tool (Warner, 2007)
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Student-Chosen Criteria Student-Chosen Criteria (08-09)(08-09)creativityconceptual coreresearch/credibilityform : contentaudiencetimeliness
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Student-Chosen Criteria Student-Chosen Criteria (Now)(Now)Choose and justify their own criteria.
Still use that criteria to write “peer-review” letters just like an editorial board does.
But also: Annotate those letters to explain why and how they’ve used the criteria for that particular webtext.
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Reasons for Better Reasons for Better Performance?Performance?Students Scholars
Instructions No Formal Instructions
3-day Assignment Deadline
3-4 week volunteer deadline
Students’ first experience helping with a publication
Rote, albeit invested, role in helping with publications
Required; graded Volunteer; no repercussions
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Student’s Scholarly Student’s Scholarly MultimediaMultimedia
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Student’s Scholarly Student’s Scholarly MultimediaMultimedia
Before (class final)
After (accepted for publication)
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Students’ ReflectionsStudents’ Reflections
http://alwasowicz.wordpress.com/project-reflection/
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Scholarly Multimedia + Scholarly Multimedia + Undergraduates = LearningUndergraduates = Learning
Changed instructions to editorial board
Incorporated best reviewing practices into new content-management system
Spread the word about undergraduate research practices AND international multimodal research publications.