Multimodal Assignments
A mix of projects and handouts - both web and text based
WikiHow Article
For this assignment we had to create a Wiki How article, with pictures, and then upload it to the website. Creating a Wiki is quite different than "typical" academic writing; you must write clear, concise, and to-the-point, all while maintaining a tone and vocabulary that is appropriate for the broad readership that comes with writing for the web. This type of assignment could work well in a composition class where the students need work on being direct with their language while still including the creative and visual elements.
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Technology Review
In a class that requires multiple digital platforms to complete assignments, it is important to have a base knowledge of the functionality of these technologies. To combat this, each member of our 10 person seminar chose a web-based (free) platform to present to our class. I presented on Google as a form of collaborative software. The handout below gives an overview of my presentation and the Google Docs handout is a copy of what I give to my own class for use in their online peer-review workshops.
Multi-Modal
Creative Project
The multi-modal project had many creative facets attached. Through this project we were able to do a profile on essentially anything we wanted (one of the theories of teaching New Media and Digital Writing is to give the students options in the classroom) and I chose to profile my grandpa. In journalism school I always wanted to do a project on him, but couldn't because it wasn't "news." I put a lot of time into this, and while I still don't consider it "finished," I am proud of the results. I had my immediate and extended family in mind when creating this project, and envision working on it into the future.
This project would work well as a large semester project for an undergraduate composition class to discuss multiliteracies, visual rhetoric, audience, and web-based writing.
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