Multiliteracies in ELA Classrooms

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• TMD // Jul 23rd 2013 at 9:38 am

  Dear Adam, Irene, Katarina, Natalia and Natasha,

  Thanks for sharing your creative response to Jackson’s “The Lottery.” This type of response seems promising, particularly given the comment feature of the application, which allows citation and discussion of media selections.

  As I mentioned to Natalia, I think the movie clip is particularly powerful. I can imagine a modification of your approach that would entail selecting a series of striking and evocative clips from a single literary film and posting those as a sort of filmic collage through which viewers choose their own path. The challenge, of course, is always copyright, and so an alternative would be to upload the 15-second clips of one’s own artistic renderings — perhaps even reproductions of powerful scenes in a literary film. Alternately, one could post images along with one’s own creative writing (prose or poetry) to effect a hypertextual literary reading environment allowing multiple reading paths. There are so many possibilities with an application like this — I’m certainly glad you presented the affordances through your creative explorations.

  You make some good observations in your write up about the merits and challenges of the exercise. The weather metaphor in your rubric is humorous, although it doesn’t provide much detail and you may find yourself challenged by students wondering about clouds — you’d certainly need to supplement this rubric with a lot of substantial commentary.

  Overall this is an interesting approach with a lot of potential for modifications — thanks for your thoughtful contribution!

  Best regards,

  Teresa

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