Multiliteracies in ELA Classrooms

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• TMD // Jul 16th 2014 at 10:29 am

  Hi Jenny,

  I really enjoyed reading your creative work inspired by Green Grass Running Water. I’m still waiting for the rationale, however — can you post it today so I can provide some feedback?

  Thanks

• TMD // Jul 17th 2014 at 10:37 am

  Hi Jenny,

  Thanks for adding the rationale.

  I really enjoyed your hypertextual version of GGRW. I admit that, as a rule, I prefer to follow links to creative writing rather than to external, informative sources, and that I sometimes discount the latter in my reading of linked literary text. That is, I become less interested if I think that clicking will simply take me away from the text I’m reading. (Sometimes I simply want to make my own associations, not to follow the associations of others, and I sense I may not be alone in that feeling.) What I liked most about your project, then, was the fact that links lead to multiple genres: some to other fragments of GGRW, some to found poetry beyond the text, some to informative sites, etc. This variety piqued my interest, as a reader, and I followed all of the links with interest. There is some great variety and poignancy there.

  Ultimately I think this sort of project is most interesting as a way of having students make their associations visible. Once they’ve created their associative networks, they might contemplate the nature of and reasons for those associations. It can be a rich activity in exploring the associative nature of reading — how our understanding is always informed by what we bring to the text.

  A small point — you use “hypertexting” as a verb in your write up. Perhaps “linking” would be more appropriate. (Hypertext is a term used to describe a digital text with links and isn’t generally used as a verb.)

  Thanks again for your creative contribution!

  Best regards,

  Teresa

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