Multiliteracies in ELA Classrooms

Course Overview

Weeks 1-2

September 5: Introductions

September 12: Multiliteracies and Multimodalities

Required: New London Group. (1996). A pedagogy of multiliteracies: Designing social futures. Harvard Educational Review, 66(1), 60-92. (UBC electronic holdings.)

Required (review as much as you are able to review with a focus on considering how “multiliteracies” are integrated): BC Ministry of Education Curriculum. (2007). English Language Arts 8 to 12. (Select, view all curriculum, type “English” in the search box, select English Language Arts 8 to 12.) Available: http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/irp/welcome.php

Recommended (through the course of this term you should become familiar with this document — likely it will be assigned reading in other courses): BC Ministry of Education. (2012). Standards for the Education, Competence and Professional Conduct of Educators in BC. Available: http://www.bcteacherregulation.ca/Standards/StandardsOverview.aspx

Elif Shafak: The politics of fiction: http://www.ted.com/talks/elif_shafak_the_politics_of_fiction.html

Weeks 3 – 6

September 19: Visual Literacy (Presenter: Maya)

Required: Messaris, P. (1998). Visual Aspects of Media Literacy. Journal of Communication, 48(1), 70-80. (UBC electronic holdings.)

Additional Resources for this Class:
Internet Safety: https://blogs.ubc.ca/lled368/resources/internet-safety/

Text Visualization: https://blogs.ubc.ca/visualization/

September 26: Literature and Image: Illustrated editions, graphic novels, anime, and manga (Presenters: Kiran, Faran)

Required: Select a resource from the book bin that will be provided or bring an example from your own library. Be prepared to introduce your resource and your thoughts about the visual rhetoric employed therein within small-group discussion.

October 3: Persuasive Visual Media (Presenter: Dana)

Guest Speaker: Ernesto Pena, Principles of Visual Rhetoric

Required: Farmer, Lesley S.J. (2007). I See, I Do: Persuasive Messages and Visual Literacy. Internet @ schools, 14(4), p. 30-33. [UBC Electronic Holdings. Search for this article directly using a title search, “i see i do” in Academic Search Complete.]

Recommended: Ehses, H. and Lupton, E. (1988). Rhetorical Handbook: An illustrated manual for graphic designers. Available: http://faculty.unlv.edu/staggers/RhetoricalHandbook.pdf

Activity: Find one or more strong advertisements (print or digital media — YouTube is an alternate source for television advertisements). Be prepared to introduce your advertisement and your thoughts about the visual rhetoric employed therein within small-group discussion.

October 10: Film and Television (Presenter: Katie, Mike)

Required: Bortolotti, G. and Hutcheon, L. (2007). On the Origin of Adaptations: Rethinking Fidelity Discourse and “Success” — Biologically. New Literary History, 38(3), pp. 443-458.

Other resources: The Stages of Filmmaking: http://dreamfilmmakers.blogspot.ca/2008/07/stages-of-filmmaking.html

Types of shot: http://www.mediacollege.com/video/shots/

Types of transition: http://www.elementsofcinema.com/editing/types-of-transition.html

The Faces of Othello: https://blogs.ubc.ca/lled368/faces-of-othello/

Activity: Find a literary adaptation (text to film, text to image, image to text, film to text, text to music, etc). Post your example to the blog or bring your example to class and be prepared to discuss transmediation evident within the example.

Weeks 7 – 12

October 17: Social Media and Folksonomies of Knowing

Required: Alexander, B. (2006) Web 2.0: A new wave of innovation for teaching and learning? EDUCAUSE Review, 41(2), 34-44. Available: http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm06/erm0621.asp?bhcp=1

Recommended: Lankshear, C. and Knobel, M. (2006). Blogging as Participation: The Active Sociality of a New Literacy. American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, US. April 11, 2006. Available: http://reocities.com/c.lankshear/bloggingparticipation.pdf

Activity: Selected examples of social media sites (e.g., YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, Delicious, wikis and blogs, fan sites, etc). Examples of the intersection of social media and other forms of media (e.g., Harry Potter fan sites, reality TV fan sites, etc). Post your example to the blog or bring your example to class.

October 24: New Directions for Literary Education: E-literature

Required: Hayles, N. Katherine. (2007). Electronic literature: What is it? The Electronic Literature Organization. Available: http://eliterature.org/pad/elp.html

Browse through examples of e-literature here: Hayles, N.K., Montfort, N., Rettberg, S. & Strickland, S. (2006). Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One and Two. College Park, Maryland: Electronic Literature Organization. Available (see links on right menu): http://eliterature.org/

Guest Speaker: Claire Ahn on teaching film (Claire Ahn is a long-time high school teacher who has taught film. She was unable to come on October 10.)

**October 29 & November 9: School-based practicum. Class will not meet.**

November 14: Computer-Mediated Communication: IM, txting, Chat, Twitter, etc, and the future of language

Required: Baron, N.S. (2005). Instant messaging and the future of language. Communications of the ACM, 46(7), 30-31.

Required: Carrington, V. (2005). Txting: the end of civilization (again)? Cambridge Journal of Education, 35(2), 161-175.

November 21: New Media and the Law, Lab day for final projects

British Columbia Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Retrieved, 29 June 2010, from: http://www.bclaws.ca/EPLibraries/bclaws_new/document/ID/freeside/96165_00

Canadian Copyright Act. Retrieved, 29 June 2010, from: http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/C-42/index.html

November 28: Gaming

Required: Gee, J.P. (2007). What video games have to teach us about learning and literacy. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan. Chapter 1. [The full text of this book is in the UBC electronic holdings. If you have difficulty obtaining it consult a reference librarian.]

Gee, J. (2005). Good Video Games and Good Learning. Phi Kappa Phi Forum, 85(2), 33-
37. [UBC Electronic Holdings.]

Optional: de Castell, S., Jenson, J., & Taylor, N. (2007). Digital games for education: When meanings play. Situated Play, DiGRA Conference, Tokyo, Japan. 590-599. Available: http://www.digra.org/dl/db/07312.45210.pdf

December 5: Concluding Activities, Lab day for final projects