Multiliteracies in ELA Classrooms

Course Overview

Days 1 and 2

July 2: Introductions

July 3: 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.)

Recommended (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: 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

Days 3 – 7

July 4: Visual Literacy

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/

July 5: Literature and Image: Illustrated editions, graphic novels, anime, and manga

Required:Frey, N. and Fisher, D. (2004). Using Graphic Novels, Anime, and the Internet in an Urban High School. The English Journal, 93(3), pp. 19-25. Stable URL:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/4128804

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.

Additional resources for this class:
The Rabbits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTvXe84UqIQ;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZaROIWniN8
Shaun Tan on The Rabbits: http://www.shauntan.net/books/the-rabbits.html

Tan, Shaun. (2002). Originality and Creativity. Available: http://www.shauntan.net/essay2.html

The Blake Archive: http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/

July 8: Persuasive Visual Media

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

Recommended:Messaris, P. (1997). Visual persuasion: The role of images in advertising. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. UBC Print Holdings.

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.

July 9: Film and Television (Presenters: TBA)

Guest Speaker: Claire Ahn, Ideas for Teaching Film

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.

July 10: Media Project I Presentations

Days 8 – 13

July 11: Social Media and Folksonomies of Knowing

Required: 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.

July 12: 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/

July 15: 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.

July 16: New Media and the Law; Lab day for Media Project 2

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

July 17: Gaming

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

Recommended: 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.]

Recommended: 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

July 18: Media Project II Presentations

July 19: Concluding Activities