Multimodal composition and pedagogy

Professor Jamie Skye Bianco

Fall 2009, University of Pittsburgh

Tuesdays, 6-8:50PM, 423 CL

ENGLIT 2504 - 1010

Office Hours, Tuesdays, 4-5, and by appointment

Office Location: 1502a CL (enter through 1501)

Course Schedule
Course Description & Required Materials
Student Websites
Students Home
Spikenlilli Home
Third Year Review

Schedule (subject to Change)

September 1:

Introduction
           Multimodality, Addobe CS4, Workshop Model, Learning through Failure 
           
           Technical Learning, Creative Critical Work, Affective & Emergent Pedagogies 
The Project
Source Assignments
MM Assignments 
Static Web Design I: Dreamweaver, HTML 

September 8:

Static Web Design II: Dreamweaver, XHTML

Workshop:
Acquire domain, set up FTP, upload Index. Pitt web space.

Source Assignment:
-Theodor Adorno, "The Essay as Form" from The Adorno Reader

-New London Group. (1996). "A Pedagogy of New Literacies: Designing Social Futures." Harvard Educational Review, 66 (1), 60-92. (Available through PittCat) or

September 15:

Static Web Design III: Dreamweaver, CSS [SAMPLES FROM CLASS]

Source Assignment:
-Computers and Composition

-Gunther Kress & Theo Van Leeuwen, "Introduction: Multimodality" from Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and Media of Contemporary Communication

September 22:

Static Web Design IV: Dreamweaver IV, CSS

Begin working with Images I: Photoshop/Bridge, the Basics

Workshop:
Present Rough Websites

Source Assignment:
-Computers and Composition

-Gail E. Hawisher & Cynthia L. Selfe, "Literate Lives in the Information Age" from Literate Lives in the Information Age

September 29:

Working with Images II: Photoshop/Bridge, Masks & Layers

Sound I: Production: Soundbooth/Audacity, Capture & Editing

Source Assignment:
-Computers and Composition Online

-Anne Frances Wysocki, "Opening New Media to Writing: Openings and Justifications" from Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition

October 6:

Sound II: Production: Soundbooth/Audacity, Capture & Editing

Schedule meeting with JSB (Oct. 1-Oct. 19)

Bring in ideas/Recordings for Podcast/Sound Essay

Source Assignment:
-Computers and Composition Online

-Gunther Kress & Theo Van Leeuwen, "The Meaning of Composition" from Reading Images

October 13:

No Class: Pitt on Monday Schedule

 

Work on Websites & Sound Projects

October 20:

Video I Production I: Premiere, Capture & Editing Video & Sound
Premiere/Photoshop/Soundbooth/Audacity

Editing, Compositing, Key Frames, Transitions

Sound III: Podcasts, Sound Objects, Sound Essays: SoundBooth

3 Final Project Sketches due

Workshop:
Present Podcasts/Sound Projects

Source Assignment:
-Kairos: an Online Journal of Rhetoric Technology and Pedagogy

-Gunther Kress & Theo Van Leeuwen, "Design" from Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and Media of Contemporary Communication

October 27:

Video II Production III: Premiere/Photoshop/Soundbooth/Audacity

Editing, Compositing, Animation (PS), Titles, Exporting

Integration: Putting the media together Final Project Planning

Proposal for Final Project due

Workshop:
Work on Video Roughcuts

Source Assignment:
-Kairos: an Online Journal of Rhetoric Technology and Pedagogy

-Danielle DeVoss et al, "The Future of Literacy" from Literate Lives in the Information Age

November 3:

Class Cancelled

Work on Websites & Videos

November 10:

Present Final Websites & Videos I 
    

Present Video Final Cuts &
Present Final Website Designs (complete though you will continue to add)

Source Assignment:
-Vectors

-Stuart A. Selber, "Rhetorical Literacy: Computers as Hypertextual Media, Students as Reflexive Producers of Technology" from Multiliteracies for a Digital Age

November 17:

Present Final Websites & Videos II

Present Video Final Cuts &
Present Final Website Designs (complete though you will continue to add)

Source Assignment:
-Vectors

-Mary Kalantzis & Bill Cope, "A Multiliteracies Pedagogy" from Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures

November 24:

Present Final Websites & Videos III : class canceled

CLASS CANCELED: too many folk out of town for Thanksgiving holiday to hold workshop & response

Source Assignment:
-Johndan Johnson-Eilola, "The Database and the Essay: Understanding Composition as Articulation" from Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition

December 1:

Present Final Websites & Videos III : make-up session

Teaching Multimodality: MM Essays and/or Digital Storytelling: begin discussion of course readings

Present Video Final Cuts &
Present Final Website Designs (complete)

December 8:

Animation & Transcoding: Flash/Photoshop/Flash Encoder

Teaching Multimodality: MM Essays and/or Digital Storytelling: discuss course readings

Evaluations

Brief studio practice with Flash

Discuss all course readings & reviews: Please read peer reviews in preparation for class

December 15:

The BIG NIGHT!

Final Project Presentations -- PUBLIC!