Monday, June 27, 2016
Make Cycle Three: R-Cubed
Week Three! We’re heading down the home stretch, each of experiencing with digital writing. Most of our "makes" blending image and text. We’ve taken our own words and transformed them by adding images, working that “transmediation” that Hundley writes about in her essay “Set in Stone or Set in Motion?” For many of us, that’s a huge accomplishment! Doing so, we broke out of the boundaries of text and experimented with how images can support, clarify, or complicate the message expressed by our words.
For Make Cycle 3, we encourage you to “up the stakes” of your digital expressions by experimenting with sound, motion, or both. We’ve begun playing with images, including the visual. Now we’re challenging ourselves to leverage technology to include aural and kinesthetic appeal to our writing.
Paul’s spoken poetry set against animation is an excellent example of the kind of texts we’re asking you to produce. Remember, his multmodal text was created by professionals,so let’s give ourselve permission to experiment with mixing words, sounds, and animation. There are several relatively intuitive web-based programs, along with some old favorites like iMovie and SoundCloud that allow us to experiment with adding sound, video and.or animation to our words.
As we’ve been reminded in our readings, we want to encourage our students to think of themselves as writers, people with a voice. This make cycle challenges us to do the same, to take on the role of “multimodal writers,” composers who complement written word with visual, sonic, and kinesthetic elements.
For this Make Cycle, consider revising one of the poems we’ve drafted during demos, perhaps revising a “juicy excerpt” or passage to “multimodalize.”
Another possibility might be to compose a portrait of yourself as a teacher. You’re basically answering the question, “How can I use digital media to both show and tell others about my educator-identity?” The inspiration for this multimodal text come from an article from the digital magazine Introspection entitled “What Makes a Portrait a Portrait?" This essay complements the identity work that many of our demos have explored and may stimulate your creative juices.
Of course, you are welcome to select any of your own topics that derive from your own thinking and writing over the course of the Summer Institute.
Below is a list of web based programs that allow you to add sound and/or animate your multimodal texts. Explore. Experiment. Comment on each others’ work (generous reading!). Don’t forget to refer to online tutorials. And don’t obsess about the product. We know that for many of us, leaning into digital writing can freak us out. Here’s our chance to “feel the burn” of exploring a new genre and to practice paying attention to your own writing/creating process. You got this!
- Soundcloud is an audio platform, free apps for Google and Apple.
- Garageband is another audio platform for Apple devices
- iMovie for Apple devices
- Flipagram is a free app for creating videos with music on Google and Apple
- PicPlayPost is free video collage app available on Google and Apple
- Powtoon is a free web-based animation program that allows you include audio
- Videoliscious is a free app for Google and Apple that lets you add vocals to movies and images.
- CLMOOC Make Bank - This link takes you list of digital tools to use to “multimodalize” texts. You'll find plenty of samples to inspire you.
- Digital Toolbox - this link takes you to a spreadsheet full of digital tools along with ideas for using them. In addition, the table features several social media tools we can use for instruction.
Below are some samples, including Paul's work and a one-minute trailer produced by one of his students. I've included a sample (sloppy copy) of a Powtoon I attempted awhile ago as well as a PicPostPlay clip. Cheers!
Make Cycle Two: R-Cubed
For this second “make,” we encourage you to mine through your own writing to find an idea, quote, or passage that resonates with you - kind of like we do with reading protocols, only this time, you are exploring your own writing. Select an idea from your Morning Journal, Writing Response Group drafts, or Afternoon Reflection to Revise, Remix, and Remake (R-cubed, get it?) into a digital text. You may even want to pull something from your own demo or ideas you gathered from someone else's demo. Explore your original thinking and create a representation of it in whatever way you desire, in any voice or text type (narrative, informative, persuasive) you wish.
Here's a Motivator poster I drafted based on an idea in my demo:
Teaching Lessons - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires
Finally, in the words of CLMOOC facilitators Stephanie West-Pluckett and Karen Fasimpaur, “Give yourself permission to do something new . . . Give yourself permission to do something fun. And finally, give yourself permission to fail and to succeed ─ knowing that we’ll clap for you either way.”
The idea or quote you select might be one that validates your practice and current beliefs, or it could be one that challenges you to think in new ways about your teaching and the ways you support student writers in your classroom…or even think about yourself as a writer.
After you select an idea worth revising and remaking, take time to reflect upon it. Think about your quote or passage as a “specimen on the table.” Look at it closely and dissect it before deciding how you can bring new meaning to it through your make. Then let your idea inspire your creativity, remixing your idea into a digital format. Find an image that represents its meaning, draw a picture that expresses your interpretation of it, or animate it to bring it to life.
There are many web tools that allow users to easily dress up written text with images, interesting fonts, borders, audio, and more. A few are suggested below:
After you select an idea worth revising and remaking, take time to reflect upon it. Think about your quote or passage as a “specimen on the table.” Look at it closely and dissect it before deciding how you can bring new meaning to it through your make. Then let your idea inspire your creativity, remixing your idea into a digital format. Find an image that represents its meaning, draw a picture that expresses your interpretation of it, or animate it to bring it to life.
There are many web tools that allow users to easily dress up written text with images, interesting fonts, borders, audio, and more. A few are suggested below:
Motivator – “Make your own motivational poster"
Quozio – “Turns meaningful words into beautiful images in seconds”
PicMonkey – “Take your pictures further”
Recite - Another free program to create posters
Fotobabble – Upload a photo and record your voice
You might also decide to experiment with one of the tools listed in the Introduction Make Cycle, or you might have one you would like to suggest. Please feel free to add resources to the Creativity Tools section in the MOOC Community.
As you create and post your idea, we encourage you to further connect by commenting on the quotes shared by others. Developing an interactive community is an important part of the SI experience as we learn with and from each other.
As you create and post your idea, we encourage you to further connect by commenting on the quotes shared by others. Developing an interactive community is an important part of the SI experience as we learn with and from each other.
Here's a Motivator poster I drafted based on an idea in my demo:
Click here for a Haiku Deck where Kim reflects on the concept "teacher-as-artist."
Here's a "remix" I drafted last year to capture what I'm learning about being a teacher of writing.
Here's a "remix" I drafted last year to capture what I'm learning about being a teacher of writing.
Teaching Lessons - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires
Finally, in the words of CLMOOC facilitators Stephanie West-Pluckett and Karen Fasimpaur, “Give yourself permission to do something new . . . Give yourself permission to do something fun. And finally, give yourself permission to fail and to succeed ─ knowing that we’ll clap for you either way.”
Make Cycle One: Introductions
Welcome to the SDAWP Summer Institute 2016 Google+ Community! We’re happy you are here. We look forward to connecting with you as we explore writing and the teaching of writing, looking for ways to hone our craft—the teaching and the writing.
For our first “Make Cycle,” we hope you will find a creative way to introduce yourself to our community by making and sharing something that represents you and your beliefs about teaching and/or writing. All media are acceptable: drawing, blogging, sculpture, photography, collage, podcast, video, etc.
Please consider what the tool you use to introduce yourself will tell us about you and your interests, and if you choose to make something offline, please don’t forget to post an image of it to SDAWP Summer Institute 2016
If you would like to view a few mentor makes, please visit the CLMOOC Make Bank,which showcases introductions made using a variety of tools that allowed the creators to introduce themselves in unique ways.
Some possibilities:
Now we challenge you to make something and share your experiences on our SDAWP Summer Institute 2016 Google+ Community. Developing a community is an important part of the experience, and we encourage you to further connect by commenting on the introductions created by others. We hope to motivate and inspire each other as we explore, discuss, and “make” with us!
For our first “Make Cycle,” we hope you will find a creative way to introduce yourself to our community by making and sharing something that represents you and your beliefs about teaching and/or writing. All media are acceptable: drawing, blogging, sculpture, photography, collage, podcast, video, etc.
Please consider what the tool you use to introduce yourself will tell us about you and your interests, and if you choose to make something offline, please don’t forget to post an image of it to SDAWP Summer Institute 2016
If you would like to view a few mentor makes, please visit the CLMOOC Make Bank,which showcases introductions made using a variety of tools that allowed the creators to introduce themselves in unique ways.
Some possibilities:
- Make a self-portrait: draw, paint, or photograph yourself (Picassohead, AKVIS Sketch)
- Record a podcast (GarageBand, Audacity)
- Make a video (Videolicious, Magisto, Animoto)
- Create a collage (PicCollage, BeFunky, ClipStitch)
- Make a slideshow (Haiku Deck, SlideStory, slide.ly)
Now we challenge you to make something and share your experiences on our SDAWP Summer Institute 2016 Google+ Community. Developing a community is an important part of the experience, and we encourage you to further connect by commenting on the introductions created by others. We hope to motivate and inspire each other as we explore, discuss, and “make” with us!
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