Hello, Everyone:
In advance of Tuesday's class, I'd like you to register a Wikipedia username and ID. Although we won't start composing directly in the Wiki sandbox until next month, we will be completing some smaller steps online. To register, follow the "create account" link from Wikipedia English's main page.
By class time on Tuesday, I will have combined your group outlines into a single suggested outline, with designated sections. We'll look at some Wikipedia project pages, but spend most of the class determining if that outline is do-able, and working together in your groups on the structure of each section. So, please just bring (or have access to) the sources your group has collected so far, and feel free to do some pre-reading and summarizing of texts in your Google Drive space. Nothing will be wasted, given that you'll have the opportunity to contribute to other sections as needed.
Based on the outlines your groups have generated so far, I can recommend the following sources from our "Further Reading" list (if you haven't already considered them):
- Bezemer and Kress
- Fraiburg
- Bolter and Grusin
- IP Caucus
- Murray
- Ball
- Multimodal Issues Management Team
- Wysocki
Finally, three of your group outlines suggested listing or linking to multimodal projects, as a way of either demonstrating some of the main characteristics of "multimodal" as you understand it, or as a way of presenting a classification system for different categories of multimodal texts. These are all great ideas, and I thought I would contribute to your brainstorming by sharing some of the texts I understand as "multimodal" according to the definition you have been forwarding:
- Sharon Daniel's "Public Secrets" Essay [click on "view project"]
- The PinePoint Documentary Project
- "In My Language"
Good thinking and problem-solving so far, everyone!
-Prof. Graban
