Week Five Agenda ED386 | ED586

Readings: 

Dalton, B. (2013). Multimodal Composition and the Common Core State Standards. Reading Teacher, 66(4), 333-339.

Ohler, J. (2013) Chapter 14: Media Grammar for Teachers.  Digital Storytelling in the Classroom. Thousand Oaks, CA : Corwin. pp. 226-244.

Introduction: BlogPost4

Noteworthy:

• Exploration Introduction: Digital Storytelling
• Assignment Due Friday 17 February: Mobile Learning (including blog 3)
• The answer is: media  
• Readings for next week:
  • Arola, K., Sheppard, J., Ball, C. (2014) Chapter 2: Analyzing Multimodal Projects. In: Writer/Designer : A Guide to Making Multimodal Projects. New York : Bedford/St. Martin’s. pp. 20-39.
  • Associated with the Arola, Sheppard, & Ball reading, please work through the online tutorial, ix visualizing composition.
  • Selected Readings on digital storytelling in the content areas

Mini lecture / Discussion: From Mobile Learning to Digital Storytelling

• Technology Thought to Be Educational…
• Visual and Multimodal Literacy Standards
  • Common Core in Action: 10 Visual Literacy Strategies
  • Common Core Visual Literacy ELA K-12 Standards
• Imagining the Digital Storytelling Workshop across disciplines and grades

Workshop: Mobile Learning

Discussion 2: An Approach to Multimodal Literacy | Media Grammar for Teachers

• Media Grammar Overview and Ohler’s perspective

Working in a small group, first review your assigned section of Media Grammar for Teachers and then watch the brief associated video. Working with the ideas in the section, produce a series of still images or a brief video that is a fair representation of the main concepts and prepare 3-4 minute presentation to explain them to your classmates.  media

1. A Well Lit Picture
2. Beware Visual Noise
3. Framing the Subject
4. Shooting Angles