1. Digital Pedagogy Praxis
Creating Narratives Using
Multi-literacies
Digital Pedagogy Praxis

2. Multi-Literacy Theory
Terminology
New Literacy(ies)
Multimodal processes and products
Digital pedagogies/Critical pedagogies
Multi-literacy(ies)
New Media Writing
New London Group (socio-cultural)
Tools, Tools, Tools and Their Use
All of these take us from a print-text paradigm to the diverse genres in which literacy is practiced in the 21st Century

3. Socio-Cultural Lens
“Reading and writing only make sense when studied in the context of social and cultural practices of which we are but a a part”
(Gee, 2000)
Because literacies make meaning from social and cultural constructs, they evolve like them as well.

4. Multi-literacy/modal Praxis
English 1101
20 Student-Scholars
“Essay” Opportunity

5. Process of “Day in the Life”
Handout 
Key Points
Choose a digital or physical identity (socio-cultural)
Tweet, Tweet, Tweet (Rhetorically!)
Rhetorically Organize in Storify
Create an animated representation of the topic

6. “Day in the Life” Comps.
“I tweeted as a Minecraft Player as if they were in the world as a new spawn (no supplies and a new world in which they build). I ordered them chronologically since Minecraft is very much a game where you take one step at a time, and getting ahead of yourself only leads to death.”
Storify Page
GoAnimate Video
“I really like this project. It was kind of fun trying to use limited resources to portray what a day in the life of a Minecraft player would be like. I liked that we had the freedom to pick any identity we wanted and the only gripe I have is that GoAnimate is very limited on things like sound effects.” Quntin B.

7. “Day in the Life” Comps
A Day in the Life of a Space Marine A Day in the Life of Jim Raynor
It was quite different taking on the persona of a completely different character.  I had to think and react the same way that the character was, and I quite enjoyed it! I thought that the storytelling was interesting, as you could have made it several different ways on Storify.  I chose to do my Tweets in chronological order, as it made the most sense for my character, Jim Raynor.  However, in the GoAnimate movie, I chose to have the same story portrayed, but from the side that Jim Raynor was fighting against, trying to make it seem as though neither side is truly in the right.
FanKev is a Bluebird
The one thing that troubled me the most in making this video was the length in time given (there was only 30 seconds); I keep having to cut off some things to make the video not surpass the limit. Because of all the cutting, the video kind of looks fast past in time. Due to that, the day to night sequence isn’t as detailed as I’d like it to be. Another thing that was kind of a pain was the limited characters/scenes from me to choose from. ON the other hand, GoAnimate gives me a nice feeling on animating objects.

8. Evaluating Multimodal Meaning-Making
New London Group:
Linguistic
Visual
Audio
Gestural
Spatial
Multimodal patterns of meaning that combine the above elements

9. Evaluating Multimodal Meaning-Making
NCTE
Definition of 21st-Century Literacies
CCCC
Principles for Teaching and Learning in Digital Environments
NWP
Authentic Intellectual Work
Andrea Lunsford
Starting Point for A Multimodal Rubric
Cheryl Ball
Kuhn +2 Rubric
For links to these, please visit RhetoricMatters.org

10. Change is Cool.
Digital/Critical pedagogy provides opportunities for us to meet students in engaging (digital) spaces on their own terms. Levels out power dynamics. “Flips” the process.
Multimodal text development engenders creativity and rhetorical growth.
An engaged student-scholar is a successful student-scholar.

11. Up for a Challenge?
Cheryl Ball: Learning to communicate effectively in multiple spaces requires sustained practice in multiple composition texts.
Kuhn Interviews Students about Multi-Modalities