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1 Building on a Rhetorical Foundation through D-I-Y (Do-It-Yourself) Digital Video in the Comp Classroom Crystal VanKooten University of Michigan vankootc@umich.edu CC: BY Curtis Palmer

2 The over-arching goal of the video unit: meta- awareness about composition, rhetorical choices, and multiple modes of expression. CC: BY SA Danijel Zivkovic drawn from Wardle (2007): Meta-awareness about writing, language, and rhetorical strategies “may be the most important ability our courses can cultivate.”

3 CC: BY SA NC Erunion CC: BY SA Danijel Zivkovic The over-arching goal of the video unit: meta-awareness about composition, rhetorical choices, and multiple modes of expression.

4 CC: BY SA NC Erunion CC: BY SA Danijel Zivkovic CC: BY Lowjumpingfrog CC: BY Ronaldo Ferreira

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6 Dewey: the “organic connection between education and personal experience” CC: BY SA NC Mark Brannan

7 CC: BY NC Pierre Metivier New London Group: metalanguage as a language of reflective generalization that describes the form, content, and function of the discourses of practice — “a language for talking about images, texts and meaning-making interactions.”

8 Kathleen Blake Yancey: Reflection is “a dialectical process by which we develop and achieve, first, specific goals for learning; second, strategies for reaching those goals; and third, means of determining whether or not we have met those goals or other goals.” CC: BY Luis Argerich

9 CC: BY NC ND Angie Torres

10 CC: BY SA NC Blue Square Thing Examples: Learn to use iMovie to layer still images and audio. Learn to use Windows MovieMaker to create a video that uses still and moving images that are labeled for reuse and modification under Creative Commons. Learn to use iMovie to insert transitions between clips. Setting goals to support the development of functional literacies

11 Setting goals to support the development of rhetorical literacies Convey the message of to (the audience) through the use of multiple modes of expression and combined appeals to logos, pathos, and ethos. Use lyrics, melody, and tempo in particular songs as musical rhetoric to draw upon the cultural associations of an audience member. Use juxtaposition of images and song lyrics to advance the purpose of the video. CC: BY SA Tim GeersCC: BY SA Bright Meadow

12 CC: BY SA Charlie Bird CC: BY NC ND Angie Torres Revising and Shifting Goals

13 Anne Frances Wysocki’s definition of new media: “a definition that encourages us to stay alert to how and why we make these combinations of materials, not simply that we do it.” CC: BY NC Silvio Tanaka CC: BY NC Gene Han CC: BY NC Rusty Sheriff

14 Thank you! Questions for further discussion: 1.What other instructional approaches can support students in the development of a meta-awareness about composition? 2.How can we construct prompts that guide students in making connections between modes, genres, and media? Crystal VanKooten University of Michigan vankootc@umich.edu


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