Slides to support presentation at BLC2010

1. Using Remix to
Engage Student
Readers and Writers
Building Learning Communities 2010
Sara Kajder, Ph.D. - Virginia Tech

2. Resources:
Wiki -
tiny.cc/kajderblc
Backchannel -
tiny.cc/kajderchat
Google Doc -
tiny.cc/remixrubric Contact Info:
Email - skajder@vt.edu
Twitter - skajder
Skype - skajder

4. New
Literacies
Practices
- Authentic Audience
- Multimodal Composing
- Interest Driven Participation
- “Clickable Footprint”
(putting knowledge to work
through digital artifacts)
- Assessment FOR Learning

5. NCTE 21st
Century
Early
Literacies
Statement
Questions:
1. What is a remix?
2. How does this fit into
what I understand about
copyright practices?
3. How does this fit an
instructional need? What
contribution is made by
bringing this into my
pedagogy?

6. What counts as a remix?

8. See link for Twilight/Buffy Remix in wiki

9. See link for Bush speech Remix on wiki

10. As a writer, I needed to understand...
• What principles of selection are at work?
• What principles of arrangement are at play?
• What are we doing to make the new from the old?
• Do I still consider MAPS (mode, audience, purpose) in
the same ways when composing a remix?

11. What is the process of remix?
• Choosing
• Making
Recursive
• Revising
• Reflecting
• Converging and
Sharing

12. Plagiarism
Originality
Remix

14. Transformative
Use
“When a user of copyrighted
materials adds value to, or
repurposes materials for a
use different from that
which it was originally
intended, it will likely be
considered transformative
use; it will also likely be
considered fair use.”
- Joyce Valenza, School
Library Journal

15. What is the process of remix?
• Choosing
• Making
Recursive
• Revising
• Reflecting
• Converging and
Sharing

17. See link for Hitler/BHS video on wiki

18. What
DIGITAL
Writers do...
- Choose mode and
content for a specific
purpose and audience.
- Structure texts/design
- Use technical features
- Reflect

19. Mode Effect
Can be direct or indirect;
Written Words
connotation/denotation
Visuals Meaning comes from feelings
Subtext comes from stirring
Sound
memories, ideas, values
Color Mood, tone
Frozen moment,
Photography
frames perspective
Interactivity Allows transaction with text
Hypertextuality Connections across texts
Motion Position, direction, change

20. What
DIGITAL
Writers do...
- Choose mode and
content for a specific
purpose and audience.
- Structure texts/design
- Use technical features
- Reflect

21. Design
Cre ativity
Spin
M ultimo dality

22. Collaborate
Design
Int erdiscipliarity
Cre ativity
Spin
Trial & Error
Production
M ultimo dality

23. And assessment?

24. “A pedagogy of multiliteracies requires
that the enormous role of agency in the
meaning making process be recognized
and in that recognition, it seeks to
create a more productive, relevant,
innovative, creative and perhaps even
more emancipatory pedagogy.”
- Cope & Kalantzis (2009) Pedagogies, p. 173

25. Teaching
with New
Literacies
- Technology as
REPLACEMENT
- Technology as
AMPLIFICATION
- Technology as
TRANSFORMATION

26. Resources:
Wiki -
tiny.cc/kajderblc
Backchannel -
tiny.cc/kajderchat
Google Doc -
tiny.cc/remixrubric Contact Info:
Email - skajder@vt.edu
Twitter - skajder
Skype - skajder