This presentation defines remixing, examples, and tools teachers and students can use to remix. It also speaks to copyright, attribution, and Creative Commons.

1. Trajectories of Remixing
Jennifer Casa-Todd & Tiffany Lee

5. Learning Goals
1. What is remixing?
2. What’s the point of remixing? What are the literacy skills involved?
3. Concrete examples and tools that you can use involving remixing
4. Explore and discuss the benefits and drawbacks of remixing in schools
5. Fair use and copyright laws
6. Model best practices using creative commons

6. Google Draw
1. In your Google Drive, Go to File, New, Google
Drawing
2. Insert an image
3. Modify your image properties (recolor, contrast, etc…)
Go to Image Options, Select your Adjustments
https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/14A2X1-pz8In_K-jr-FL_E5_DZtDgDTsHvAWGVu9GQ8k/copy

7. What is remixing?
DJ Earworm Mashup - United State of Pop 2014 (Do What You Wanna Do)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjYWwZYLYEs

8. Remixing and Technology
“Digital tools create new possibilities for getting access to information, for
producing, sharing and reusing. The main point is that more and more people in
our culture can take part in these remixing activities; not only an elite or specific
groups. Most evident, it is young people who take a lead in creative practices
using digital media.” (Knobel & Lankshear, 2008, pg 185)
“Digital Literacies people make meaning and express ideas” (Knobel &
Lankshear, 2008, pg 186)

11. Culture = Remix
“Lessig (2005) argues that culture as a whole can be construed as remix.
Whenever we comment on, say, a film or a book and discuss it with others, we
take the original author's creativity and remix it in our own lives, using it to
extend our own ideas or to produce an evaluation. Lessig explains that "every
single act of reading and choosing and criticizing and praising culture is in this
sense remix, and it is through this general practice that cultures get made" (n.p.).
Remix has not simply emerged with digitization.
It has always been a part of any society's cultural development.”
(Knobel & Lankshear, 2008, pg 22)

12. Macbeth
Think of Shakespeare: “Macbeth draws on and recombines sources as diverse as
Holinshed's Chronicles, Scot's Discovery of Witchcraft, and Greek traditions of tragedy”
(Bate & Rasmussen, 2009) (Burwell, 2013, pg 209).
History

13. History
“We can trace the contemporary remix back to the early experiments
in mechanical recording that resulted in film, photography, and
recorded music (Burwell, 2013, pg 205)

14. History
[R]emixing originally had a precise and a narrow meaning that
gradually became diffused. Although precedents of re-mixing can be
found earlier, it was the introduction of multi-track mixers that made
remixing a standard practice. Since the mid-1970s we have seen
many examples of how artists take existing music pieces or
recordings and make something new of them
Gradually the term became more and more broad, referring to any
reworking of already existing cultural work(s)
(Lankshear & Knobel, 2008, pg 185)

15. Why
Remix?
http://padlet.com/MsCasaTodd/Remix

16. What is the purpose of this video?
What has the author done (how is the text constructed)?
How has this remix allowed you to re-think the original text?
What credit was given to the original works?
How might constructing and analysing re-mixes like this be important?
What literacy skills live in this activity?
From: The Pedagogical Potential of Video Remixing, Burwell, 2013.
Homophobic Friends https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsQ5za-J6I8
(Watch the first 6 mins 30 secs only)
Buffy & Edward https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZwM3GvaTRM

17. Examples of Remixes
"Photoshopping" remixes (Knobel & Lankshear, 2008, p 23)
● adding text to images,
● creating photo montages that mix elements
from two or more images together,
● changing the image context or properties.
http://images.chesscomfiles.com/uploads/images_users/tiny_mce/johnny_BACON/phpTausWA.jpeg

18. Examples of Remixing
www.101qs.com
1) http://www.101qs.com/87-sugar-packets
2) http://www.101qs.com/1968-frys-bank
3) http://www.101qs.com/2469-payday-scam

19. Examples of Remixing (cont)
www.desmos.com
Example 1:
https://www.desmos.com/calculator/hmn49xqtk8
Example 2:
https://teacher.desmos.com/activitybuilder/custom/561be64abcdbdd1b06107ef2

20. Example of Remixing (cont) www.ed.ted.com/
http://ed.ted.com/lessons/when-to-use-me-myself-and-i-emma-bryce

21. Example of Remixing (cont) www.edpuzzle.com

22. Anime Music Videos
AMV culture is a mix of anime, music and video culture.
Anime are the various Japanese cartoon series on television.
Aficionados of AMV culture record a full series of these anime
cartoons and then re-edit them and synchronize them to
music (Shear & Knobel, 2013, pg 285)
Animemusicvideos.org
Newgrounds .com
Example: https://youtu.be/BrOqj4QpLc4
Fan Fiction!

23. Examples of remixing
Poetry Mashup assignment
Example of Audio remixing
https://sites.google.com/a/ycdsbk12.ca/garageband/change-the-banner
Storify
-use Social Media (Twitter, Facebook, Google +, Instagram, etc…) to create your own
story
https://storify.com/JCasaTodd/st-jerome-s-splice-innovation-week
Paper.li
Create a newspaper out of shared articles and posts (Twitter)
http://paper.li/Edtechnerd/1434946702?edition_id=1e8f6db0-7140-11e5-a927-
0cc47a0d164b

24. Happy Birthday!
And Remixing News Headlines
1. Read this article:
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-happy-birthday-song-lawsuit-decision-
20150922-story.html
Skim and Scan the article.
What would a good alternative title to this be?
2. Go to News Jack: http://newsjack.in/
Copy and paste the above URL into the box “Enter a site to Remix”
Hover over title or anything else to change. Hit “Share Remix” Only 1 URL needed

25. Remix tools
Photo Pic Collage , Photoshop, Instagram
Audio Garageband, Audacity
Websites News Jack: http://newsjack.in/, Facebook (editor)
Presentations http://www.slideshare.net/
Video iMovie, We Video, Zaption, Youtube, Ed puzzle, Ted Ed
Social Media Storify, Paper.li
Dynamic Worksheet Desmos/GeoGebra

26. Why
Remix?
http://padlet.com/MsCasaTodd/Remix

27. “This also raises the question of authoring in remixing activities. In school based
activities the question of copy and paste has been raised as a concern since students
have been said to just take elements from other texts and copy them into their own
texts without much reflection. However, research that has been done on these activities
shows that if we look at this in longer trajectories of activities we find both discussions
and reflections on the selection, implementation and expression of different media
elements into new textual expressions by students (Rasmussen, 2005). Multimodal
practices could be said to give young people a voice to express their positions and
interests as agents of remixing. This can be seen in several initiatives about digital
storytelling and self-representation using digital tools, where these activities with young
people often are defined outside of school-based settings in order to avoid the
contextual constraints of schools and build directly on everyday experiences with
technologies (Hull & Greeno, 2006).”
(Lankshear & Knobel, 2008, p 187)

28. Excerpts - Remix Battle
Scenario A Scenario B

29. Is it worth the time?

31. OSAPAC: https://osapac.ca/ccpalo/dc/creation-and-credit/
How do we model ethical and responsible use?

32. Using Search Tools in Google
http://goo.gl/L7a72l

33. How do we model ethical and responsible use?
Images:
Pixabay, Flickr, Google Apps for Education: Research Tool in Google
Music:
http://opsound.org/
http://freemusicarchive.org/curator/creative_commons/
Other:
https://archive.org

35. http://cmec.ca/publications/lists/publications/attachments/291/copyright_matters.pdf

36. What do you
know?

48. http:
//creativecommons.
org/videos/wanna-
work-together
What is it?

49. Creative Commons Licensing
System proposed by Lawrence Lessig, an American scholar specialized in intellectual
property and cyber law (Jones and Hafner, 2013, p46)
What is Creative Commons and what does it do?
Creative Commons is a global nonprofit organization that enables sharing and reuse of
creativity and knowledge through the provision of free legal tools. [Their] legal tools help
those who want to encourage reuse of their works by offering them for use under generous,
standardized terms; those who want to make creative uses of works; and those who want to
benefit from this symbiosis. [Their]vision is to help others realize the full potential of the
internet. CC has affiliates all over the world who help ensure our licenses work internationally
and who raise awareness of our work.
From: https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions#What_is_Creative_Commons_and_what_do_you_do.3F

51. Found in all CC
licences

58. Creative Commons Badges
Resource:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10QP1R-taLNHpY1K2iaPwJ5s3n-
wV1tW3oFTYLNf3F3o/copy
Shared by Donna Fry, created by Gail Desler
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

59. What have you learned?
● Go back to your Google Draw.
● Insert the appropriate licence icon.
● Is there anything else you would have done differently?

60. This Presentation has assembled & remixed by Jennifer
Casa-Todd and Tiffany Lee, thanks to CC &
Rodd Lucier http://www.slideshare.net/thecleversheep/creative-commons-what-every-educator-needs-to-know-presentation
Jessica Coates http://www.slideshare.net/Jessicacoates/creative-commons-in-the-classroom-presentation
Donna Fry https://fryed.wordpress.com/2015/08/18/are-teachers-taught-about-creative-commons/
Doug Belshaw The Essential Elements (Chapter 7)
All images used are Creative Commons licensed or free to use/modify
You are welcome to remix this!

61. References
Burwell, C. (2013). The Pedagogical Potential of Video Remix. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy J Adolesc Adult Liter, 57(3), 205-213.
doi:10.1002/jaal.205
Jones, R. H., & Hafner, C. A. (2012). Understanding digital literacies: A practical introduction. London: Routledge.
Knobel, M., & Lankshear, C. (2008). Digital literacies: Concepts, policies and practices. New York: Peter Lang.
Knobel, M., & Lankshear, C. (2008). Remix: The Art and Craft of Endless Hybridization. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 52(1), 22-33.
doi:10.1598/jaal.52.1.3