Presentation at EATAW 2021 (draft)

1. DIGITALSTORYTELLINGINAN
ACADEMICWRITINGCLASS:
CONNECTINGTWOFORMSOF
LITERACYINONESPACE
Joel Bloch

2. THEROADTOWARDSMYDREAMS:HTTPS://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=EYL2SQP5L00
DIGITALSTORYOFMR.MAENG:HTTPS://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=XO8HEQVZO9Y
JOSE’SDIGITALSTORY:HTTPS://YOUTU.BE/_ATFFI05CJU
NIGHTMARKET:HTTPS://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=UL1SB8MCE5E
HTTPS://YOUTU.BE/CD1PDZMG3BY
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Examples of Studen Stories
Examples of Student Stories

3. FACTORSINDETERMINGCHOICEOF MULTIMODALITY
Digital Storytelling

4. Factors Affecting Choice of Multimodality
◦ Social Context of Literacy
◦ Literacy within the academic
community
◦ Goals of the Course
◦ Affordances of the Technology

5. Social Context of Literacy
◦ Bringing Literacies from Outside the Classroom
◦ Multiple forms of literacy
◦ Role of viual print, and text literacies

6. LITERACY WITHIN THE ACADEMIC
COMMUNITY
• Challenge to academic discourse
• Print text challenged oral discourse
• Multiple Literacies bring in student voice and choice of
images and music

7. ◦Goals of the Course
• Traditional Goals of academic courses
• Mxing voice and images
• New goals: translingualism and the use of student
language
• Canagarajah (2018) approach to rhetorical translingualism
– birolage, addmeblge, rhizomatics
• Goals of multimodality – mixing texts, orality, images, and
music
• Intellectual {roperty

8. AFFORDANCESOF THETECHNOLOGIES
ABILITYTOREMIXIMAGESANDTEXTS
CHOICEOFIMAGESANDMUSIC
ABILITYTOPOSTANDSHARE
CHOOSINGADDITIONALTECHNOLOGIES

9. Connecting two forms of literacy in one space
◦ Role of Academic Literacy
◦ Questions about transfer in applied linguistics and multilingual composition
◦ how the connections with voice and texts
◦ Use of additional technologiest for reflection: blogs, online storyboards.