The document discusses shifting from a writer's workshop model to a designer's studio model. A writer's workshop focuses on composition, is logo-centric, and has a uni-modal process, while a designer's studio focuses on production, is media-centric, and has a multi-modal process with mindsets. It then presents a design challenge to redesign an informational text chapter to make it more user-friendly and discusses various design parameters and techniques that could be used, such as creating a visual model of the text, enabling the entire text to be viewed in one eye span, making the text zoomable, using small multiples of pages, and transmediating the text into a different medium.

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Writer’s Workshop
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Designer’s Studio
Douglas K. Hartman
College of Education
Michigan State University
dhartman@msu.edu
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Writer’s Workshop Designer’s Studio
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Writer’s Workshop Designer’s Studio
composition production
logo-centric media-centric
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Writer’s Workshop Designer’s Studio
composition production
logo-centric media-centric
process mindsets
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11. Shifting
Writer’s Workshop Designer’s Studio
composition production
logo-centric media-centric
uni-modal multi-modal
process mindsets
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13. Writing Process
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Wicked Problem
• A problem that is difficult or impossible to solve …
… because of incomplete, contradictory, irreconcilable, or changing
factors …
… that are often difficult to recognize …
… that have complex interdependencies …
… where solving one aspect reveals or creates another problem.
• Wicked denotes resistance to resolution …
… not something that’s evil.
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24. Wicked Problem
• Social studies chapter (informational text)
• Not as useable as it could be (unfriendly text)
• Redesigning it comes with tradeoffs (opportunity-cost text)
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25. Design Challenge
Do a textual makeover!
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27. Design Parameters
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28. Design Parameters
• Time
• Material
• Cost
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29. Design Parameters
1. Visual Model
2. One Eye Span
3. Zoomable
4. Small Multiples
5. Transmediation
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30. 1. Visual Model (of chapter)
• Summary
• Sketch
• Map
• Graphic
• Structure
• Mechanism
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31. 1. Visual Model (of chapter)
• Summary
• Map
• Graphic
• Structure
• Mechanism
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32. 1. Visual Model (of chapter)
• Summary
• Map
• Graphic
• Structure
• Mechanism
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33. 1. Visual Model (of chapter)
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34. 2. One Eye Span (of chapter)
• View entire text
in one look
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35. • View entire text
in one look
2. One Eye Span (of chapter)
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36. 2. One Eye Span (of chapter)
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37. 2. One Eye Span (of chapter)
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38. 2. One Eye Span (of chapter)
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39. 2. One Eye Span (of chapter)
• View entire text
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40. 3. Zoomable (chapter)
• Change the scale
of the eye-span area
• Adjust resolution
• See more or less detail
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41. 4. Small Multiples (of chapter)
• Small images of the text’s pages
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42. 4. Small Multiples (of chapter)
• Small images of the text’s pages
… permitting easy comparisons
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44. 4. Small Multiples (of chapter)
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45. 5. Transmediation (of chapter)
• transforming or redesigning a text
… into a different medium
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46. 5. Transmediation (of chapter)
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47. 5. Transmediation (of chapter)
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49. Design Resources
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50. Thank you!
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51. Q & A
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