The document discusses remixing and mashups as a teaching tool and creative activity. It provides examples of remixes in music, video, and other media created by ordinary people. The document argues that remixing allows non-specialists to engage in activities like media production and empowers creative expression. It also discusses how remixing can be used in teaching to engage students in representing and transforming ideas from different sources.

1. Teaching as a Remix Activity Chris Shamburg March 30, 2011

2. Teaching Service Scholarship Life

3. Remix means to take cultural artifacts and manipulate them into new kinds of creative blends (Lankshear and Knobel, 2008).

4. Some Examples of Contemporary Remix Practices http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ek9CchVpWE http://www.archive.org/details/DjDangerMouse-TheGreyAlbum http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =UtEH6wZXPA4 http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =8rVVM7cJR40&list=PLAF5FE856762CBA8C&index=3 http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =dnhKPw2NXIw http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =2T5_0AGdFic

5. Two Views of Macbeth 1600 ( ) 2011

6. Remix as a Lens

7. DIY Media DIY Ethos: Allows ordinary people to pursue what had hitherto been professional tasks. It’s the empowerment of non-specialists…from home improvement to media production. (Knobel and Lankshear, 2010)

8. DIY Ethos Allows ordinary people to pursue what had hitherto been professional tasks. It’s the empowerment of non-specialists…from home improvement to media production. (Knobel and Lankshear, 2010)

9. 1.5 Million Hours of Programming On Major TV networks from 1948-2008

10. 1.5 Million Hours of Programming On Major TV networks from 1948-2008 On YouTube from July–December 2008

11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rVVM7cJR40&list=PLAF5FE856762CBA8C&index=3

12. Fanfiction

13. Machinima http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JTFgOIhdzs

14. Futuremedia @ Georgia Tech

15. Daniel Pink and Thomas Friedman on Globalization and Education Friedman : The assignment can be: “Mash these two together.” Pink : And these kids get mash-ups Friedman : Oh, they get mash-ups. They do it naturally. And today, he who mashes best will mash most and be wealthiest. From School Administrator February 2008

16. Context

17. Appropriation in Digital Culture RO to RW (Lessig, 2008) Spectatory Culture to Participatory Culture (Jenkins, 2008) Inside Guttenberg Parenthesis to Outside Guttenberg Parenthesis (Pettitt, 2007) New Literacies (Knobel and Lankshear, 2008, 2010)

18. Derivative or Transformational

19. Culture and Social Implications Jenkins Video http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =bhGBfuyN5gg

20. Send in the Female Jedis Can be done with a camera, camera phone, and free software. There are close to 17,500 results on YouTube for the search term, Lego animation There is an “On Demand” Channel on Comcast for Lego Animation that is almost entirely comprised of user-created films.

21. Cultural Implications http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu69QmvNh-4

22. Teaching Ideas

23. The Wall

24. Representational and Abstract Representational: Art that attempts to represent external reality Abstract: Art that does not imitate or directly represent external reality

25. Abstract Audio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ6q9BYJBmg http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =5aHfO1zaahE

26. Remix and Mashups http:// maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie =UTF8&hl= en&msa =0&msid=215454646984933465708.00049c59184ae1136341a

27. Remix and Mashup as Teaching Tools http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ek9CchVpWE http://www.archive.org/details/DjDangerMouse-TheGreyAlbum

28. Primary Sources latenightcabdriving (Photographer). (2011). A picture I took yesterday in Tahrir Square, Cairo, at 11 PM. [Photograph], Retrieved February 18, 2011, from: http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/f9a2m/a_picture_i_took_yesterday_in_tahrir_square_cairo/ latenightcabdriving (Photographer). (2011). Untitled [Photograph], Retrieved February 18, 2011, from: http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/f9a2m/a_picture_i_took_yesterday_in_tahrir_square_cairo/c1e96ac TV-Novosti (Producer). (2011, February 1). Sea of People: Over 250,000 in Cairo chant 'Mubarak, Leave!' [Video], Retrieved from: http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =HT8_wrsrNp8 X, Malcolm (Speaker), King Daevid MacKenzie (Producer). (2006). Echoes of a Century: Malcolm X on "The Ballot or The Bullet" [Audio], Retrieved from: http://radio.indymedia.org/en/node/9862 http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =Cz5BiqNKdfM

29. Remix to Research: Send a Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idh5-P2fmQM

30. Math and Science Applications Technical innovation is often more “bricolage than breakthrough”

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