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2019 Movie Making
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Creative Writing: Making Movies: Grades 6-11 Instructors Whitney Lew James and Kayla A. Sparks July 8-12, 2018 (9:00 am to 12:00 pm) Have you ever pictured yourself writing or directing the next great movie? How about handling the camera that introduces the next award-winning actor? Or being that actor? Join fellow future filmmakers to write, film,…
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2018 Movie Making
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Creative Writing: Making Movies: Grades 6-11 Instructors Whitney Lew James and Kayla A. Sparks July 9-13, 2018 (9:00 am to 12:00 pm) Have you ever pictured yourself writing or directing the next great movie? How about handling the camera that introduces the next award-winning actor? Or being that actor? Students in this class produce, script, film,…
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GlobalEx | Past Teams
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Meet Our 2017-2018 GlobalEX Teams Each GlobalEX team is in the process of EXploring, EXchanging and EXpanding local-global topics and initiating change on TCU’s campus and beyond. This year, all teams have Jamaican-inspired names because the winning GlobalEX Student Team takes a trip to Jamaica in the Spring of 2018! Click on the team names…
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Teaching Multimodally
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Why Teach in Multiple Modes? Introductory Concepts for ENGL 20803: Writing New Media (PPT) The first-day lecture for Curt Rode’s ENGL 20803, which has the theme of “Writing New Media.” Feel free to borrow what suits your needs. Preparing for the Adventure Jumping in with Both Feet: Creating and Assigning Multimodal Projects (PPT) The process of…
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DH: Disability Studies
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By NMWS Assistant Director Jackie Hoermann-Elliott Digital humanists have been leading the charge in growing Disability Studies as a significant and meaningful area of research and pedagogical development. If you’re unfamiliar with Disability Studies, scroll down this page to learn more. Why pursue Disability Studies? One of the most significant outcomes that arose from our…
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DH: Storytelling
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Digital storytelling is alive and well on podcasts (like Serial) and TED talks, of course. But how can you use digital storytelling to enhance your digital portfolio? StoryCenter is one excellent source of information. In StoryCenter’s “7 Elements of Digital Storytelling,” we learn that the most effective digital stories feature these key ingredients: point of view, a dramatic question,…
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MISD Workshop Goals
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Go for The Goals. (2016 Workshop Goals) For this workshop series, our goals were: We wanted attendees to go home with ideas for how to use digital tools to enhance their teaching of writing and with one assignment or unit jump started . Sample Activity: Take two minutes to write down what you’d like to…
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MISD Digital Writing
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Teaching Digital Writing According to the MISD curriculum pages for English/ Language Arts/ Reading, students are to create and deliver multimedia presentations by the end of the year. Likewise, “media literacy” is one of the ongoing skills to be learned by your students. What’s blogging about? Blogging makes the social reality of writing real. Before Google took over the Blogger.com online platform, the…
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MISD Digital Strategies II
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TEACHING DIGITAL STRATEGIES II: REVISING AND COMMENTING (2016 Workshop Activities Cont.) Activity: Modes of Response Take a few minutes and respond to the first few pages of a student draft, first on the hard copy and then on the Google doc version. What, if any, difference does the mode of response make? Digital strategies for drafting/collaboration Start with…
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MISD Digital Strategies I
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Digital Strategies for Teaching Writing (2016 Workshop Activities) Part I: Invention/Collaboration/Drafting Using the writing assignment you brought as an example, Multimodal = textual, aural, linguistic, spatial, and visual resources — or modes — used to compose messages. Multimodal Strategies for Invention Activity: Modes of Invention Chose one invention tool (Lucidchart, Bubbl.us, Coggle, or Post-its) and use it to brainstorm…