DMAC (Digital Media and Composition) is a 10-day professional institute for scholars in the field of Rhetoric & Composition looking to enter into (or strengthen their experience with) digital tools to enhance their pedagogy.
The following is a daily schedule and readings to help exemplify the kind of work accomplished at DMAC.
First, we worked with several experts in the field of Rhetoric & Composition.
Including, scholars of disability and inclusion:
DAILY SCHEDULE of DMAC INSTITUTE
Monday 5/9
Why English Teachers Should Think about Digital Technology, Design, and Multimodal Composition
| 9:00 | Welcome to DMAC! (Cindy + Scott, et. al. @ 311) |
| 10:00 | Introduction to Concept in 60 (Cindy + Scott, 311) |
| 11:00 | Introduction to audio devices and capturing |
| 11:30 | Lunch: on your own (record assets) |
| 12:00 | Installing Audacity—this must be on your computer (311) |
| 1:00 | Downloading and managing files (Cindy + Scott @ 312) |
| 1:30 | Audacity basics and audio editing (311 + 312) |
| 5:15 | Regroup and break (Cindy + Scott @ 311) |
| 6:00 | Dinner @ Mad Mex (1542 High Street, with shuttle service back to SpringHill Suites) |
ZOOM AUDIO SETTINGS
- AAC 192kbps
- Gain: High
- Zoom Q3 (silver) manual: https://www.zoom.co.jp/sites/default/files/products/downloads/pdfs/E_Q3HD.pdf
- Zoom Q8 (black) manual: https://zoom-na.com/sites/default/files/products/downloads/pdfs/E_Q8.pdf
HARD DRIVE FILES
AUDIO ENCODER
ASSIGNMENTS
- Soundtrack in 60 (first draft due by end of day)
RESOURCES
FOCAL READINGS
- Elizabeth Daley, “Expanding the Concept of Literacy” EDUCAUSE Review 38.2 (2003)
- Stuart Selber, “Reimagining Computer Literacies” Multiliteracies for a Digital Age (Southern Illinois University Press, 2004)
- Cynthia Selfe, “The Movement of Air, the Breath of Meaning” College Composition and Communication 60.4 (2009)
- Updated link to audio essays for Selfe reading
FOR LATER
- Claire Lauer, “Contending with Terms” Computers and Composition 26 (2009)
- John Soloman, “Pulling Back the Curtain” On the Media (NPR, 2007)
- Philip Tagg, “Reading Sounds, or an Essay on Sounds, Music, Knowledge, Rock, and Society” (1987)
DALN SELECTIONS
- Anonymous, “I am a Creative Being” (2009)
- Anonymous, “The Lost Art of Note Passing” (2012)
- Darius Streets, “My Introduction to Love” (2009)
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Tuesday 5/10
Using Images and Video to Think About Multimodal Composition
| 9:00 | DMAC Business (Cindy + Scott, et. al. @ 311) |
| 9:15 | Discussion of Focal Readings (Cindy + Scott @ 311) |
| 10:00 | Introduction to video devices and capturing (Scott @ 311) |
| 11:00 | Introduction to iMovie/searching for assets: tutorial |
| 12:00 | Lunch: on your own (record assets) |
| 1:30 | iMovie studio continued (Scott @ 312) |
| 4:45 | Regroup and Break (311) |
VIDEO SETTINGS
- HD720 @ 30 or 60 fps
- 24mbps/16mbps (you decide…)
ASSIGNMENTS
FOCAL READINGS
- Scott McCloud, “Blood in the Gutter” Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (William Morrow, 2004)
- The New London Group, “A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies” Harvard Educational Review 66.1 (1996)
FOR LATER
- Scott McCloud, “Time Frames” Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (William Morrow, 2004)
CONCEPT IN 60 INSPIRATION
- Everynone, “Radiolab Presents Symmetry” (2011)
- Everynone, “Radiolab and NPR Present Words” (2010)
- Everynone, “Radiolab and NPR Present Parabolas” (2009)
VIDEO RESOURCES
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Wednesday 5/11
Perspectives on Learning and Teaching with Multimedia
| 9:00 | Bonnie Stewart Innovate Keynote Address (Archie M. Griffin West Ballroom, Ohio Union, 1739 N. High St., optional) |
| 9:00 | DMAC Business (Cindy + Scott, et. al. @ 311) |
| 9:15 | Discussion of Focal Readings (Cindy + Scott @ 311) |
| 10:30 | Break |
| 10:45 | Advanced video editing (Scott @312) |
| 12:00 | Lunch: on your own |
| 1:00 | Studio time |
| 3:00 | Brenda Brueggemann: “Captioning, Rhetorically” |
| 4:45 | Regroup and Break (311) |
ASSIGNMENTS
FOCAL READINGS
- Tristan Whiston, “Middle C” (Tristan Whiston and Carma Jolly, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 2010)
- John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek” (The New York Times, 2012)
- Steve Duenes, Erin Kissane, Andrew Kueneman, Jacky Myint, Graham Roberts, Catherine Spangler, “How We Made Snow Fall”
READINGS FOR “CAPTIONING, RHETORICALLY”
- Captioning, Rhetorically Presentation (PowerPoint)
- This Rhetorical Life, Podcast 28: “Transcription//Translation”
- Sean Zdenek, “Subtitles as Visual Art”
- Sean Zdenek, Blog: Accessible Rhetoric
- Notes from Brenda: Everyone should glance through posts on Zdenek’s fabulous blog: Accessible Rhetoric. Please sign up for CATEGORIES under “Closed Captioning” of his blogposts overall and then focus on sifting lightly through some of the material under that category. Use this spreadsheet to sign up for one of the nine categories:
- Data mining
- Definitions
- Manner
- Music
- Non-speech
- Speaker IDs
- Stats
- Timing
- Visual Design
- Notes from Brenda: Everyone should glance through posts on Zdenek’s fabulous blog: Accessible Rhetoric. Please sign up for CATEGORIES under “Closed Captioning” of his blogposts overall and then focus on sifting lightly through some of the material under that category. Use this spreadsheet to sign up for one of the nine categories:
FOR LATER
- Scott DeWitt, “Optimistic Reciprocities” Stories That Speak to Us (Computers and Composition Digital Press, 2013)
- Dan Keller, “Directing Attention” Chasing Literacy (Utah State University Press, 2014)
- Jason Palmeri, “Creative Translations” Remixing Composition: A History of Multimodal Pedagogy (Southern Illinois University Press, 2012)
- Melanie Yergeau, et. al. “Multimodality in Motion: Disability & Kairotic Spaces” Kairos 18.1 (2013)
Thursday 5/12
Understanding the Public Domain, Creative Commons, and Remix
| 9:00 | DMAC Business (Cindy + Scott, et. al. @ 311) |
| 9:15 | Introduction to final project/copyright and fair use |
| 10:15 | Break |
| 10:30 | Starting WordPress (Michael Blancato) Handout for WordPress workshop |
| 12:00 | Lunch: provided by DMAC (pizza) |
| 12:00 | Kris Blair and Tim Lockridge: “Digital Publishing: Processes and Practices” (@209, graduate student workshop) |
| 2:00 | Break |
| 2:15 | Studio time |
| 4:45 | Regroup and Break (311) |
| 5:00 | Concept in 60 due (311) |
| 7:00 | Party @ Scott’s (with shuttle service from/to SpringHill Suites) |
ASSIGNMENT
- Concept in 60 (due at 5:00 pm)
FOCAL READINGS
- Crystal VanKooten, Handout on Copyright Law and Fair Use (word format)
- University of Texas, “Copyright Crash Course“
WORKSHOP READINGS
- Estee N. Beck, Kristine L. Blair, Mariana C. Grohowski. “Gendered Labor: The Work of Feminist Digital Praxis.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy (Fall 2015)
- Kristine Blair, Gail Hawisher, & Cynthia Selfe. “The Electronic Landscape of Journal Editing: Computers and Composition as a Scholarly Collective.” MLA Profession (2009): 160-167.
- Bruce Horner, Tim Lockridge, & Cynthia Selfe. Translinguality, Transmodality, and Difference: Exploring Dispositions and Change in Language and Learning. Enculturation Intermezzo Digital Monograph Series. 2015.
- Sidonie Smith. “Breathing Life into the Dissertation.” From Manifesto for the Humanities. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015.
- Elizabeth Chamberlain, Rachel Gramer, & Megan Faver Hartline. “Mess, Not Mastery: Encouraging Digital Design Dispositions in Girls.” Computers and Composition Online (Fall 2015)
- Erin Anderson, “The Olive Project” (Kairos)
FOR LATER
- Brett Gaylor, RiP! A Remix Manifesto (TDC Entertainment, 2014)
- Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture (Penguin Press, 2004): read chapters 6 and 7
FINAL PROJECT INSPIRATION
- Cardinal Compositions: A Print and Digital Journal of Undergraduate Student Work (founded by a University of Louisville team @ DMAC 2014)
- Ryan Sloan, “THE PROJECT, in three stages” (2014)
- Dianna Williams, “Project 2: On the Dance Floor” (2013)
Friday 5/13
Invention and Idea Generation for Multimodal Composing
| 9:00 | DMAC Business (Cindy + Scott, et. al. @ 311) |
| 9:15 | Continuing WordPress (Paula Miller) Handout for WordPress workshop |
| 10:15 | Break |
| 10:30 | Pamela Takayoshi: “Writing and Teaching Writing in Multilayered Composing Environments” |
| 12:00 | Lunch: on your own |
| 1:30 | Studio time (311 + 312) |
| 4:45 | Regroup and break |
ASSIGNMENTS
- Final Project (brainstorming and drafting)
FOCAL READINGS
- Pamela Takayoshi, “Short-form writing: Studying process in the context of contemporary composing technologies” (Computers and Composition 37 (2015): 1-13)
- Presentation Handout
Saturday 5/14
Invention and Idea Generation for Multimodal Composing
| 9:00 | Margaret Price: “Audio Description, Rhetorically Again” (presentation transcript) |
| 10:30 | Captioning workshop (Scott @ 312) |
| 12:00 | Open studio (closes at or before 3:00) (Chad) |
| 7:00 | Game Night at Old North Arcade (2591 N High St) |
WORKSHOP FILES
MovieCaptioner
1. Go to the MovieCaptioner website: http://www.synchrimedia.com/
2. Download Quicktime for Windows or Quicktime 7 for Mac (scroll to links along the left side of page).
3. Download Movie Captioner Demo (link at top of page).
Video File
1. Download the video file, “HinesCaption.mov.” (zip file here)
FOCAL READINGS
- Catherine Kudlick and Susan Schweik. “Collision and Collusion: Artists, Academics, and Activists in Dialogue with the University of California and Critical Disability Studies.” Disability Studies Quarterly 34.2 (2013). http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/4251/3609
- (Note from Margaret Price: You are welcome to read the whole article, but the part I’d like you to “zoom in” on is the section on participatory description. It begins with the line “The night before the start of the Arts Inclusion week” and goes about to “to create a chorus of many, many voices not performing yet still being heard.”)
- Georgina Kleege and Scott Wallin. “Audio Description as a Pedagogical Tool.” Disability Studies Quarterly 35.2 (2015). http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/4622/3945
- “No Ordinary Toothbrush” by Brittany Boltz (https://youtu.be/yRd0D_6v1eM)
- “Disabled Through Gender” by Anthony Workman (https://youtu.be/7lfqfOBMww4)
FOR LATER
- Amy Lueck and Shyam Sharma, “Writing a Translingual Script: Closed Captions in the English Multilingual Hearing Classroom” Kairos 17.3 (2013)
- Sean Zdenek, “Which Sounds Are Significant? Towards a Rhetoric of Closed Captioning” Disability Studies Quarterly 31.3 (2011)
- Patrick Besong, “Get Started with Video Captioning: A Beginner’s Guide to Making Video Accessible” (2013) large file
Sunday 5/15
Invention for the Final Project
| 3:00 | Open studio (closes at or before 6:00) (Paula) |
Monday 5/16
Assessing and Evaluating Multimodal Compositions
| 9:00 | DMAC Business (Cindy + Scott, et. al. @ 311) |
| 9:15 | Taking DMAC home |
| 9:30 | Discussion of focal readings |
| 10:30 | break |
| 10:45 | Isaac Weiner: “Soundmapping Religion in the Midwest” |
| 11:30 | Lunch: on your own |
| 1:00 | Studio time (until 4:45) (311 + 312) |
| 1:00 | Photoshop (optional) (Chad Iwertz) (Link to workshop files) |
| 3:30 | iBooks Author (Scott) (optional) (Link to workshop files) |
| 4:45 | Regroup and Break (311) |
| 7:00 | Party @ Cindy’s with Concept in 60 Screening (carpool) |
ASSIGNMENT
- Final Project (drafting)
FOCAL READINGS
- Charles Moran and Anne Herrington, “Seeking Guidance for Assessing Digital Compositions/Composing” Digital Writing Assessment & Evaluation (Computers and Composition Digital Press, 2013)
- Crystal VanKooten, “Toward a Rhetorically Sensitive Assessment Model for New Media Composition” Digital Writing Assessment & Evaluation (Computers and Composition Digital Press, 2013)
- Emily Wierszewski, “Something Old, Something New: Evaluative Criteria in Teacher Responses to Student Multimodal Texts” Digital Writing Assessment & Evaluation (Computers and Composition Digital Press, 2013)
Tuesday 5/17
Access and Design
| 9:00 | DMAC Business (Cindy + Scott, et. al. @ 311) |
| 9:15 | Studio Time: Final Project (311 + 312) |
| 12:00 | Lunch: provided by DMAC (sandwiches) |
| 12:00 | Multimodal composing and race (Cindy + panelists) (optional session) (link to workshop materials) |
| 1:30 | Introduction to coding–HTML and CSS (Erin Bahl) (optional session) (workshop files) |
| 2:30 | Studio Time |
| 4:45 | Regroup and Break (311) |
| 5:30 | Open Studio (closes at or before 8:30) (Mike) |
ASSIGNMENT
- Final Project (finalizing)
FOCAL READINGS
- Adam Banks, “Funk, Flight, and Freedom” (2015 CCCC Chair Address)
- Katie Comer and Michael Harker, “The Pedagogy of the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives: A Survey” Computers and Composition 35 (2015)
MATERIALS FOR “MULTIMODAL COMPOSING AND RACE”
FOR LATER
- Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis, “Designs for Social Futures” Multiliteracies (Routledge, 2000)”
- English 367: Collecting the Literacy Narratives of Black Columbus” (2011)
- Erica Womack, “Terrence and Tori Tate” English 367: Collecting the Literacy Narratives of Black Columbus (2011)
RESOURCES
- DMAC Letter for Home (with letterhead)
- DMAC Letter for Home (without letterhead–OSU color paper in back)
- DMAC Survey
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Wednesday 5/18
Final Project Showcase and Goodbyes
| 9:00 | DMAC Business (Cindy + Scott, et. al. @ 311) |
| 9:15 | Set Up Final Projects (311, 312) |
| 9:30 | Final Project Showcase and Feedback (311, 312) |
| 12:00 | Regroup and Break (311) |
ASSIGNMENT
- Final Project Spreadsheet
- DMAC Survey
- Final Project (showcase)
Teaching Multiliteracies 
