Hello Everyone!
I’d like to draw your attention to a week-long workshop called"Multimodal Writing, Digital Rhetorics" to be held during the second week of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), in Montreal, June 2-6.
The course (full description below) will consider multimodal composition and writing pedagogy in digital and analog environments across disciplines–it will be hands-on and practice based! Faculty, grad students, instructional designers, librarians are all welcome.
Come join us in Montreal! Early bird registration for DHSI continues till March 31.
Thanks,
Kris
Course Description:
A longstanding relationship exists between the digital humanities and writing studies as evidenced by journals like Kairos and Computers and Composition Online; however, in practice, the multi-faceted and mutually-influential relationship between digital technology, rhetorical theory, and interdisciplinary writing practices tends to be underestimated. By centrally orienting this relationship, our course will explore multimodal writing practices, theories, and pedagogies in digital spaces and reconsider how rhetorical aims, digital platforms, and disciplinary conventions work together to generate complex and unconventional ways of writing and opportunities for teaching.
We will consider multimodal composition across digital and analog environments, including open-access platforms like Scalar and Twine, and we will re-purpose everyday materials and software to reconsider rhetorical principles like invention and arrangement. Adopting an interdisciplinary writing studies lens, we will investigate questions like:
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How do we persuade and engage differently in digital and multimodal spaces?
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How do we understand what it means to be an author and a reader in different formats or media?
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How can we adopt co-creation and collaboration as frameworks for inclusive writing practices in digital spaces?
This course will be hands-on and will help faculty, graduate students, librarians, and instructional technologists design assignments and activities for (digital) humanities and interdisciplinary courses that include writing. We will collaborate on designing and scaffolding assignments, identifying methods for assessment, and collectively investigating the relationship between digital making tools and rhetorical practice and pedagogy. At the end of the week, participants will have a fully designed, scaffolded assignment and a better understanding of ways to incorporate digital writing approaches and tools into their teaching and scholarly communication.
Kristine Kelly, PhD
Lecturer in English
Writing Program
Bellflower Hall 206
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland OH 44106
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