m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen

The teachers in the MWP summer institute are writing about place. I wanted to find a few bloggers who are writing about place and I found Tim Lindgren’s blog. His blog is a project on place blogging and he has quite a few place bloggers linked in his blogrolls. They might also [...]

This is my last post from DMAC. I had a fabulous time. I would recommend it to all who want to learn more about digital media. Cindy Selfe and Scott DeWitt are such wonderful people and fantastic instructors. I enjoyed hearing from all of the great scholars in the field. [...]

Issues of Race, Class, Culture, Sexuality, and Gender
Pam Takayoshi
Jeff Grabill
Samantha Blackmon
Jonathan Alexander
Some of the recommended texts:
When Race Breaks Out
Social Change In Diverse Teaching Contexts : Touchy Subjects And Routine Practices by Nancy G. Barron, Nancy M. Grimm, Sibylle Gruber, Editors.
My notes are a little sketchy, but below is some of what we talked about:
Jonathan: [...]

Using Others’ Online Work: Issues of Copyright, Plagiarism, and Research
Danielle DeVoss introduced the presentation — she was on a movie that they showed.
Heidi A. McKee and Jim Porter talked together about copyright and plagiarism.
Some of the additional resources they referred to include:
Chilling Effects organization helps people respond to cease and desist letters.
Some Like it Hot
Introduction [...]

I just umm-ed and ahh-ed my way through answering questions for a DMAC video, and it occurs to me that in addition to teaching how to compose with digital media, that we could also teach how to be recorded more effectively on digital media. For example, being at ease in front of the camera, [...]

The second session of the day is: Keeping the Focus on Rhetoric
Pat Sullivan, Lisa Ann Robertson, Ben McCorkle, Susan Delagrange
Lisa Ann Robertson uses a classical rhetorical lens to teach digital media. She studies Romanticism, the body, and cyberculture. When she teaches digital media, she teaches it *strong* at the very beginning of the [...]

June 7, 2006
Talking to Colleagues and Administrators
Gail Hawisher (or here) and Kris Blair (or here or here) led this first session of the morning.
Kris talked about electronic thesis and dissertations at Bowling Green. Gail talked about a writing with video course.
Kris assumes that everyone agrees that we want to integrate multimodal composing [...]

Brian Huot and Cindy were the next speakers of the day. They spoke about Assessing Digital and Multimodal Texts.
Wow! Already I’m thinking Huot is a good speaker. He is moving throughout the room and making eye contact with everyone. Cool!
They began with a 5-minute activity where they asked us [...]

The first speaker this morning spoke about accessibility. He had a webpage demonstration that illustrated the problems that some users might have with websites and applications. For example, movies that don’t have adequate sound, text displayed with inappropriate background and text colors, text that scrolled too fast, text that is too small, etc. [...]

The following are my notes from this morning.
In class discussion this morning, Mary Hocks and Scott DeWitt both emphasized that it would be easier if we add one digital assignment to our classes rather than change them completely all at once.
Where to start with Multimodal Composing and Where to Go
Mary Hocks
During her talk, various people [...]