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In the coming decades, the platforms and formalisms scholars employ to display, transform, and transmit information will continue to evolve. Innovations in information management did not stop with the codex. They will not stop with the... more
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      Music EducationPhilosophyCommunicationInstructional Design
Communication technologies are heavily utilized in the lives of students: Pren-sky (2001) says that the constant exposure to technological resources lead's to-day's students to develop hypertext mind that are physiologically different... more
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      Composition and RhetoricMultimodal Composition
This research analyzed the composing processes of one high school student as she designed the interiors of homes for a course in interior design. Data included field notes, an interview with the teacher, artifacts from the class, and the... more
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      SemioticsPsychologySituated CognitionInterior Design
Recognizing the inherent value of refugee youth’s diverse and powerful linguistic and cultural capital, this case study adds to the growing body of research regarding refugee youth’s intersecting identities and multilitera- cies by... more
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      LiteracyMultimodal CompositionRefugeesIdentity
This piece explores the possibilities (and complexities) of multimodal composition, using examples from a project in which fifth-grade students used digital media to create unexpected stories about their communities.
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Na sequência de um trabalho de investigação (Dias, 2007), procedemos à instalação e disponibilização da plataforma de eportefólio Elgg (open source) e a sessões para sua divulgação, na Escola Secundária Padre Benjamim Salgado (ESPBS).... more
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      EportfolioConstructivist EducationStudent Centered LearningMultimodal Composition
Tenth-grade students used a contemporary graphic novel and William Shakespeare's Hamlet to create a multimodal composition speaking back to the ways in which power and privilege operate in these texts. " M aybe I do like English class,... more
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      Multimodal CompositionComics and Graphic NovelsCritical Literacy
This study investigates the usability of print and online video instructions for computer tasks. Usability tests, comprehension tests, and questionnaires were collected from participants, and 4 areas of usability were analyzed:... more
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      Human Computer InteractionUsabilityTechnical CommunicationTechnical Writing
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      Discourse AnalysisGenre studiesWritingSystemic Functional Linguistics
Na sequência de um trabalho de investigação (Dias, 2007), procedemos à instalação e disponibilização da plataforma de eportefólio Elgg (open source) e a sessões para sua divulgação, na Escola Secundária Padre Benjamim Salgado (ESPBS).... more
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      EportfolioConstructivist EducationStudent Centered LearningMultimodal Composition
Co-edited by Crag Hill and Nico Vassilakis, The Last Vispo Anthology documents a profound shift in visual poetry, new digital media stretching the parameters – the potential – of the alphabet. Through inclusion of 148 contributors from 23... more
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      Multimodal CompositionVisual Poetry
Because of the vast changes to the communication landscape over the last two decades, along with the influence of emerging technologies on students’ writing practices, empirical studies that describe students’ experiences in multimodal... more
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      SemioticsRhetoricComposition and RhetoricDigital Rhetorics
Part 1, Chapter 2: Composing Sociality: Toward an Aesthetics of Transition Design Composing sociality is a group practice in which artwork functions in tandem with natural social systems. Composing sociality is a feedback loop: group... more
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      MusicMusicologySoundscape StudiesSound studies
In this article we highlight analyses conducted in two qualitative literacy studies to discuss various implications of a blended, or hybrid, approach to multimodal analysis. By investigating several prominent frameworks commonly used... more
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      LiteracyDigital LiteracyQualitative methodologyVisual Literacy
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      Composition StudiesAcademic WritingWriting StudiesMultimodal Composition
Na sequência de um trabalho de investigação (Dias, 2007), procedemos à instalação e disponibilização da plataforma de eportefólio Elgg (open source) e a sessões para sua divulgação, na Escola Secundária Padre Benjamim Salgado (ESPBS).... more
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      EportfolioConstructivist EducationStudent Centered LearningMultimodal Composition
Syllabus for a first year writing course at Georgia Tech where students analyzed print and digital comics about mental illness in preparation for creating their own digital research-based comics designed to raise awareness about mental... more
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      Comics StudiesMultimodal CompositionDigital CompositionComics and Graphic Novels
Comics—both digital and print—increasingly make their way to the classroom. Scholars in the field have illustrated the pedagogical value of comics, but there remains little discussion as of yet about how comics can inform critical... more
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      Composition StudiesRhetoricComposition and RhetoricRhetorical Analysis
This research analyzed the composing processes of one high school student as she designed the interiors of homes for a course in interior design. Data included field notes, an interview with the teacher, artifacts from the class, and the... more
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      SemioticsSituated CognitionInterior DesignCase Studies
This paper explores the impact of NCLB on the behavior of teachers and school leaders and juxtaposes their reactions to the types of teaching and leadership needed to lead 21st century schools, as described by the authors of the 21st... more
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      AccountabilityConstructivist EducationStudent Centered LearningMultimodal Composition
This study draws on pre- and post-surveys of 574 upper primary students who engaged in intensive work over two school terms to produce a multimodal narrative using desktop animation software. It was thought that factors such as general... more
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      Multimodal CompositionProject-Based LearningMultimodal Literacy
To understand the representation and communication from a multimodal perspective challenges the hegemony of the written code for learning and places prominently the role of other semiotic systems to construct meaning. This movement is... more
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      Multimodal CompositionMultimodalityMultimodal learningMultimodal Communication
At a time when state standards and assessments drive educational policy and literacy is defined as print-based, students who don’t meet external benchmarks for developing skills along what is considered to be a “normal trajectory” are... more
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      Gender StudiesMiddle School/Level EducationCritical Race TheoryEnglish Language Arts
The article "The Old Axololt by Jacek Dukaj: Between Multimodality and Transmediality" attempts to revise the categories of hypertexuality, multimodality and transmediality in the context of the idea of multi-layered narration in Jacek... more
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      Comparative LiteraturePhilosophyLiteratureCyberpunk
Purpose-This article presents an analysis of empirical literature on classroom assessment of students' multimodal compositions to characterize the field and make recommendations for teachers and researchers. Design/methodology/approach-An... more
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      AssessmentNew LiteraciesDigital Media And New LiteraciesMultimodal Composition
The better quality pdf is downloadible from here: "http://www.leoalmanac.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/LEAVol19No3-Mailman.pdf Through recent artistic practices and technology of interactive systems for music, composition and... more
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      Applied MathematicsSet TheoryAlgorithmsHuman Computer Interaction
My combined interests in American literature and culture on the one hand, and digital culture, on the other, despite being so diverse as subjects, eventually blended in what I teach and in how I teach it, and became also the focus of my... more
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      American LiteratureDigital HumanitiesMultimodal CompositionMultimodal Literacy
This interpretive case study investigated how a fifth-grade teacher's social practices with visual and linguistic signs positioned her students (10-and 11-year-olds) to take up particular modes as they constructed digital compositions.... more
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      Multimodal CompositionMultimodality, Social SemioticsIntersemiotics
Course Description This section of English 177: Literature and Popular Culture, The Graphic Novel was designed to teach students to " make compelling arguments about and in various media " and to produce a " professional-like final... more
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      Community Engagement & ParticipationComics StudiesPedagogyMultimodal Composition
Abstract This article introduces the term “visual essay” by tracing the genre’s history through the concrete poetry movement and the rise of the lyric essay. In describing the aims of visual essays, Minor distinguishes between... more
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      Creative WritingPoetryComicsMultimodal Composition
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      Discourse AnalysisSociologyHuman Computer InteractionAnthropology
Na sequência de um trabalho de investigação , procedemos à instalação e disponibilização da plataforma de eportefólio Elgg (open source) e a sessões para sua divulgação, na Escola Secundária Padre Benjamim Salgado (ESPBS). Neste momento,... more
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      EportfolioConstructivist EducationStudent Centered LearningMultimodal Composition
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      LiteracyEducationDigital Media & LearningDigital Media And New Literacies
This article presents a 2-year case study of Héctor, a member of a school-based Comics Inquiry Community. Through a close, chronological examination of Héctor’s multimodal reading and composing practices as a sixth- and seventh- grade... more
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      Comics StudiesComicsNew literacy studiesComics/Sequential Art
This study explores English language learners' crafting process of a digital storytelling project in an instructional setting. By analyzing two English language learners' digital storytelling projects and their personal crafting... more
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      New LiteraciesSecond Language WritingMultimodal Composition
This case study describes the creation of a digital multimodal poem by Mara, a preservice English Education teacher at a large state namesake university located in the Southeastern United States. Drawing on sociocultural... more
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      Teacher EducationMultimodal Composition
Esta ponencia revisa y analiza algunas investigaciones sobre la enseñanza de la argumentación en la escritura de textos multimodales digitales, temática que se aborda en tres momentos a saber: 1) argumentación y didáctica de... more
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      Multimodal CompositionMultimodal Discourse AnalysisMultimodal LiteracyMultimodality, Social Semiotics
This course emphasizes critical reading, writing, and textual analysis with particular focus on argument and research-based writing. In addition, you will build upon and improve your mastery of writing in different genres; refine your... more
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      Composition and RhetoricSocial JusticeMultimodal CompositionSocial Causes
The main purpose of this research is to evaluate the effects of a constructivist instructional design on a group of students and their teacher. The sample consisted of 26 students and one teacher. The research was conducted at Istanbul... more
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      Computer ScienceInformation TechnologyEducationInstructional Design
This article reports on the activities undertaken in a U. S. high school through which students produced video texts designed to address key social problems. The authors argue against conventional "writing process" models that assert a... more
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      Critical TheoryPsychologyMultimodal CompositionWriting Processes
This dissertation seeks to create a vision for virtuality culture through a theoretical expansion of Walter Ong’s literacy and orality culture model. It investigates the ubiquitous and multimodal nature of the virtuality cultural... more
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      Cultural HistoryCultural StudiesPhilosophyPhilosophy Of Language
An increase in the use of technology in education has led to changes in the way learning takes place and content is represented. However, despite this trend and preferences for digital modes of communication and challenges encountered by... more
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      AssessmentAssessment in Higher EducationMultimodal CompositionSelf-directed learning
Alexander, Powell and Green explore what traditional, nontraditional, and basic writing students view as the affordances, or potentials and limitations, of multimodal composition. These affordances include the potentials of layering,... more
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      Composition and RhetoricWriting StudiesMultimodal CompositionAffordances
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      Literature and Visual ArtsMultimodal CompositionComics and Graphic NovelsReader-Response Theory
In 1981 Peter Handke published the semi-autobiographical text Kindergeschichte, containing reflections on the early years of life with his daughter Amina. During these years, Amina frequently wrote and drew in her father's notebooks. This... more
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      Models of Creativity & of Creative ProcessesWord and Image StudiesTextual CriticismGenetic Criticism (Genetic Criticism)
This study argues that organizational studies scholar Karl Weick’s concept of sensemaking can help to integrate competing scales of multimodal assessment: the pedagogical attention to the purposes, motivations, and needs of composing... more
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      Writing Program AdministrationSensemaking (Organizational Behavior)Multimodal CompositionMultimodality
Infographics have proliferated in our digital and print worlds in the last ten years, and they constitute a new literacy skill that English teachers and English teacher educators ought to embrace in their practices. This article shares... more
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      Teacher EducationWritingMultimodal CompositionMultimodal Literacy
In response to the widely acknowledged challenge of instructor expertise in multimodal composition (MC) teaching, our article discusses a pedagogical approach called distributed collaboration (DC)dan approach that facilitates... more
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      TechnologyComposition and RhetoricTeaching English as a Second LanguageDistributed Cognition