I guess my research is slightly on hold until I finish my book report and that I’m working on today. Basically though, what I am working on for anyone who doesn’t know is using remixing in the classroom. I wanted to find out how to include technology in the high school English classroom in ways that weren’t too difficult, yet could be motivating and uplifting for students. I am still semi-knew to the creation of podcasts and youtube videos and the editing of imovies, but I think they are technologies students should be getting experience with and I think using them to remix and rethink novels and other stories we read in the classroom would be a great thing. And by remixing I mean taking something that has been read and discussed in class and creating something new that has been fashioned out of new or pre-existing materials. Like mash-ups on YouTube, performances from the perspective of another character, or flash poetry based on a novel, my goal is to show how teachers can use this technology to have students displaying what they have learned in one context and transforming that into another context through metacognition, or informed decision-making. Remixing is powerful because it makes use of images, words, sounds, and any other medium it needs, to make a significant impact on its audience, helping students become literate in a multitude of ways. Through conscious decision-making skills, students can gain agency over their works and become “producers and participants” of a culture rather than just consumers of the texts teachers give them.
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So far, so good. BTW, if you haven’t looked at it yet, you should take a peek at my CCCC presentation, which is kind of about what you’re talking about here: http://stevendkrause.com/scholarship/cccc-2010/
I’m glad you reminded me about this! I looked at it before and wanted to remind myself to come back to it!
I think it sounds really cool, Angie, because I really like remixes and mashups. I think they offer a host of critical evaluation / thinking opportunities for students in a really creative and fun application. It even seems to give students who don’t like/have a passion for certain novels/poems etc. to be able to represent that position through a parodied or satirical mashup. And, to give students a way to expand the context of a particular work into something more meaningful. I was wondering if you are going to confront the copyright/IP issues in your project. Seems important, but at the same time I don’t think there would be anything wrong with attempting to just focus on the pedagogical implications of remixes and leave the copyright issues for another time.
No, not gonna touch the copyright thing. I know that’s bad, but that’s not my focus and I know this is going to sound awful, but I am not real worried about it, lol.
Hey… so I was continuing some of my own research and came across this article thru the ScienceDirect Database. Thought it might be useful 4 U.
Re-designing Graduate Education in Composition and Rhetoric: The Use of Remix as Concept, Material, and Method
Computers and Composition, Volume 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 4-12
Kathleen Blake Yancey
THANK YOU!!!
Yes, you should take a look at Steve’s presentation because it’s a model of remix on a more theoretical level that I think might be effective in an FYC setting. Similarly, here’s an article I read for my research into sound that uses a kind of similar approach:http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/gvcarter/index.html
Thanks so much bri! I’ve been wanting to supplement the materials I already had (had a few not so helpful sources!)
Angie your 516 project sounds fun and something that your HS English classes will benefit. It has been hard doing bookreport, class readings, and project not to mentions stuff for work. I am anxious to hear what you find out in a condensed form. I have come college students that would be able to handle it. However, I do have older students who are there for job training that bearly know how to turn a computer on so I have to be careful on who will be able to do remixing. Good luck and it sounds wonderful.