Recommended Readings
These Websites Offer Multimodal, Digital, and Online tools that you can utilize for classroom learning and activities.Brainstorming Sites Collaboration, File Share, and Document Library
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An excellent, up-to-date list of resources you might find helpful to reinvisioning your multimodal classroom can be found in the LRSP Group Library on www.zotero.com.
Simply create an account, sign in, and search for LRSP. This database enables you to instantly access citations and many URLs for important resources related to the teaching of writing, multimodal pedagogy, and writing studies.
Key Texts:
- Ellen Cushman et. al.’s Literacy: A Critical Sourcebook
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James Gee’s What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
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Carolyn Handa’s Visual Rhetoric in a Digital World: A Critical Sourcebook
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Gunther Kress’s Literacy in the New Media Age
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Lankshear and Knobel’s New Literacies
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Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics
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Stuart Selber’s Multiliteracies for a Digital Age
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Cynthia Selfe’s Multimodal Compositions: Resources for Teachers
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Michelle Sidler’s Computers in the Composition Classroom: A Critical Sourcebook
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Kathleen Tyner’s Literacy in a Digital World: Teaching and Learning in the Age of Information
Trick Sites (fun, innovative ways to engage in rhetorical work!)
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http://www.glogster.com/--digital posters
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http://issuu.com/--digital magazines
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http://letterpop.com/--digital newsletters
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http://animoto.com/ --music and images
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http://www.scholastic.com/amulet/makeyourown/ --graphic novel (limited) generator
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http://plasq.com/comiclife-win--free 30-day trial
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http://www.jingproject.com/--desktop recording software
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http://www.gimp.org/--poor man’s photoshop
Blog Sites
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Blogger: a Google product at: http://blogger.com
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WordPress: http://wordpress.com
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TypePad: http://typepad.com
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Edublogs: blogs for educators at http://edublogs.org/
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Xanga: http://xanga.com
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LiveJournal: http://livejournal.com