Writing Prompt:

From The Horizon Report:
"There is a skills gap between understanding how to use tools for media creation and how to create meaningful content. Although new tools make it increasingly easy to produce multimedia works, students lack essential skills in composition, storytelling, and design. In addition, faculty need curricula that adapt to the pace of change and that teach the skills that will be needed—even though it is not clear what all those skills may be."

What does this mean to us as educators? How do we utilize the tools available to us in purposeful ways? How do we lend our professional expertise to emerging technologies to help with the creation of compelling communication in our lives, our classrooms, and our writing project sites?

Write your response in your blog.

Multimodal Writing

The purpose of this case study is to examine how the transformation of a course assignment from an essay genre to a multimodal format increased students' focus on creating compelling communication.

• Digital documents in a college writing class
  • Technologies used:
    • blogger.com
    • gabcast.com
    • various image capturing devices
      • digital cameras
      • cellphones
      • camcorders
        
    • various movie production software
      • MovieMaker
      • iMovie
      • Pinnacle

• Technologies used
  • VoiceThread
  • TM07 VoiceThread example
    
• Examples
  
  • UWP service area on Tagzania
  • What is the Utah Writing Project? The UWP web site and script that came from it
  • Western Mass site map
  • Western Mass SI Writing Marathon
  • Flickr on EMWP
  • BAWP's Digital Paper
    

Birds of a Feather

Mini Grants: Betty Collum and Felicia George

Minigrant Review Process

NCWP Minigrant Application

UCLA 2006 Minigrant Proposal

Documenting TM07