Shipka had many great examples of multimodal projects that have been turned in for her past courses. Though they were all very creative, I wonder what a rubric (if one was to be used) would look like for such projects? Unlike Kress’ description of a “single, exclusive and intensive focus on written language” or a specific essay prompt, the possibilities are literally endless for this project. How are we to judge “how much work” has been put into the project or whether the idea meets some immeasurable quality of being creative? Would there still be some sort of word count included, especially in regards to 2135?
Dirk’s piece seems an obvious candidate to introduce 2135 students to the concept of genre. Would you personally share this essay with your class? Why or why not? If so, would it be the whole essay, a portion of it, and would it be supplemented? If not, are there other resources you think would work just as well or better?
Shaw,
ReplyDeleteI think you bring up an excellent point about Multimodal frameworks and rubrics. I think there is a sort of danger to overlooking multimodality as an automatically understood concept for the modern student. I feel like if you give a student too much free they can be equality as stifled as if you had give them too little freedom.
Thanks,
Jeannine
Shaw,
ReplyDeleteI definitely want to show my future ENC2135 classes the Dirk piece; however, I think it should be paired with Bitzer's "Rhetorical Situation" since Dirk seems to be in conversation with Bitzer and since Bitzer gives the better introductory explanation on the basics on rhetoric being situational (in my opinion). I like the message that Dirk presents on genre though in that when we teach our students genre they should be viewing the definition of genre in our classroom as a road map to adjust, not a holy text to cling to. As Dirk points out, genres are going to carry with them slightly or largely different expectations based on their context (and each classroom may be a different context). But I would definitely share the whole Bitzer essay and the whole Dirk essay to my class.
- Emily