Teaching Multimodal Assignments through an Editorial PedagogyDr. Cheryl E. BallWest Virginia Universityhttp://ceball.com@s2ceball

theories & concepts behind Writer/Designermultiliteracies pedagogyrhetorical genre studiesaccessibility & usability theory editorial pedagogy

theories that inform practice

New London Groups Modes of Meaninglinguistic (delivery, vocab, logos, )aural (music, sound effects, )visual (colors, perspective, )gestural (body, kinesics, feeling/affect, )spatial (layout, architecture, ) Cope & Kalantzis (Eds.), Multiliteracies: A Pedagogy for the Design of Social Futures, 2000, p. 26.any combination = multimodal

key theoristslanguage for talking about mm

New London Groups Pedagogy of MultiliteraciesSituated practiceOvert instructionCritical framingTransformed practiceimage from http://www.psephizo.com/Available DesignsDesign(ing)Redesign(ing)

enacting that theory

Rhetorical genre studiesreal-world genresactual audiencesevaluative criteria based on above

Bawarshi & Reiff, Genre: An introduction, 2010. http://wac.colostate.edu/books/bawarshi_reiff/free book|\/

language-intensive focus: RGSgenres arent static (social action)

Editorial Pedagogypara-professionalizationmentoringrecursive learningreal audiences

Ball, Cheryl E. (2012) Editorial Pedagogy. Hybrid Pedagogy

pulling everything together under a Big pedagogical Tent

Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, & Pedagogythe journal

Kairos is how I learned to enact an editorial pedagogy in my classrooms.What is Kairos [explain: audience, online, peer reviewed scholarship, my editorialship]

webtext examples

What are webtexts? [RQs, unique designs](Ima come back to how this relates to my class let me introduce the editorial part of my pedagogy)

peer reviewprocess

Authors for Kairos dont ever get accepted in first submission.developmentalformativerecursiveevaluativeasking students to compose webtexts in my writing-intensive classes (not always

formative feedback for webtext designsrhetoricityaccessibilityusabilitysustainability

> design editing

macrodesign-editing

macro example peer review: rhetoricity

macro assessment criteriacreativityconceptual coreresearch/credibilityform : contentaudiencetimeliness

dynamic criteria mapping

microdesign-editing

Matsuda >(listen once. Write down key words once.)

microassessment criteriakey terms??disciplinary knowledge?disciplinary expectations?cultural expectations?genre conventions?technical affordances?breaking of genres?

Webtext Assignment Sequenceteaching philosophy & values [1 week]readings in field & values analysis [2-3 weeks]venue/publication analysis [1 week]audience & genre analysis [2 weeks]media, modes, & tech analysis [2 weeks]project pitch & proposal [2-3 weeks]collaborative webtext [4-5 weeks]peer-review & reflection [1-2 weeks]submission emails [1 week]

undergraduate student publications

undergraduate student research publications (special issue)

What genres would work in your classes?

Cheryl Ball | s2ceball@gmail.com | @s2ceball | http://ceball.comThank you.