ORASMYN REMIX

Stage 5 Unit on Napoli’s ‘Beast’

SUMMARYUnit

• Prior Learning• New Learning• Assessment

Lesson• Remix (multimodal)• Remix (visual)

Segment

Discussion

PRIOR LEARNING

Students have read most of the novel ‘Beast’ by

Donna Jo Napoli

Students have already been using some form of

blogging and have active accounts

Students have discussed the themes and the

subject matter of the novel, i.e. they know the

metalanguage

NEW LEARNING

Students will learn about the genres of remixing

Students will explore the multimodal remix text of

Fatima al Qadiri and Tabor Rohak

Students will open a imagechef account

Students will upload images to imagechef and

manipulate them to create “stickers”

Students will create a 1-2 page remix in class

ASSESSMENT

At home, students may edit their remix to make it

up 10 pages if they wish

In the last lesson of the unit students will add the

remix to a blog about the character Orasmyn which

will include at minimum one separate 60 word

summary (no more no less)

REMIX

Remixing is the practice of appropriating images

and/or sound from a rich variety of sources to

create representation of a new concept. It is a

form of digital collage and is often multimodal.

http://lunavega.net/2011/09/remix-culture-the-new-web-transform

ation/

VATICAN VIBES

The example we will first explore is ‘Vatican Vibes’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKosaf5tmpI#t=46

OUR FIRST REMIXThe type of text we will produce will be something more like this:

http://www.imagechef.com/ic/myitem.jsp?myremix=26511304

BECOME AN IMAGECHEF

Go to:

http://www.imagechef.com/ic/sketchpad

/

Create and account using your secure

school email

CREATE A REMIX

Open link to earlier example: http://www.imagechef.com/ic/

myitem.jsp?myremix=26511304

Find and click on the tab ‘Make Your Own’

Decide on a focus:

a) Orasmyn’s masculinity

b) Orasmyn’s culture

Upload relevant images to your chosen theme and create “stickers”

Import images and stickers into your remix and play around with it

INCLUSION

SOME:Ss will extend

their blog

MOST: Ss will be on topic

Ss will add more slides (10 max)

ALL:

Ss will make a Remix (1-2 slides)

DISCUSSION

Is there anything you think I could improve in my

delivery of this segment/unit?

How might you use ‘remix’ to engage students and

get them responding to/producing texts?