Today’s workshop has a reading component: Cynthia L. Selfe’s “Toward New Media Texts,” which is available here for a limited time, and my notes for this discussion are available here. Also, Derek Van Ittersum and I have a set of notes on Assessing Multimodal Student Work available here. Please print out Selfe’s article and bring it to the workshop today in Satterfield Hall 104 at 1:00PM. I will have copies of my notes and
Below, I have included a number of resources that you can use to teach yourself and your students the basics of creating multimodal compositions. There are links to tutorials on the basics of using different media effectively and how to use those media’s composition technologies.
General Resources
Student Multimedia Studio Tutorials for English Composition Courses [KSU Library]
Student Multimedia Studio Tutorials–first class resource for getting started and teaching students how to use technology [KSU Library]
Online Writing
What Makes for Good Web Design [youtube]
How to Upload Web Pages to Kent State Student Personal Webspace [KSU Library]
HTML Tutorial 1 – Building a Website in Notepad [youtube]
How to Make/Design a Website with Dreamweaver [youtube]
How to Use WordPress.com [youtube]
How to Create a Blog on Blogger [youtube]
Presentations
Don McMillan: Life After Death by Powerpoint [youtube]
Powerpoint 2010 Basic Tutorial [youtube]
Pecha Kucha: Get to the Powerpoint in 20 Slides [youtube]
Audio
Katie Couric on How to Conduct a Good Interview [youtube]
How to Record an Oral History Interview [youtube]
Audacity Tutorial: Part 1 [youtube]
Movies
Film School: Basic Framing Types [youtube]
Shoot Your Friends – Filming Basics [youtube]
Learn iMovie 11 by Ken [youtube]
Getting Started Tutorial – Windows Live Movie Maker [youtube]
Dynamic Subspace 