Re: [Spam:***** ] Re: [xmca] Call for Proposals and Reviewers

From: Monica E. Nilsson <monica.e.nilsson who-is-at bth.se>
Date: Fri Jul 18 2008 - 13:49:12 PDT

Absolutely -- hope to see you in San Diego in September?
Multimodality is in my understanding expansive in terms of learning
and communication; how, what and where, etc ....

Mo

18 jul 2008 kl. 09.23 skrev Duvall, Emily:

> Monica, I would love to talk with you about your work.
> I'm glad to hear others taking this direction. Some of my students
> have included collaborative engagements as part of their multimodal
> work... where the larger texts included teaching how to pitch in
> professional baseball and engaging in swimming competitions.
> I think one of my favorite texts was recorded history of a
> student's 10 or so years doing accapella singing and arranging as
> part of a multimodal 'Zine.
> I also have a colleague who has had students engage in critical
> media responses by applying Kress and theatre of the oppressed
> (Boal) to create new engagements to booking banning and banned
> books in high schools... these were preservice students and they
> created the digital stories...
> ~ Em
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-
> bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of Cathrene Connery
> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 5:38 PM
> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> Subject: Re: [Spam:***** ] Re: [xmca] Call for Proposals and Reviewers
>
>> Hello from Colorado,
> Sounds like a wonderful project! Monica, I really like your
> description
> of multimodality. Given the fact that we humans mediate in multiple
> means, it only seems correct to collect and analyze data from a
> multiplicity of sources in our quest to understand the mind.
> Best wishes,
> Cathrene
>
> I am presently doing research on Digital Storytelling applying Kress
>> (Literacy in the new media age, 2003) and Kress & van Leeuwen
>> (multimodal discource, 2001) in combination with Vygotsky's
>> "Imagination & Creativity". Thinking of presenting a paper at AERA...
>>
>> Multimodality is about making meaning with a diversity of
>> communicative modes: language, image, music, sound, texture and
>> gesture -- how they differ and how they can be combined. Kress says:
>> "the world told is a different world than the world shown"...
>>
>> MOnica
>>
>> 16 jul 2008 kl. 01.41 skrev judithg@id.iit.edu:
>>
>>> In addition to whatever Michael will send, I attended a quite
>>> wonderful conference on MultiModality and Learning in June,
>>> sponsored by the Institute of Education, University of London.
>>>
>>> See http://ioewebserver.ioe.ac.uk/ioe/cms/get.asp?cid=16841
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Judith
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Quoting Martin Packer <packer@duq.edu
>>>> Michael,
>>>>
>>>> I'm always interested in qualitative research, and I'm a
>>>> developmental
>>>> psychologist. Does 'multi-modal' in this context mean mixed
>>>> methods? Is
>>>> there a more specific form emerging for this second topic?
>>>>
>>>> best
>>>>
>>>> Martin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> __
>>>> Martin Packer, Ph.D.
>>>> Associate Professor
>>>> Psychology Department
>>>> Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 15282
>>>> (412) 396-4852
>>>>
>>>> www.mathcs.duq.edu/~packer/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 7/15/08 4:29 PM, "Michael A. Evans" <mae@vt.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear All,
>>>>>
>>>>> Wanted to submit one more inquiry regarding interest in the
>>>>> following two
>>>>> themes for possible AERA symposia:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Second life, WoW, and Other Virtual Environments for education
>>>>>
>>>>>> The role(s) of qualitative (multi-modal) research in the
>>>>>> conduct of research
>>>>> on learning and development
>>>>>
>>>>> Therešs room for 1-2 more abstracts on either topic if youšre
>>>>> interested in
>>>>> joining otherwise, Išll close this call and get working with
>>>>> those whošve
>>>>> already expressed an interest...
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Michael~
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> Judith Gregory, Ph.D.
>>> Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology
>>> 350 North LaSalle Street
>>> Chicago, IL 60610 USA
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