Pml6

PML 6Locating culture: Who makes it, and how?

Learning Goals

Understanding audience, composition, purpose, and context

Performance/drama

Slam poetry and remix culture

Agenda

Discuss lesson redesigns (should be posted to your blog today)

Audience, purpose, and context: using Twitter to role play the classics and other experiments with social media

Discussion of readings

Lesson Redesigns

Posted to blog with resources and explanation of what you changed and why.

Be sure to credit original sources.

Remember your audience and purpose:

Audience: your peers and future colleagues

Purpose: to share, reflect, look for feedback

Brevity is the Soul of (t)Wit

Using Twitter to Role-Play the Classics

The Experiment

•Can we use Twitter to role-play Hamlet in real time?

•What would we learn if we tried it?

•What is the value of trying this in the classroom?

Twitter is an online social networking and

microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140

characters, informally known as "tweets".

Multimedia

Implications for the Classroom

Technology doesn’t necessarily = engagement

"What is the value in re-imagining a text using social

media?”

Big Ideas

Be the DirectorSet up the Twitter accounts yourselfnot so much for policing but so you can see all the planning that happens through direct messages.

An email account is necessary to set up a Twitter account, but I’ve found a good workaround is to use variations on a gmail address such as yourname+student1@gmail.com.

Lists

Create a list and add all the character handles to the list. This way people can follow a list rather than each character:

eg/ https://twitter.com/#!/danikabarker/brevity-2-0

Don’t grade this.

Not everything we do as teachers needs to be graded, although this is sometimes a tough sell for students. Assess, and have the students reflect but the second you tell students they’re being graded, it raises the level of anxiety and puts a stop to creativity and playfulness, especially when trying something new.

Other Applications

•History role playing: http://twitter.com/#!/danikabarker/mr-t-s-history-class•Backchanneling•Homework reminders•Developing a PLN

Everything’s A RemixIs this a rip off? (Four Corners Discussion)

IC

QuickTime™ and a decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

QuickTime™ and a decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Under Pressure Ice Ice Baby

Poetry Slam

Performance art competition

Scored 0-10 for content and performance

No props, no instruments, needs to be original

Can be performed as a team

Interactive

Poetry Slam

Althouse Poetry Slam

In small groups, compose an original poem for our Althouse Poetry Slam following the guidelines in the video reading for this week.

Audience: your peers

Purpose: to express your feelings, concerns, hopes, fears about teaching (and to understand how you can apply this to the classroom)

For Next Week

We’ll perform our poetry slam and debrief

Reading: "Curriculum theorizing for multiliteracies: A rebel with a cause" (Will be uploaded to OWL)