Teaching as a Remix Activity

Chris Shamburg

March 30, 2011

Teaching

Service

Scholarship

Life

Remix means to take cultural artifacts and manipulate them into new kinds of creative blends (Lankshear and Knobel, 2008).

Some Examples of Contemporary Remix Practices

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ek9CchVpWE

http://www.archive.org/details/DjDangerMouse-TheGreyAlbum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtEH6wZXPA4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rVVM7cJR40&list=PLAF5FE856762CBA8C&index=3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnhKPw2NXIw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=2T5_0AGdFic

Two Views of Macbeth

1600 ( ) 2011

Remix as a Lens

DIY Media

DIY Ethos: Allows ordinary people to pursue what had hitherto been professional tasks. It’s the empowerment of non-specialists…from home improvement to media production.

(Knobel and Lankshear, 2010)

DIY Ethos

Allows ordinary people to pursue what had hitherto been professional tasks. It’s the empowerment of non-specialists…from home improvement to media production.

(Knobel and Lankshear, 2010)

1.5 Million Hours of Programming

On Major TV networks from 1948-2008

1.5 Million Hours of Programming

On Major TV networks from 1948-2008

On YouTube from July–December 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rVVM7cJR40&list=PLAF5FE856762CBA8C&index=3

Fanfiction

Machinima

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JTFgOIhdzs

Futuremedia @ Georgia Tech

Daniel Pink and Thomas Friedman on Globalization and Education

Friedman: The assignment can be: “Mash these two together.”

Pink: And these kids get mash-ups

Friedman: Oh, they get mash-ups. They do it naturally. And today, he who mashes best will mash most and be wealthiest.

From School Administrator February 2008

Context

Appropriation in Digital Culture

RO to RW (Lessig, 2008)

Spectatory Culture to Participatory Culture (Jenkins, 2008)

Inside Guttenberg Parenthesis to Outside Guttenberg Parenthesis (Pettitt, 2007)

New Literacies (Knobel and Lankshear, 2008, 2010)

Derivative or Transformational

Culture and Social Implications

Jenkins Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhGBfuyN5gg

Send in the Female Jedis• Can be done with a camera,

camera phone, and free software.

• There are close to 17,500 results on YouTube for the search term, Lego animation

• There is an “On Demand” Channel on Comcast for Lego Animation that is almost entirely comprised of user-created films.

Cultural Implications

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu69QmvNh-4

Teaching Ideas

The Wall

Representational and Abstract

Representational:

Art that attempts to represent external reality

Abstract:

Art that does not imitate or directly represent external reality

Abstract Audio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ6q9BYJBmg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aHfO1zaahE

Remix and Mashups

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=215454646984933465708.00049c59184ae1136341a

Remix and Mashup as Teaching Tools

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ek9CchVpWE

http://www.archive.org/details/

DjDangerMouse-TheGreyAlbum

Primary Sourceslatenightcabdriving (Photographer). (2011). A picture I took yesterday in Tahrir Square, Cairo,

at 11 PM. [Photograph], Retrieved February 18, 2011, from: http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/f9a2m/a_picture_i_took_yesterday_in_tahrir_square_cairo/

latenightcabdriving (Photographer). (2011). Untitled [Photograph], Retrieved February 18, 2011, from: http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/f9a2m/a_picture_i_took_yesterday_in_tahrir_square_cairo/c1e96ac

TV-Novosti (Producer). (2011, February 1). Sea of People: Over 250,000 in Cairo chant 'Mubarak, Leave!' [Video], Retrieved from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT8_wrsrNp8

X, Malcolm (Speaker), King Daevid MacKenzie (Producer). (2006). Echoes of a Century: Malcolm X on "The Ballot or The Bullet" [Audio], Retrieved from: http://radio.indymedia.org/en/node/9862

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz5BiqNKdfM

Remix to Research: Send a Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idh5-P2fmQM

Math and Science Applications

Technical innovation is often more “bricolage than breakthrough”

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