Are you thinking of inspiring your students to get a little more creative in their class projects in our remote learning environment? Then this is the workshop for you! What are multimodal projects? In our present digital age, language and visual communication work together to organize content and create meaning. Text is no longer delivered in isolation; instead, multimodal combinations of language, images, video, sound and space all take part in the process of communication. This is not new by any means; however, faculty continue to face challenges in how best to incorporate media projects into their courses. In this workshop, we will focus on ways that multimodal projects can align with and inform particular class and project outcomes. We begin by uncovering strategies of how to adapt course content to facilitate successful multimodal projects from students. By familiarizing participants with methods and examples, we will demonstrate ways to purposefully target and connect multimodal learning and communication specific to your disciplinary outcomes. The session will conclude with a tour of our new online resource, which contains advice for implementation, ideas for projects, student-facing resources, nifty tools, and rubrics and assessment strategies for grading that take into account project objectives and how knowledge is demonstrated in the work. By the end of the workshop, instructors will feel more confident in how to implement multimodal assignments to achieve course learning goals.
Hosts
Christine D’Onofrio
Associate Professor of Teaching Art History and Visual Arts Chair Bachelor of Media Studies
Silvia Bartolic
Associate Professor of Teaching & Undergraduate Chair Sociology
Richard Arias Hernandez
Associate Professor of Teaching School of Information, Bachelor of Media Studies
