Teaching with Technology in First Year Writing @ Depaul:
Multimodal Composing
Digital Writing Portfolios
Michael Moore
Thursday, September 3rd, 2015
mmoore46@depaul.edu
362 SAC
(773) 325-4867
Multimodal Composing
Background & Pedagogical Contexts: 
Multimodal composing: the purposeful and rhetorical integration of different meaning-making modes—alphabetic text & typographic treatments, audio, video, gesture, color, animation, photographs, drawings—in order to achieve an intentional, rhetorical effect.
- Multiliteracies, Rhetoric & Engagement
- How and when to introduce, to support, to collect, to read, and to assess multimodal-composing projects; three approaches—textual/hybrid; digital; and material
- Resources
- Examples
Digital Writing Portfolios
Background & Pedagogical Contexts:
- Metacognition, meta-awareness, and reflection
- The role of the portfolio
- How and when to introduce, to support, to collect, to read, and to assess portfolios
- Examples
- Resources