Remixing Composition: A History of Multimodal Writing Pedagogy, Jason Palmeri

Student-Created Tabletop Foresight Games as Advocacy

“…As Jody Shipka explains it, multimodal formats facilitate situated learning through tapping into affective modes of learning and recognizing "highly distributed, embodied, translingual, and multimodal aspects of all communicative practice" (Shipka, 2016, p. 253). Recent studies agree that multimodality enhances rhetorical awareness, supports transferrable multiliteracy skills, and increases student agency (Cedillo, 2017;Dunn, 2021;Gonzales, 2018;Palmeri, 2012) Tanya Clement (2012) lists the crucial components that promote student learning outcomes in a PBL classroom: "critical thinking, commitment, community, and play" (p. 387). In accordance with Clement's findings, the game assignment framed writing and making as collaborative endeavors in which creation of the final project was not an end goal, but a tool to enable productive-and playful-engagement with interactive formats for critical thinking purposes.…”

Using GIFs to Position Students as Scholars

“…Composition teachers arguing for the incorporation of visuals and sound into the writing classroom predates the internet. As Palmeri (2012) argues, "Composition has always already been a field that has sought to help students draw connections between writing, image making, speaking, and listening" (p. 10). Ellis (2013) adds that multimodal writing can happen within traditional genres and can work as a bridge between academic literacies and the more everyday literacies of our students.…”

Foreword. Keep Playing, Friends

“…During the practicum or workshops, trainees first develop their teaching pedagogies through readings and discussions of multimodal composition (Cui, 2019;DePalma & Alexander, 2015;Lauer, 2009;Palmeri, 2012;Shipka, 2011); multiliteracies (Khadka, 2019;New London Group, 1996;Serafini & Gee, 2017), including critical, functional, and rhetorical (Selber, 2004); and online writing pedagogies DePew & Hewett, 2015). The training is practical as well, as the trainees also develop their online courses using their institutional LMS, aligning their course with their teaching pedagogies.…”