Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
347813 Computers and Composition 2012 12 Pages PDF
Abstract

This article reports on efforts to create an administrative structure for learning and teaching multimodal composing that depends not on the leadership of a new media writing expert but on the collaboration of relative novices organized according to principles of emergent learning. Based on four years’ experience in a grant-funded program that supports new media composing in multiple disciplines, I report on the benefits of a bottom-up, emergent approach while raising questions about the long-term sustainability of such an approach. I conclude by describing efforts to create more top-down support for new media composing, while remaining committed to serving the teachers and students who are the real agents of change.

► I describe a multidisciplinary New Media Writing Studio program. ► This program was modeled on principles of emergent learning. ► To effect change, both top-down and bottom-up support are needed.

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