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Beyond Writing in the Disciplines

Multimodal Communication Assignments *CIRTL*

Location

Online

Date & Time

April 9, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Description

Reposted from Faculty Development Center.


Multimodal communication is about making meaning through a combination of representation formats, e.g., words, images, sounds, and numbers. The ability to understand and design complex messages that mix modalities is crucial to students’ abilities to participate in academic disciplines and other professional domains. Students in all majors need to learn to distill research findings or creative products and present them in a variety of ways for a variety of audiences. In most disciplines, for example, students need to be as adept at preparing a slide show that combines graphics, text, sound and/or video, as they are at presenting their ideas orally in a clear and compelling way.

In this panel presentation, co-sponsored by the Writing Board and the Faculty Development Center, Lindsay Johnson (Music), Cynthia Wagner (Biology), and Marcela Mellinger and Nicki Belfiore (Social Work) will share a variety of multimodal communication assignments their students complete. They’ll also describe how they support students to prepare this work and how they assess the products. Your questions and discussion will close out the session.

Please register to attend the event, the Google calendar invitation with a WebEx link will be emailed one hour before the session. If you register less than an hour before the session, you will receive the WebEx link when you register. Please email fdc@umbc.edu if you have any questions. If you have registered and find that you can no longer attend, please kindly release your spot so that others may attend.

For questions about CIRTL please email Dr. Jamie Gurganus, the CIRTL director at jgurganus@umbc.edu.

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