Multimodal Authoring: Intersections of Culture and Practice

Session Submission Type: Alternative Format Session

Abstract

Participants will explore culturally relevant, responsive, sustaining, and revitalizing pedagogies through multimodal authoring. First, we highlight four studies that focus on the centrality of culture and multimodal authoring across the age spans. Then participants will engage in interactive inquiry identifying issues and effective strategies for fostering this literacy practice to identify “pockets of hope” for impacting our own lives, the lives of teachers and students with whom we work, and the profession.

Content Area

• AREA 7. Critical, Cultural, and Social Issues of Literacy Practices In and Out of School

Discussant

• Ramón Martínez, Stanford University

Presenters

• Melanie Reaves, Montana State University Billings

• Rachael Waller, Montana State University Billings

• Sally Brown, Georgia Southern University

• Ling Hao, University of South Carolina

• Monica Thomas Billen, California State University, Fresno

• Karen Ventura-Kalen, University of Wyoming