Week Five

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Meaning Making in Digital Spaces

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Meaning Making - click to examine details

This week will focus on reading, relating and expressing in digital spaces. Our capacity to translate purpose, intention, feeling or ideas in a digital form will be explored. Following narratives across diverse digital forums can be a challenge. This includes reading, understanding and comprehending information from a variety of media formats, such as a sketch note, meme, Thinglink poster, or infographic.

It all starts with one video. Using VideoNot.es OR Vialogue, we'll collaborate on making sense of the media message. You can then repurpose ONE important idea from the video message using your choice of digital remix.

At the end of this lesson, you will be able to:

• explain elements of meaning making when digital information is created in multimodal formats (text, graphic, icon, audio, video)
• discuss how comprehension and composition of digital 'texts' are interdependent and how they impact meaning making
• complete a multimodal or interactive presentation about meaning making in today's classrooms
• solve meaning making and code breaking challenges while creating a meme, infographic or interactive image using various digital tools and resources
• compose analytical, digital, texts messages in collaborative, multimodal environments (D2L, VideoNot.es, Vialogue)
• compare and analyze digital resources for ease of use, applicability to classroom instruction, and as a means to enhance meaning making for teachers and students

Together we will extract meaning from this digital media item. Try ONE of these video annotation tools. 
Using VideoNot.es, we can capture the details of this video, review them, revisit specific parts and generally 'pick it apart' in order to make sense of the ideas and elements of digital literacy. As you participate in this activity, make connections to ideas, text, experiences that echo or mirror those presented by Doug Belshaw in this video.
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Make meaning by bringing these connections together in a Vialogue for this same video. Access the SHARED VIALOGUE SPACE and insert ONE comment at any point in the video stream.

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Meme generated with IMGR

Sketchnote by Sylvia Duckworth

Sketchnote by Sylvia Duckworth

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Readings

• ​Hinrichsen & Coombs Section on Meaning Making and Figure 2
• Video - Essential Elements of Digital Literacies by Doug Belshaw
• Video - Making Meaning​

• VideoNot.es for D. Belshaw video
• Vialogue for D. Belshaw video

Image of VideoNot.es screen

Activities

Create a meme, Thinglink poster or an infographic about making meaning of digital texts.

• Meme Generator IMGflip - since you do not need to sign up or have an account to create, can upload an image, and can keep your image private by downloading it when complete
• create an infographic style document showing the statement you took from the video. Include a graphic, icon, text and shapes when using Canva, a free graphic design tool.
  

Share a screen capture or link of your creation. Post these in the D2L discussion forums, the "Sharing is Caring" forum or in the GENERAL channel in Slack.

Actions

• Post in D2L discussion forum

​How do you make sense or engage meaningfully with digital 'texts' when they are multi-modal and colloborative?

Where have you created interactive digital resources or where do you hope to create interactivities for your students?

​When would  creating interactive texts help (or impede) your audience (students, parents, colleagues) to make sense of the message?

• Respond to two classmate's posts
• Describe the collaborative spaces in VideoNot.es OR Vialogue to explore the critical digital literacies used to make meaning.

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Thing Link Example

Steps to Creating an Infographic

From Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything