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Want to add some zest to your persuasive writing? Use ThingLink to incorporate media elements, including video, still images, and music. Wondering about the process? Visit http://inspirepassion.edublogs.org/2015/07/05/clmooc-2015-make-2/
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For this Make Cycle, we invite you to consider how the media we compose within (like print, sound, still and moving image, or objects) influence how we communicate and interpret. In this Make Cycle, we will mediate and re-mediate and reflect on how the affordances of different media impact our choices, processes, and meanings. Ryan moved from image to words in this remediation: Remediation – as we’ll be thinking about it here – is unrelated to another use of the term in education: we are not talking about “remediating kids” as in “remedy”-ing them. Here, the focus is on media,… Read more »
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“Thinglink” is a useful free application for creating interactive stories. It allows the user to visualize a “suite” of related ideas that also come together to represent a unified concept. When you use Thinglink, you choose one visual representation, and then identify “nodes” on that image in order to hyperlink those nodes to other media. I used this app for Make Cycle #1 (2014) in order to create a more conceptual “How to….”. I have been thinking about creativity a lot lately – how to nurture it, and how to live by it. Thinglink was a perfect way to represent… Read more »