The Multimedia Memoir: Leveraging Multimodality to Facilitate the Teaching of Narrative Writing for Preservice Teachers

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Author(s): Donna E. Werderich (Northern Illinois University, USA)and Michael Manderino (Northern Illinois University, USA)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 15
Source title: Exploring Multimodal Composition and Digital Writing
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Richard E. Ferdig (Research Center for Educational Technology - Kent State University, USA)and Kristine E. Pytash (Kent State University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4345-1.ch019

Keywords: Digital Communications / Information Science Reference / Media & Communications / Multimedia Technology

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In this case study, two teacher educators in literacy education examine preservice teachers’ (N = 20) Multimedia Memoirs, focusing specifically on their learning of multimodal writing processes during a language arts methods course. Data analyzed for this study includes a set of Multimedia Memoirs and written reflections. The researchers find that preservice teachers navigate between writing their memoirs traditionally and digitally by drawing on their knowledge and experiences with the writing process and with technology integration. Multimedia Memoirs and reflections demonstrate that preservice teachers’ knowledge about the writing process and the use of multimodality increases for their own writing and their future writing pedagogy. Implications for teacher education programs include a need to provide scaffolded digital writing instruction using a variety of genres.

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