accessing embodied delivery

accessing embodied deliverythrough multimodal

composing & teaching

Bre Garrett

Writing to me seems like walking down an endless train track. You know that your voyage will eventually end at a station, but the track seems to be stretching forever. Stepping from one cross bar to the next is a struggle, but it also gives a feeling of success and, in the end, it will get you to your destination.

Lana, student with disabilityEnglish 104, Writing Studio

What is embodied delivery?

What happens when we use embodied delivery as a heuristic to teach new media production?

How does embodied delivery, as a rhetorical concept, inform new media production and

writing pedagogy?

Presentation Frame: Guiding Questions

Contexts/Methods of Research

Teacher-research• Participant-Observation• Interviews with students• Case-Studies

Theoretical frame • Rhetorical Delivery• Writing Pedagogy• Embodiment Studies

(Feminist & Disability Studies)

Delivery

Embodiment

Pedagogy

Bodies and DeliveryWhat do I mean by embodied delivery? Body as Site and Means: Composer and Audience Inter-action

• Situated embodiment, situated knowledges (Donna Haraway)

• Body as complex and interactive composing material

• Body as an interface, a site of interaction and contact (Elizabeth Grosz)

• Bodies as topoi: means of negotiation between invention delivery

• Accessibility (interrogates normative constructions)

• Ethos and body as signifier

How can teachers re-embody writing, re-embody composing spaces? And, why: what difference does it make?

New Media Production = invention & delivery + composer & audience interaction negotiation among materials, means, and aims

Rhetorical Dwelling Place:Bodies as points of access at multiple locations Subjectin rhetorical situation Author Audience

Composing Spaces Technologies

Transfer to ContextsBeyond the Classroom

Invention

Materiality/Arrangement

EmbodiedDelivery

Reception

What do we gain from embodied delivery as a heuristic?

Author

Message Audience

Classical, Greco-Roman Delivery Contemporary, Digital Delivery

Multimodal, Embodied DeliveryClassical DeliveryEmbodiment

PhysicalityOral: voice/auralGesturesVisual displayPerformance Normative bodies:

gender, class, ability, ethnicity, education

Digital DeliveryEmbodiment

Virtual, prostheticVideo ProductionMotionGesturesAural/oralVisual displayAccess/Accommodation

opens participation

“differences as generative in the writing classroom”Bruggemann et al

Multimodal Video Productionin First-Year Composition

5-7 minutes multimodal video

Topic: develop a compelling inquiry question

The video answers the question (research through production)

Marketing plan that includes 3 locations for video distribution

• Pose an inquiry question that functions as a thesis

• Compose multimodal text for specific audiences, purposes, and contexts, including those beyond academic community

• Compose effectively combining modalities—visual, aural, print, digital—for public delivery

• Engage in critical reflection of your own composing

• Conduct research and work with multimodal forms of source representation

Project Learning Outcomes

• Prospectus

• Storyboard/outline

• Weekly blogging

• Mid- and post-project reflections on process

• Video marketing plan (delivery proposal)

• Reflective audience analysis

• Incorporate sources

• Transcripts/Narrations

• Peer-Response Feedback

• Editorial/Grammar

Scaffolding Alphabetic Components

Inquiry Ques tion:Can people wi th As perger’s Sy ndr ome s uc ceed like other people?

Res earc h c onducted:Three F2F In terviews

Director of Disability Resour cesPr ofes sor of Dev elopmental Ps y chologySc holastic Enhancement Program Tutor

Tex tual, sec ondary res earc h: Journals , Book s, Manuals , & Onl ine Sites

Case-Study: Nick’s Video Project

Nick Brincat’s video: http://youtu.be/gI7omIck5Fs

Nick’s BlogUnintentional Re-inscription of Norming

Public delivery:• Office of Disability Resources• Youtube, 3114 views• High School Guidance Counselor

“I am thinking about how my video will affect the audience and how they will respond to my video.” - Nick

Sally’s BlogIdentification Across Difference

I should have paid more attention to the race and ethnicity aspects of sororities…I wish it [video] was more diverse than it is. I end up excluding audiences when that was not my intention” –Sally

“Three places other than Youtube that I will circulate my video is on Facebook, Attached in emails to friends, and printed out on CDs for people without access to the internet to watch.”

Transfer to ContextsBeyond the Classroom

Invention

Materiality/Arrangement

EmbodiedDelivery

Reception

What do we gain from embodied delivery as a heuristic?

Author

Message Audience

▲ Embodied literacies differ for each writer

▲ Production as multimodal invention and delivery

▲ Delivery as an early-stage composing concern that consists of micro-processes – opportunities for reflection and intervention

▲ Including bodies, alongside technologies, as materials dimensions of composing

Embodied Delivery: New Media Production & Writing Studies

▲ Triangulation of outcomes, curricular design, and delivery▲ Assessment inclusive of student feedback▲ Mentoring teachers through collaborative research

▲ Studio Pedagogies: a space of doing through in-class collaboration, invention, and research.

Can we invent for a more accessible delivery—and as teachers be okay with “a rhetoric of difference”? (Kristin Lindgren “Bodies in Trouble”)

Embodied Delivery: Pedagogical Implications

Accessing Embodied Delivery

▲Designing accessibility for different bodies▲New media production as a space that opens access and bodily affordances – but not without direct intervention▲A critical discussion of unintentional norming and exclusion▲Reconsideration of identification across difference

▲A Pedagogy of Universal Design (Jay Dolmage, “Mapping Composition”)

How can we, as teachers, counter/challenge “institutional steep steps” (Dolmage) when teaching new media production?

And, how can we teach student-composers to foreground embodied delivery, casting the widest net possible for audience reception and participation?