• The Blogging Hobbit

    Author(s):
    Shannon Sauro, Björn Sundmark
    Editor(s):
    Ana Oskoz
    Date:
    2020
    Item Type:
    Course Material or learning objects
    Tag(s):
    DPiH, DPiH Language Learning, DPih Course Material or learning objects, Practice, Getting started, Reflection, Web site, Multimodal, Blogging, Digital pedagogy, Composition, Collaboration
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/jxeh-2792
    Abstract:
    Curatorial note from Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Sauro and Sundmark incorporated the practice of online fandom into the classroom to help learners enhance their understanding of literary texts through the development of critical literary analyses and blog-based collaborative writing (“Report”). For this project, learners were divided into groups and focused on underdeveloped moments from The Hobbit. By compiling visual materials to support their plots, learners (re)produced a fictional space in which the story was set, allowing the writer-reader to associate the event with a specific time and place. Whether working on a blog, a fan-fiction Web site such as Archive of Our Own, or using another social media tool, the learners, who each assumed the role of one of the characters, used their characters’ voices to collaboratively construct their stories (ultimately uploaded to the class Web site). Requiring learners to employ visual and textual modes along with collaborative writing using social media enhances their multiliteracy competencies.
    Notes:
    This deposit is part of Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities. Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities is a peer-reviewed, open-access publication edited by Rebecca Frost Davis, Matthew K. Gold, Katherine D. Harris, and Jentery Sayers, and published by the Modern Language Association. https://digitalpedagogy.hcommons.org/.
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    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    3 years ago
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial

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