Post-Yancey Remix Post (Un-fun Title)

Warning, warning: this post has too many parentheses. (Sorry I’m not sorry.)

Hello (again)!

Thanks for your participation today. (If you participated.) Thanks for showing up, too. (That was sincere.)

If I could change one thing about my presentation, it would have been during week two. Or three.

If I could change two things about my presentation, I would next try to make a more engaging lead-in question so our dead minds wouldn’t of had to work so hard. Special props to Hillery for leaping in the convo.

If I could change three things about my presentation, I would next have introduced remix a little bit more. I would have clearly defined it (this is optimistic, since I fully didn’t understand the concept until we discussed it). And then I would have defined multimodal composition. I’m guessing more of us assign something—even if just a homework assignment or presentations—which are multimodal in some form. Or, most likely, you teach multimodally. (I think you can use multimodal in that way.)

Then, when I asked the question about if/how remix complicates multimodal assignments, we would have had a clearer idea of what I meant.

I would have shown this video too, asking “What are the potential problems instructors and students face when assigning or making projects like this?” (Imagine they produce Emmy winning videos.) 

And then I would have proposed that we discuss how music remix is different from a textual remix.

But I wouldn’t change anything else about my presentation because of selfish reasons. You all helped me understand remix better—and I’m pretty sure it was supposed to be the other way around—and brought your own questions, confusions, and concerns about the article that allowed us to talk for an hour about it.

Thanks for hanging in there during a week 10 reading. Is there anything you want to ask or talk about after today’s class? (By talk, I mean type via blog. But you can call me, maybe if you want to talk-talk.)