4. Semiotic Systems
auditory (for example, music, sound effects, silence)
gestural (for example, facial expression, body
language)
linguistic (for example, vocabulary, grammar)
spatial (for example, environmental and architectural
spaces)
visual (for example, still and moving images, page and
screen layouts).
5. Texts
Dove: http://www.dove.ca/en/Social-Mission/
Short film: Validation (search on Youtube) or
http://bit.ly/validationmovie
Interactive Telltale Heart: http://bit.ly/knowingpoe
Selection from: Spiegelman, Art. Maus. 1st ed. 1-2.
Penguin Books, 1993.
6. Questions to discuss:
Identify the codes and conventions used to convey
meaning
Did your text use more than one semiotic system?
How did that affect your reading and viewing?
Were you more proficient with some systems than with
others? Which ones? Why?
7. Readings
Brown, J. (2010). The case for comics in the classroom.
TEDxOntarioEd Event (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpCiH_aBlLQ
13. Lesson Redesign
Choose a lesson from your first practicum placement
(doesn’t matter if it wasn’t English) and revise and
redesign it using a text selection or literacy practice
that was not integrated in the original form.
Share this redesign on your blog. Be sure to credit
sources/original creators.
Due date: (We will decide on this as a class today)
14. For Next Week
Comment on two or three of your classmates’ blog
posts. Comments should attempt to “extend the
conversation” in some way. Ask a question, share a
suggestion, etc. Be constructive and polite.
Blog! Topics? Comics in the classroom? Multimodal
texts: lesson possibilities? How did your literacy
experiences as a student inform your current teaching
philosophy?
15. For Next Week
Lee, R. ECOO 2010 Pecha Kucha by Royan Lee (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqf5sEN5vzM
Notas do Editor
A reader may need to process several of these codes, acting together and interacting with others, to construct meaning. If you look at our current English curriculum documents in Ontario, these semiotic systems are equally distributed.
As you watch, try to make a connection. How does Jesse’s experience as a student compare to yours. Implications for teaching/learning?
Response to Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century (Jenkins et al., 2006) The New Media Literacies constitute the core cultural competencies and social skills that young people need in our new media landscape. We call them “literacies,” but they change the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to one of community involvement. They build on the foundation of traditional literacy, research skills, technical skills, and critical analysis skills taught in the classroom. Play, Performance, Simulation, Appropriation, Multitasking, Distributed Cognition, Collective Intelligence, Judgement, Transmedia Navigation, networking, Negotiation, Visualization
“ Comics are a visual medium but they try to embrace all the senses within it” There are a number of different semiotic systems involved in comics, but abstracted. Vision is called upon to represent sound. The balance between the visible and the invisible (What happens in the gutter) Visual representation of time in comics. We see this in ancient forms such as the Bayeux Tapestry.