Thursday, March 3, 2011

Research: Teaching Video Composition


Question: What effect will constructing video compositions have on both students and teachers?

Miller, S. M. (2010). Reframing multimodal composing for student learning: Lessons on purpose
from the Buffalo DV project. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 10(2).
Retrieved July 10, 2010 from http://www.citejournal.org/vol10/iss2/languagearts/article3.cfm

Answer: Teachers and students worked together to define purposes and in the process of constructing videos, changed teachers’ practices and students’ learning.

Comment: When students and teachers learn together, it is a powerful tool for change in teaching and student learning. RayS.

“Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English.” Richard Beach et al. Research in the Teaching of English (November 2010), Internet. Note: The editors of RTE said that so much research was available they did not want to burden the paper edition of the journal with it, so they relegated their annotated reports on research to the Internet.

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