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Mid-winter Conference, February 23-25, 2007
Nashville, Tennessee

Roundtables

Roundtable A: Saturday,  9:25 -10:00 a.m.
 

Presenter(s) Title
Stavroula Kontovourki, Marjorie Siegel Exploring Literacy as Embodied, Multimodal Performance in an Urban Literacy Classroom
Karen Wohlwend Play and Design as Embodied and Visual Literacies: A Mediated Discourse Analysis
Rebecca Rogers, Melissa Mosley A Critical Multimodal Analysis of Racial Literacy in Teacher Education
Linda Wedwick The Discourse of Embodiment: The Literary Treatment of Fatness in Adolescent Literature
Sheila Benson “I don’t know if that’d be English or not”: Troubled—and Troubling—Bodies in a Multimodal Language Arts Classroom
Donna Sayers Adomat An Expanded Definition of Literary Understanding through Drama for Young, Struggling Readers
Lydia Brauer What Counts as Illiteracy? The Problematic Call for Media Education
Lara J. Handsfield Decoding Communicative Structures in a Classroom Literacy Lesson: A Rhizoanalysis
Brent Hasty, Mary Lee Webeck, Tina Curran Mediating Practices in Holocaust Education: Possibilities and Impossibilities of Movement, Representation and Pedagogy
Jessica Zacher “That’s Not ‘the Same,’ That’s ‘Different’”: Thinking Maps, Reading Comprehension, and the Denial of Multimodality in Open Court Classrooms

Roundtable B: Saturday, 10:30 - 11:05 a.m.
 

Presenter(s) Title
Lalitha Vasudevan, Stavroula Kontovourki Researching Literacies as Embodied, Multimodal Performances
Carolyn Colvin, Kristin Pins Multimodal Frames for Immigrant Adult Students:  Remaking their Representations of Literacy and Life
Jason Lovvorn Discursive Bodies, Digital Stories, and Rhetorical Challenges.
Amy Wilson Grass Dancing, Identity, and Literacy: A Case Study of One Navajo and Piute Middle School Student
Erica Rosenfeld Halverson, Damiana Gibbons, Rebecca Lowenhaupt Exploring Filmmaking as a New Media Literacy Practice Through a Meta-Analysis of Student-Produced, Autobiographical Films
Teri Holbrook Committing Literacy Treason: A Call for Researchers to Rise Up as Ability Traitors
Jennifer Teitle Anime, Adolescence, and Goth Manga: A Case from the Edge
Candance Doerr Shape-Shifting in the Blogosphere: A Case Study of First-year College Students’ Use of Weblogs
Michael Sherry Embodying Practice: Role-playing in Teacher Preparation
Stephanie Schmier “Because of the Way I Dress”: A Poststructural Reading of One Adolescent Girl’s Literacy Performances Across Social Networking and Classroom Spaces

Roundtable C: Saturday, 1:45 - 2:20 p.m.
 

Presenter(s) Title
Mira-Lisa Katz Languages and Literacies of the Body: Exploring Young Women’s Embodied Cognition and Identity Development Through Dance
Ingrid Graves “It Really Doesn't Matter What My Answer Is.”: Positioning of Students in Small Group Settings
Gloria Jacobs From Margin to Center: A Spatial Autoethnography of Differential Readings of Race and Social Class across School Settings
Mary B. McVee, Nancy M. Bailey, Lynn E. Shanahan A Poem Is a Poem Is a Poem?  The Art of Multimodal Digital Poetry Interpretation
Jessica Dockter Entering into the Dialogic Tension: A Beginning Exploration of White Students Who Engage with Race
Thomas P. Crumpler A Drama of Multiliteracies: Performing and Embodying Meaning in a Middle School Literature Classroom
Annie Grugel Breaking Ground: Using Digital Modalities as a Practice of Resisting Culturally Constructed Knowledges of Self and Other
Patrick Smith Universal Fine Products, S.A. de C.V.: Transnational Literacies and the Co-marketization of English and Technology in Small Town Mexico
Shannon M. Stanton Embodied Texts and Literacy Practices of an Urban Church Youth Group
Stergios Botzakis Adult Comic Book Readers: Images, Texts, and Bodies

Roundtable D: Saturday, 2:30 - 3:05 p.m.
 

Presenter(s) Title
Mark Dressman Apostate among Believers:  A Confessional Tale around/within/between/for/against Religion, Technology, and Teacher Education
Jory Brass What Counts as Literacy?  A Latino Student Bridging Worlds Through iMovie Composing
Hyun-ju Kim and Dr. Shuaib Mecham The Semiotic Roles of Korean Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC): Korean Youth Film-Makers in the US
Jean Ketter, Julia Sundermann, Cori McKenzie Narrating New Teacher Identities in the Struggle for Equity
Kelly K. Wissman Multimodal Literacy Practices as Embodied Agency
Korina Jocson Cross Modal Literacies in Youth Arts and Youth Media
Daryl Parks, Amanda Haertling Thein Understanding multicultural literature as a location for the evocation of embodied discourses of race, class, and gender
Kerryn Dixon “Open them, shut them. Give a little clap and close them in your lap”: the impact of spatial organisation in the construction of the embodied literate subject
Christa B. Teston Embodied Modalities in Collaborative Decision Making: A Tumor Board Study
Alex Schott and Michael Ayers Sites of Transgression in the Multimodal Classroom

Roundtable E: Saturday, 3:30-4:05 p.m.
 

Presenter(s) Title
William Kist New Literacies and New Teachers: A Longitudinal Study
Mia Perry The Literacies of Performance: Theatre as a Site of Embodied and Critical Pedagogy
Michelle Zoss Seeking Relationships to Negotiate an Integrated Visual Arts/Language Arts Curriculum: A Case Study
Elizabeth A. Baker Workplace Literacies, Peer Literacies, and Elementary Classroom Web Sites: A Comparison of New Literacies
Patricia Enciso Page, Poster and Screen: Latina Youth Transforming School Space
Heather Sheridan Thomas Video Game Strategies: A Case Study
Tiffany DeJaynes Embodied, Multimodal Literacies & Incarcerated Youth:  An Ethnographic Study of an Oral Storytelling Project
Mary Thompson, Eunim Bok Doing multimodalities: Looking at affordances and limitations for teachers
Karen Spector “Project Decoy”: The Possibilities of a Provocateur Identity
Alanna Rochelle Dail, Priscilla G. Wilson, Stacy Hughey Surman The Power of Photography: How Photos Capture Literacy Practice
Jaime L. Dice, Mariana Souto-Manning What Counts as Literacy?: A Bicultural Child Negotiates Home Literacy Practices

Roundtable F: Sunday, 9:25-10:00 a.m.
 

Presenter(s) Title
Lisa Patel Stevens Corporeality in Adolescent Literacy: A Poststructural Analysis
Jill M. Hermann-Wilmarth, Teri Holbrook, Mariana Souto-Manning Mum is the Word: Motherhood as an Embodied Literacy in Academia
Dana J. Wilber (Cammack) “Facebooking My Space”: Understanding Multiple Roles and Literacies in Social Networking Sites
Dr. sj Miller and Dr. Linda Norris Teacher as Embodied “loaded matrix”: Negotiating space and time between university and secondary English classrooms
Jason Ranker Dialogues Between Text and Image: A Case Study of the Influence of Video Production on Student Inquiry Processes
Elizabeth Marshall Consuming girlhood: Discourses of Femininity in the American Girls® Collection
Althea Scott Nixon Using Multimodal Literacies of Digital Storytelling to Understand Our Social Worlds
Christina Haas Writing as Embodied Practice: The Case of the Hand
Shira May Peterson Is This Solid? The Role of Visual, Auditory, and Haptic Cues in Constructing an Academic Discourse Genre in Preschool Science Lessons
Sharon Tettegah Narratives, Virtual Environments and Identity Semiotics: An Exploration of Pre-service Teacher’s Cognitions Through Animation

Roundtable G: Sunday, 10:20 - 10:55 a.m.
 

Presenter(s) Title
Cathy Compton-Lily Silences of Method: Counting the Uncounted
Sharon Miller Keller Literacy Representation Reconceptualized: The Shadowbox Stories and the Irish Identity Stories
Kathleen C. West, Rachel L. Tholen Weblogs and Literary Response: Socially Situated Identities and Hybrid Social Languages on English Class Blogs
Amy Wilson, Megan Adams Mixed Messages in Adolescent Novels: The Relationship between Gender, Images, and Words in Bestselling YA Books
Melissa Mosley Layering Image, Narrative Text, and Reflection: A Portrait of Developing Teacher Identity
Wen-chiang Rita Chen Presenting the Self and Negotiating Gender Identity Through Graphics and Narratives: Analyzing Young Children’s Drawings and expressions
J. Patrick Tiedemann Critical Theory and Literacy Education: The Possibilities of Dialectical Critique
Theresa Rogers, Kari Winters Youth Media as Critical Social Practice: A Play of Genres, Positions, and Identities in One Alternative Secondary Literacy Program
David Bruce New Wine in Old Wineskins: Reconceptualizing Video as Composition
Jennifer Wooten, Jaime L. Dice, Mariana Souto-Manning, Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor “This is Something that the Classes Don’t Teach”: Using Theater of the Oppressed as a Tool to Support Teachers

 


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