Multimodal Classroom Practices & Zines:)

     With all of my experiences within the classroom, I was very surprised that I had not heard the term zines. In the reading entitled "Zines in the Classroom: Reading Culture," I found the relation to social aspects of literacy to zines were super interesting and furthered my understanding of the benefits of having your students interact with zines in the classroom super amazing. I personally cannot think of a ton of instances in my K-12 experience that have me analyze any sort of writing that weren't academic or mainstream articles. 

    One experience that I do have with a zine is something that my mom actually has been reading. She has been wanting to blog for the longest time to help other single mothers out of their rough spots and she has even been responding to the zine in her blog. As a therapist, she wanted to provide other single mothers a creative format to look at and go to. Tapping into the zine that she has been following has been truly inspiring for me to watch. 

    I personally really liked the idea of using zines such as these to compare to mainstream media. Blogging is something that I would also love to include in my classroom. As I have gone through this semester I have really appreciated getting to sit down every week and write in this space. 

    One of the multimodel projects that really caught my eye was the infographic. I think being able to be active in the political climate is super empowering especially at a young age when you cannot voice your opinion through way of voting. When I was in highschool, I think I became very aware of many of our nations/worlds issues through infographics shared online. 

    Below, I have shared an infographic made by everydayhealth that I really connected with. I have type one diabetes and actually became aware of the idea of insulin rationing when I was in highschool through an infographic shared in highschool. This can connect to "Digital Storytelling in a Place-Based Composition Course" by Chrisholm and Trent when they touch on how these projects can really reinvent curricula and adding it into their syllabi to encourage creative enagagement. This really inspires me as an educator to even have students expand on themes of texts through these sorts of infographics. 

    The idea of creating music videos in my classroom really made me curious. I have made a Hamilton parody or two for a history class. I remember it making me engaged in what I was reading and learning and also having me learn how to use technology that I still carry with me to this day.