NCoW Campaign Videos
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“Who Is a Writer? What Writers Tell Us” -- NCoW inaugural video created by Darsie Bowden and Pete Vandenberg of DePaul University. This video offers an in depth look at what it means to be a writer today, culled from interviews with writers across the country. Concludes that everyone is a writer.
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“Who Said ‘Johnny Can’t Write’?” -- Video complement to Stephanie Roach’s (University of Michigan-Flint) presentation by the same name, generated as a cornerstone of the first NCoW campaign that launched July 2009. Video developed by Luca Morazzano (Texas A&M-Commerce and the Converging Literacies Center), remixed from footage at archive.org.
Videos About High School Writers
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‘What They Bring With Them to College” -- Video documentary by Dominic DelliCarpini (York College of Pennsylvania) offering interviews with high school students at schools in the Philadelphia area (one rural, one urban, and one in transition) about their expectations for college writing and their experiences with writing thus far.
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“Why Do You Write?” -- Video by Jennifer Evans (English Teacher, Fredericksburg Academy in Fredericksburg, Virginia [Opens in new browser window].
Videos About Writing (General)
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“I Hate Writing”— video about negative attitudes toward writing, created by Sylwester Zabielski (MA Student, in English, Texas A&M-Commerce). The I HATE WRITING project was inspired by a blog (http://ihatewriting.net/) that discusses different issues connected with negative attitudes towards writing. Also inspired by Bowden and Vandenberg’s video Who is a Writer? What Writers Tell Us, especially those portions of the video in which writers spoke about when they actually hate writing. The author of this short decided to feature the I-HATE- WRITING phenomenon because those who struggle with writing due to their extreme dislike for it are often omitted in academic multimedia projects. In the past, scholars tended to deliberate on writing as a passion, a cognitive skill coming from within, or as a positive aspect of life in academia. Few have discussed the other side of the problem. Therefore, I HATE WRITING incorporates people from different environments – English teachers, students, attorneys, ESL speakers, and professors studying and interacting with those the filmmaker terms I-HATE-WRITERS, to convey the real message, revealing not only the problem but also possible solutions proposed by its participants. The remix of iconic music, strong images from a British CCTV camera (the office clerk losing his mind at the beginning of the movie) and convincing academic arguments, was used to find the lingua franca of today’s multimodal generation. Final Cut Express, iMovie, Picasa, Xtranormal Text to Movie, and Audacity combine video and animation with slides, borrowed (with permission) from the South Central Writing Center Conference presentation of T.R. Johnson, Associate Professor of English at Tulane University; additional footage was obtained at the 2009 San Francisco CCCC. [Opens in new browser window.]
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“The Found Project”—short video documenting an experiment with writing, asking specifically what happens when we provide a public space for writing and ask passers-by to contribute. Video by JP Sloop, PhD Student in the Department of Literature and Languages at Texas A&M-Commerce). Drawing inspiration from Pete Vandenberg and Darsie Bowden’s video Who is a Writer? and Foundmagazine.com, I created the “Found” project. The project is based on the premise that we are all writers and that one of the inhibitors for people seeing themselves as writers is the lack of space in which to present their writing. Using a portion of the bulletin boards on each floor of the Hall of Languages on the Texas A&M-Commerce campus, the filmmaker provided a space for writers to display their work. JP kept a photo journal documenting the success of the project and used the photos to create a video and a blog. JP turned the footage into a short video looking at who and what is being written about when a space is provided. [Opens in new browser window.]
Videos about First-Year Writing and Writers
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Assessing Writing: "’Sh*t-plus,’ ‘AWK,’ ‘Frag,’ and ‘Huh?’: An Empirical Look at a Writing Program's Commenting Practices”—a video by graduate students and their professor (Asao B. Inoue, California State University-Fresno) sharing their research on commenting practices in a first-year writing program, studying undergraduate students and their responses to instructor comments. (graduate students involved in the creation of this video are Jocelyn Scott, Maryann Jamali, Megan McKnight, Meredith Bulinski, Andy Dominguez, Sharla Seidel, Holly Riding)
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Celebrating Writing: “Worth Celebrating”—video by Shannon Carter (Texas A&M-Commerce), drawing inspiration from Steve Krause’s video “Celebration of Student Writing” and likewise documenting a campus-wide celebration of first-year writing students. This video commemorates the Celebration of Student Writing (CSW) at Texas A&M University-Commerce and describes the curriculum from which these student projects emerged. The CSW celebrates the original research of first-year college students with a focus on culminating project for the first-year composition sequence. It serves as an argument that student research at any level should be celebrated alongside the promotion of the multiple literacies found throughout the process. Contributes to the national conversation on writing by sharing the original research of first-year composition students studying literacy as it manifests itself in a variety of contexts. Suggests that everyone is a writer and literacy is everywhere.
Videos about Basic Writing
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“What’s So Basic About Writing, Anyway?”—video created by J’Non Whitlark, Shannon Carter, and Joanna Thrift (of the Department of Literature and Languages and Gee Library at Texas A&M-Commerce) from interview footage collected at the 2009 Conference on Basic Writing in San Francisco, California (March 2009). Provides an in-depth look at what basic writing instructors and programs via interviews with basic writing professionals as writers. Concludes that writing is hard, messy, and often endlessly disorienting. Argues that basic writing teachers have much to teach basic writing students and, in fact, all writers, by remembering the numerous examples we have from our own writing lives that teach us that writing is rarely “basic” and that we all writers struggle at some point. Writing is fun; writing is far from fun. Writing is hard; writing is easy. Writing is everywhere; writing is.
Videos about Individual Writers
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“Standardized”—video by Shannon Carter (Texas A&M-Commerce) about her brother Eric Carter (b. 1973), whose experiences with traditional literacy education and associated technologies (pen/paper) were altogether unsatisfying. Video essay also describes his movement towards technological literacies. The video then progresses into a discussion of literacies in our daily lives, including video games, music, and writing in/for digital environments. Contributes to the national conversation on writing by sharing one man’s literacy narrative. Video is incomplete and in process. Access: http://www.ncow.org/browse/video/carter_standardized.html
Video Invitations to Writers
Audience: teachers, literacy workers, community members
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Calling All Writers”—developed by Shannon Carter, November 2008, as a promotional piece; serving as an introduction to the National Conversation on Writing and offering viewers information about how and why to submit stories and artifacts about writers and writing. [link to video]. Debuted at the 2008 meeting of the National Council for Teachers of English (San Antonio, Texas) and located at the NCoW homepage from February 2009 until the newest incarnation of the NCoW site launched in July 2009.
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“Everyone’s a Writer”—revision of above video by Luca Morazzano, a PhD student in A&M-Commerce’s Department of Literature and Languages and GA for the Converging Literacies Center (CLiC). Luca took the script and media Carter generated and collected for “Calling All Writers” and edited the original video down from more than seven minutes to just over three minutes. Different audio choices and much tighter editing made for a punchier, slicker invitation to potential NCoW contributors. “Everyone’s a Writer” appears on the homepage of the new NCoW site, beginning July 2009.
Audiences: writing teachers
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“Calling All Writing Teachers”--developed by Shannon Carter, July 2009, as an introduction to the 2009 manifestation of the National Conversation on Writing. Given the exciting ways in which the NCoW project has grown since its earliest stages in 2007, it seemed important to introduce viewers to NCoW’s current form and something of the trajectory it took to become what it is today (2009). Introduction to the National Conversation on Writing (NCoW), including its two key functions: browse and contribute. Begins with a tour of some of the items contained in the NCoW archives, moves on to a brief history of NCoW, then leads to a request for contributions. Coupled with the various support items found at ncow.org (consent forms, submission forms, video call for submissions, etc), "Calling All Writing Teachers" offers viewers what they need to get involved with the National Conversation on Writing. Also available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPPMW0omqIw
Additional Video About Writing and Writers
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Additional video on topics ranging from rural literacies, pet care, and video games can be found other “Spotlight On” sections or by browsing the official NCoW collection via the search term “video” (see “Browse” button above).
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See video produced by undergraduates by visiting the York College of Pennsylvania at the Spotlight On section of NCoW.
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