– First do a Draft
Instructions:
For this assignment, you are taking your original “Where I’m From” poem and remediating it into a Popplet. Take 10 key moments/lines/phrases (no more, no less; just 10 Popplet windows–not counting your title Popplet) from the poem and present them in Popplet form–use drawings, pictures, or other features, along with words (if you want) to enhance your poem. Keep our readings/discussions in mind as you choose how to represent yourself this time around. Also keep in mind changes you make/decisions you make along the way: this will help with the reflective portions of this assignment to follow.
After you draft your Popplet, if you like, take a shot at making a screencast. You can perform on the screencast if you like–like I tried to do 🙁 –or just let your voice and Popplet speak for itself. You might even figure out some better way to present your Popplet; that’d be cool too. (The Popplet is the only constraint here. If you have a good idea as to how to best present it, go for it!) The Popplet tutorial is below. If you want to use the screencast, you’ll want your Popplet on your screen when you go to Screencast-o-matic (https://screencast-o-matic.com/account#inviteLinks to an external site.). In Screencast-o-matic, there’s a box at the bottom left that allows me to choose screen or camera or both. I picked both–that’s why you can see me reading. I don’t think I did a very good job at this point, but the exercise helped me think quite a bit about the switch in genres, the implications of bringing multiple modalities into play, and the ways ideas of diversity shaped my selection process. Maybe we’ll all get better ideas as to how to make our projects look once we get a look at what a few other class members have done. You’ll see below the eCampus added a closed caption version of my screencast–any product you produce that involves audio should also include close captioning.
Another way to present your Popplet would be to include the full text of your “Where I Am From Poem”—this is a way to ensure that your product is accessible to a broad audience.
Also, to help anyone with visual disabilities, you could in the comment column offer a very brief description of each slide (e.g. slide 1: a man and a woman holding a baby; slide 4: a forest scene; slide 9: a cartoon of a vulture with a knife.)
I’ve also received these instructions from professor on how you might include closed captioning yourself. You can try the below suggestions–Kit has also invited anyone to contact her for more personalized instruction:
“At the moment, unfortunately, we do not have anything in Canvas that can add closed captions to student video responses natively (or easily). If students want to add their own closed captions, they can download their videos from Files – Uploaded Media – and then add them to their private YouTube channels. YouTube can auto-caption and then students can edit the auto-captions for accuracy. This way is the quickest, easiest and least expensive (it’s free!). Students could also use Amara.org to do closed captions (also free), but would still need to take the video recording out of Canvas and put it in YouTube. ScreenPal will let students record and has capability to do closed captions, but you have to pay to upgrade their subscription.
We are actively exploring ways of making this easier and bringing closed captioning natively into Canvas, but we are probably a year or two off from anything happening.
ChatGPT can create transcripts for videos, but it is not terribly accurate (requires editing) and you would need to write timing information to turn the transcript into a SRT closed caption file. I haven’t been able to successfully do that myself yet, so I can’t endorse it personally, but it is possible.”
Post your draft by the end of the due date listed on the calendar and respond to the other writers to which you’ve been assigned by the end of the next school day. Canvas will automatically assign you papers to review. You can learn about that Canvas function by watching this Feedback Overview (Links to an external site.).
Please refer to this document for how to set up an account and use Popplet; the document also informs you how to share your Popplet. Tutorial document on using Popplet
And here’s my Popplet: WhereIAmFrom.mp4
– Second do the Reflection for same thing
Instructions:
By the end of the due date listed on our calendar, submit a 1- to 2-page reflection on the genre switch from poem to Popplet: What was gained and what was lost in the change? Be as specific as you can–maybe other students’ comments/drafts can help you think about the significance of the genre change, maybe the “At First Glance” article, maybe other readings/talks we’ve had about diversity, maybe guess what you might have here regarding writing for global audiences? You might also talk about changes/possibilities for your Popplet should you choose to revise it for the Final Portfolio. (This revision would include the Popplet itself and this reflection.)
The readings and discussions on diversity, not to mention the work on the “Where I Am from Poem” and its remediation, have in past semesters kicked up interesting questions for me going into this reflection:
THOUGHTS ON ORGANIZATION?
First, I became aware of the constraint of the Popplet right away. I looked for a better way to present it—I’ve since learned there’s a way to foreground different pics at different times, which I’ll try to do when I revise. I’m also wondering if there might be a better way of arranging the pics on the page. I’m not happy with the ways mine are arranged.
PRIVATE VS. PUBLIC IMAGERY?
Given that I had quite a few references in my poem, I had to be selective in terms of how I would image various scenes in my Popplet. Following the readings, I noticed that I tried to gravitate toward lines in my “Where I Am From” poem that might be reflective of broader contexts—the foods that represent my ethnicities, images that might call out a working-class background. I did keep some personal imagery—like the tree (which we all called the “curly tree”) and the spiked fence, which I feel are unique to my background, but l also looked for images that might be more relatable as well to a broader audience—Dylan and the beat poets, the movie Rocky. In reference to Shen’s essay, I started thinking differently about the “I” in the poem’s title and thinking more about the “Where,” and I think my choices started to reflect this. I think the draft of what I have now involves more an interplay between personal stuff and the cultural/social. What do you see going on in your Popplet draft?
CULTURAL CATEGORIES?
As you’re reflecting on the form and content of your own remediation, you might want to keep in mind too the broader cultural categories at work in your poems and, perhaps, the values that emerge from those parts of yourself. In past classes, I recall seeing quite a few references to religion in the poems, for instance, so this would be something to remark on if this is the case with your project. In a number of poems/Popplets, I don’t recall seeing many references to race/ethnicity. The absence of such might be significant. Could it be a mark of privilege to not think of/consciously present oneself in terms of race/ethnicity? (I’m thinking now that members of a global audience will likely see the whiteness is the images I present and musicians/writers I mention. What cultural markers are viewers likely to see/hear regarding your Popplet poem?) This question could help us anticipate issues in modules to come. If you decide to revise this project for your Final Portfolio, you’ll want to think about ways future readings can help you reflect upon what you did and did not do in regard to global audiences in this early project.
TRANSLATES BETWEEN CULTURES?
Also looking down the road, I’ve started thinking about ways my choice of photos might (or might not) translate across regions/cultures as well. Hard to tell at this point, but I wonder how these images might play out in a global context.
I’m looking forward to hearing the stories behind your Popplet and what meanings you’ve made of those experiences.
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Discipline: Global Wrting
