Students lose track of time as they spend hours navigating the web for material to create their stories and feel a sense of belonging through encouragement by their peers to post their stories on Facebook, illustrate them on Flickr, and share them with friends and the public at large through the multiple resources available on the web. This participation in new media environments is a way to be creative and innovative, but it is also new opportunities for our students to acquire and synthesize information in a meaningful way. Students today often remix original texts based on their own interests in order to create a new work that encapsulates their ideas and concerns about the issues that matter most to them.

1. the gap between
Life and Art
Remix Culture for Learning
Erin Reilly
Research Director
Project New Media Literacies
USC Annenberg School for Communication
ebreilly @twitter
www.newmedialiteracies.org
Retroactive I - Robert Rauschenberg

2. One in four online teens remix
content they find online—like songs,
text, or images—and remix them into
their own artistic creations

3. Remix in Music
Audio Recording
Software
Reason
ProTools
Logic
Fruity Loops
mashups
http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/newmedialiteracies:1000/videos/505-mashups-amp-remixes

4. Remix in Music
remix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ltAGuuru7Q

5. DJ Culture
http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/newmedialiteracies:1000/videos/369-what-is-a-dj

6. Editing Software
iMovie for Mac
Windows Moviemaker for PC
http://jaycut.com
no software needed
Remix in Video
Political
Remix
Machinima
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK54WRu0jW4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J_FkP9OVE4
Recut
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUk7hb5HdE0

7. Fan Vidding
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNRjzUB7Afo

8. the participation gap
≠

9. Shifting Landscape

10. projectNMLconnectcommunicatecreatecollaborate
collective intelligence
networking
negotiation
judgment
play
performance
simulation
multitasking
distributed cognition
transmedia navigation
appropriation

11. http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/newmedialiteracies:1058/videos/1214-the-new-media-literacies

12. projectNMLconnectcommunicatecreatecollaborate
appropriation
- the ability to meaningfully sample
and remix media content

13. The creator must consider
how the original source is
related to a new context.
To develop a
remix...
http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-profile-jalen-video

14. Source: Living and Learning with New Media
Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project Nov 2008
USC and UC, Berkeley

16. Where do I get started?

17. www.newmedialiteracies.org/library/

18. CREATE ...a production of new creative forms of learning
http://www.newmedialiteracies.org/library/#/media/253
Expressing Characters Challenge

19. • Concept in context: Demonstrate the core concept, skill, or
idea at play in the world.
CREATE ...a production of new creative forms of learning

20. • How would Jay Gatsby speak?
• What if Jay Gatsby hadn’t taken the blame for Myrtle’s death, how would the others act?
• What would each of them write in 140 characters over a couple of days of storytelling,
especially if this story were of today’s American Dream instead of the 1920s?

21. http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/5354-6b-shawna-on-adaptation

22. Conservative in Content
Radical in Approach
Henry Jenkins, Expert Voices

23. What’s essential to the
original source?
What matters most
to you?
What can be transferred
to a different medium?

24. Reading a Remix
1. What constitutes the primary source material?
2. What is the media form of the remix?
3. What is the context of the remix?
4. What elements of the primary source material are being remixed?
5. Are the works of the same genre or different ones? How do you know?
6. What techniques are deployed in reworking the original material?
7. What is the intended purpose of the remix?
8. How does the remix build from, add to, or alter the cultural meaning of
the original work?
Activity in Teachers’ Strategy Guide: Reading in a Participatory Culture

25. • ccMixter (found at http://ccmixter.org)
• Total Recut (found at http://www.totalrecut.com/index.php)
• Political Remix Video (found at http://www.politicalremixvideo.com/)
• Organization of Transformative Works
(found at http://transformativeworks.org/projects/vidding-history)
• Project New Media Literacies (found at http://projectnml.ning.com)
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