In a much less developed way, this is what I had been trying to do with the Digital Storytelling class and what I've done in smaller pieces with the teacher ed cohorts: To encourage students to think about multiple literacies, to become more skilled at visual communication, to explore how verbal communication is deepened by incorporating images and sound.
I especially like this quote:
Writing is positioned as an integral part of the process of thinking, problem solving, and creating.When I read such things, I grow more impatient with how we're still teaching writing (when we teach it at all) as if our students were going to write only for an academic audience.
How would we begin conversations about a cross-programmatic course that could address some of these themes?
