DMAC
DMAC was profoundly influential for our program. I'll never forget the first time my department head and regular collaborator learned the term "multimodal." Even without the term, they were as sold as I was. Dickie Selfe came down that fall to conduct a feasibility study for the research center that became the Converging Literacies Center (see White Paper). Though I would not say DMAC was directly responsible for everything that came out of CLiC and my related work as described below, I can say that it set a . . . I don't know, it "seeded" work I'd long wanted to do but hadn't figured out how. I always wanted to figure out how to create a video essay. Or at least that’s my recollection. I hadn’t thought to make that link to my scholarship until I first saw/learned about and from Cindy Selfe’s work at the Watson conference back when she was the visiting scholar. I went to DMAC because I saw the projects students produced when Cindy Selfe was Watso...
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