Principal Investigator
Dr. Wyn Kelley, Literature Section; Kurt Fendt, Comparative Media Studies
Fund:
Alumni Class Funds
Funding Period:
AY2012
Department/Lab/Center:
Literature
In a partnership between Literature and the HyperStudio at MIT, this project will develop a new pedagogical tool called MIXIMIZE: Editing for Readers. Drs. Kelly and Wendt believe that students can more actively engage in critical reading, writing, and thinking when they see themselves as editors directly involved in making a text readable to a wide variety of users. This tool will provide students a digital workspace in which 1) to select and annotate elements of a text, with particular attention to its multimedia sources and adaptations, and 2) to use their findings for research and writing projects in humanities classrooms.