Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-417) and index.

Beyond Words: A Review of Research on Adolescents and Multimodal Composition / Blaine E. Smith -- Creating Multimodal Texts in the Classroom: Shifting Teaching Practices, Influencing Student Outcomes / Katina Zammit -- Multimodality in Action: New Literacies as More than Activity in Middle and High School Classrooms / Lynn E. Shanahan, Mary B. McVee, Nancy M. Bailey -- "Memeration": Exploring Academic Authorship in Online Spaces / Rob Simon, Alisa Acosta, Eveline Houtman -- The Writing Process and Multimodal Composition: Conversations with Four Artists / William Kist -- Networked Compositional Ecologies: Infrastructure as a Model for Multimodal Writing / Reuben J. Ellis -- Digital Writing and the Role of Critical Pedagogy in Preservice Teacher Education / Peggy Albers -- Teachers' Lesson Design as Remix: Composing with Internet Resources and a Smart Authoring Tool / Bridget Dalton, Blaine E. Smith -- Considering Design: The Challenges of Assessing Multimodal Texts / Nicholas E. Husbye, Julie Rust -- Teaching Writing in the "Techno-Zone": Exploring New Literacies in a First-Grade Classroom / Leslie Foley, Barbara Guzzetti, Mary Frances Agnello, Mellinee Lesley -- Writing from and with Community Knowledge: First Grade Emergent Bilinguals' Engagements with Technology-Integrated Curricula / María Paula Ghiso, Patricia Martínez-Álvarez, Bessie P. Dernikos -- Examining 7th Graders' Tablet-Created Screencasts to Promote Safe Driving: Reflections from a Service-Learning Project / Jill Castek, Heather Cotanch -- Multimodal Response and Writing as Poetry Experience / Sue Ringler Pet, J. Gregory McVerry, W. Ian O'Byrne -- Multimodal Composition for Teacher Candidates: Models for K-12 Classroom Writing Instruction / Dana L. Grisham, Linda Smetana -- Re-Imagine Writing: Multimodal Literary Analysis in English Education / Melanie Hundley, Blaine E. Smith, Teri Holbrook -- Writing Remixed: Mapping the Multimodal Composition of One Preservice English Education Teacher / Lindy L. Johnson, Peter Smagorinsky -- For Social Action in Our Digital Age / Ted Kesler -- Transnational Preservice Teachers' Literate Lives and Writing Pedagogy in a Digital Era / Minda Morren López, Carol Brochin -- The Multimedia Memoir: Leveraging Multimodality to Facilitate the Teaching of Narrative Writing for Preservice Teachers / Donna E. Werderich, Michael Manderino -- Picturing English Language Learning Youths' and Pre-Service Teachers' Perspectives on School: How "Photovoice" Projects Might Inform Writing Curricula and Pedagogies for Diverse Youth / Kristien Zenkov, Marriam Ewaida, Athene Bell, Megan Lynch. -- Learning the Disciplinary Language and Literacies of Multimedia Composition / Deborah Kozdras, James R. King, Jenifer Schneider -- "I Want Them to Feel the Fear...": Critical Computational Literacy as the New Multimodal Composition / Clifford H. Lee and Antero D. Garcia.

"This book investigates the use of digital technologies to create multimedia documents that utilize video, audio, and web-based elements to further written communication beyond what can be accomplished by words alone"-- Provided by publisher.