New Media 11

Unit 1: New Media Forms & Genres

The nm11-distinctive forms cluster: naming a multimedia text's form, function, and genre; tracing how technology shapes what a text can be; reading the visual grammar of graphic texts; treating interactivity as a structural design choice; and the style/device/analysis competencies that explain how a text's form reflects its purpose, audience, and message.

• Form of a multimedia text — the shape it takes

• Function of a multimedia text — its intended purpose

• Genre of a multimedia text — literary and thematic categories

• Relationships between form, function, and technology

• Elements of visual and graphic texts

• Interactivity

• Elements of style
• Literary elements and devices, including figurative language
• How forms, formats, structures, and features of texts reflect purpose, audience, and message

Unit 2: Reading & Comprehending Multimodal Texts

The receptive strand applied to multimodal and digital texts: First Peoples narrative structures and ownership protocols, reading and multimodal-reading strategies, monitoring your own comprehension, distinguishing literal from inferential meaning, and comprehending texts across every mode to guide inquiry — plus the TEACH'd First Peoples competencies of oral tradition and the influence of land and place.

• Narrative structures found in First Peoples texts
• Protocols related to the ownership of First Peoples oral texts

• The role of story, narrative, and oral tradition in First Peoples texts
• The influence of land and place in First Peoples and other Canadian texts

• Reading strategies — predicting, inferring, questioning

• Reading strategies — paraphrasing, summarizing, identifying big ideas

• Reading strategies — using context clues and text features to unpack text

• Reading strategies — making connections, visualizing, synthesizing, reflecting

• Metacognitive strategies

• Multimodal reading strategies
• Literal and inferential meaning in multimedia texts

• Comprehending written, oral, visual, and multimodal texts

Unit 3: Digital Citizenship & Media Literacy

The course-defining fifth Big Idea: evaluating the relevance, accuracy, and reliability of digital sources; recognizing the complexities of digital citizenship; thinking critically, creatively, and reflectively about media; evaluating how new-media techniques and devices serve purpose and audience; and identifying bias, contradictions, distortions, and omissions.

• Evaluating the relevance, accuracy, and reliability of digital sources

• Recognizing the complexities of digital citizenship

• Thinking critically, creatively, and reflectively about texts

• Evaluating how new media techniques and devices reflect purpose and audience

• Identifying bias, contradictions, distortions, and omissions

• Express and support an opinion with evidence

Unit 4: New Media Functions

Four distinct, nm11-distinctive jobs new media is built to do: advocating for a cause, building community, spreading propaganda, and manipulating an audience — recognizing each as a deliberate function a digital text can be constructed to serve.

• Advocacy

• Community building

• Propaganda

• Manipulation

Unit 5: Creating & Presenting Digital/Multimedia Texts

The productive strand contextualized to digital creation: oral, writing, multimodal-writing, and presentation processes; usage and conventions; citation and intellectual-property rights; selecting media and oral formats for a purpose; using digital and multimedia processes to create original texts; and refining and transforming a text for real impact.

• Oral language strategies

• Demonstrate speaking and listening skills in formal and informal contexts

• Writing processes
• Multimodal writing strategies

• Multimedia presentation processes

• Usage — avoiding double negatives, mixed metaphors, malapropisms, word misuse
• Conventions — standard punctuation, capitalization, quoting, Canadian spelling

• Citation techniques for acknowledging sources

• Selecting media appropriate to purpose, audience, and context
• Selecting an appropriate oral language format for a purpose

• Using digital and multimedia processes to create engaging, meaningful texts

• Refining texts for clarity, effectiveness, and impact
• Transforming ideas into original texts across genres and forms

• Acknowledgements and citations — avoiding plagiarism, respecting IP rights