PREVIEW

=For the purposes of this project – a remix can be defined as “combining or editing existing materials to produce a new product” (Ferguson, 2011).=

Students, in a variety of ways, will be exploring the idea that a remix (and all its various forms – the mashup, sampling, cut/copy and pasting, etc.) is a means of composition.

Students will watch and respond to a web-based documentary produced by Kirby Ferguson entitled “Everything is a Remix” as a way to begin thinking about the remix as means for creativity and as a way to think about the relationships among creativity, copyright / intellectual property.

Students categorize various ways to remix and chart each along two axes: similarity and level of collaboration.

Students will remix a scene from a novel or play they read during the year.