<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hello, everyone!<div><br></div><div>We're writing to provide you with some information about an upcoming institute folks might be interested in.</div><div><br></div><div><span id="gmail-m_7166284876352235763gmail-docs-internal-guid-b9d4f42b-7fff-1a33-c5b9-8560362dcd39" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000104037198;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Digital Media and Composition Institute</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000104037198;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Ohio State University</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000104037198;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">May 3–10, 2021</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000104037198;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000104037198;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Digital Media and Composition Institute (DMAC) at The Ohio State University is an 8-day institute on the effective use of digital media in college composition classrooms. Participants will explore a range of contemporary digital literacy practices – alphabetic, visual, audio, and multimodal – and apply what they learn to the design of meaningful assignments, syllabi, curricula, or programs. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000104037198;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Our upcoming institute features:  </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000104037198;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">●</span><span style="font-size:6.999999999999999pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">      </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">World-class faculty</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> that in the past has included Jonathan Buehl, Kay Halasek, Susan Lang, Ben McCorkle, Margaret Price, Lauren Squires, and Christa Teston. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">●</span><span style="font-size:6.999999999999999pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">      </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Fully online delivery</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> including synchronous and asynchronous presentations addressing current issues in multimodal writing research and pedagogy. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-varian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