MultiModal Capabilities For Students

What are examples of Multimodal Content you use?

What do you use multimodal content for?

What is Multimodality?

Many different "Modes" of Writing

Modes can take forms other than traditional print, alphabetic texts.

A mode is one of many forms of communication that are contained within either physical or digital media.

Multimodality DOES NOT just mean "digital"

-Color usage (Visual): How can colors used to spark anger, happiness, understanding...

-images: what do pictures/photos mixed with specific reactions do for the viewer (Gestural)

-text, font, graphics (Linguistic): What you say, how you say it, the look of text and images

- the sound of the text; (Aural) audio essays, audio poems which reflect student voice; create interpersonal connection

-the movement of the text; interactive and video segments which show engagement (Spatial, Visual)

"Transformed" Remediated Assignments can attract attention through...

What Visuals Can Do...

"Designing" Your Assignment

• Research geared towards a specific audience
• Advertisements: How do we understand how these work?
• Infographics/Visuals: Digital visual which uses text, facts, graphics and images creatively.

• Contrast = color, tones, sizes/shapes, direction
• Alignment = elements are all connected, nothing feels jumbled, nothing out of place. 
• Repetition = Consistency in elements, bullets, lists, numbers, consistent style
• Proximity = Organization and viewer comprehension; elements that are related placed together.

Sound: Intro effects, music style, looping, tone of voice,

Video: Title screens, lighting, editing/cuts, props, Special FX

Let's look at some good versus not so good examples...

Sample Student Multimodal Projects

Moving Images and Music

Personal/Literacy Narrative Focus

Sample Student Multimodal Projects

Infographics for Research Purposes

From Static Image...

To Graphically Designed...

To Dynamic Images... Still about Cars (Multimodal Assignment)

Group/Individual Activity

Today we will demonstrate our understanding of multimodality by addressing our working definitions, browsing the different "modes" of communication, and thinking about how we will adapt a past essay into something multimodal. Go To Exploring Multimodality for today's in-class assignment in Week 13.

Individually work and respond to 1 & 3.

As a group, spend time selecting who wants to report on which Multimodal Sample from #2.

To learn more about Multimodal Project Visit Purdue Owl's Site here.