multimodal project

workshop 1: resources & tools

multimodality

• communication practices based on textual, aural, linguistic, spatial, visual, somatic modes

• the use of several modes, or media, to create a single artifact

• multimodality affects different rhetorical situations, an audience’s reception of an idea or concept

• all communication is more or less always multimodal

multimodal literacy

• focuses on the design of discourse by investigating the contributions of specific semiotic resources (language, gesture, images, etc.) codeployed across various modalities (visual, aural, somatic), as well as their interaction and integration in constructing a coherent multimodal text (advertisements, posters, news reports, websites, films, etc.)

why adopt a multimodal approach?

resources

• multimodal literacy https://multimodalstudies.wordpress.com/what-is-multimodal-literacy/)• multimodal methodology (http://mode.ioe.ac.uk)• creating multimodal texts (http://creatingmultimodaltexts.com)

tools• filmmaking:

o acmi generator (http://generator.acmi.net.au/resources)o kid’s vid (http://kidsvid.4teachers.org)

• animation:o film education (

http://www.filmeducation.org/resources/primary/teaching_with_film/primary_animation/)

o movie storm (http://www.moviestorm.co.uk)

• comics & graphic novelso comic life (http://plasq.com)

• poster: wikiHow, Glogster• digital storytelling: examples (superman)

• podcast, open sankoré, prezi

prezi presentations on 1984

• https://prezi.com/mzwol9910pm0/1984-george-orwell/

• https://prezi.com/98tsglmqgdvh/1984-george-orwell/

• https://prezi.com/hwt1c5t-nyb-/george-orwell-1984/

• https://prezi.com/0m_lic4zeen9/1984-george-orwell/

• https://prezi.com/rsqqkozkkrzi/1984-by-george-orwell/

multimodal project assignment

Writing Prompt 

A multimodal text can be paper-based (books, comics, posters, etc.), digital (slide presentations, e-books, blogs, e-posters, web pages, animation, video, etc.), live (performance, etc.), or transmedia (a combination of media platforms that works together as a new medium). A multimodal project helps students to learn to most effectively construct and articulate meaning with various available communication modes (image, movement, sound, gesture, language, etc). Building upon the analysis and the annotated bibliography, students will design a multimodal project that will showcase their own creative and critical understandings of an animal or animals. They could translate their research findings into a mini graphic novel or novella, a series of posters, a podcast, a video, or any other multimodal media.