OK so here is an interesting thing. It is from here.
So it is an image; it is sewing - a patchwork; it is written text; it is poetry; it is a wall hanging; it is a picture in Flickr; it is on a blog. Very multi layered. It is a muliti modal text.
I joined this group on classroom displays about eighteen months ago and it only had about twelve pictures for a-a-a-a–ages. Now it has a healthy 268 - and a blog and some good discussions. A sign of the times, because Flickr now has in excess of two million members. It is hardly a surprise that teachers are using it to network.
It turns out there are so many groups for teachers on Flickr and quite a few of the groups have associated blogs.
This one (of course) appeals to me - the New York City Writing Project. If you look in the discussion forums you will see they meet in real space and are really getting to support each other in exciting work. Fab.
David farmer’s drama blog gives this useful link today to a FREE BOOK about blogging.
Like ‘Anon’, I have done two posts today.
By the way …. referring to my title of this post …. This is how Jennifer defines multimodality:
*Multimodality is the combination of different kinds of modes—visual, written, oral, spatial, etc.—in a text’s content and design. Kress (1997) describes modes as the stuff we use to make texts. I like to think of it as a combination of elements that create the ethos of a text. For example: an advertisement that uses a combination of font, colour, illustration, and words to send a certain message—this mixing and melding of modalities represents multimodality. Multimodality can be seen in every text and has shifted how children engage with literacy. Students no longer simply decode, skim, and scan, but they move across and among texts, design texts, create mark-up code, render images, and so on. Where students formerly understood the layout of pages in a book, today they read, design, surf, and write on-screen. We see multimodality in popular media, in animated texts, and in the kinds of texts students make at school and at home. As educators, we should not only understand and use these modern texts, but also come to understand their place within our classrooms.
Thanks for your support. Beginning to feel better now half term has started and hopefully I can catvh up on some sleep. Have read Kellner on Habermas and now have another list of words!!
Comment by Hilda — May 26, 2006 @ 4:54 pm
Your post today is really multimodal too with all the links, text and image!
How far has blogging come just in the last twoor three years??
Comment by Chris Best — May 27, 2006 @ 9:27 am