We’ll use Perusall to annotate and read together. Can’t wrap my mind around it
In all utter honesty, this is me trying to comprehend multimodal. I get that this is out-of-the-box thinking with projects that allows people to grasp the concept more. It’s more than just writing, I think. It involves using your senses, plus writing and images that just blows your mind away. It always leaves one questioning how that person was able to come up with all that stuff in the first place. Shipka did a really good job at describing the different examples students used as a multimodal. What Shipka says is that there has to be a goal to be achieved. I don’t remember if Kim showed us this website, though I do remember the video from the guy.
From what I’ve explored overall, I’ve seen that multimodal is anything. I was a bit confused as to how exactly an essay can be a multimodal, but I can see that it is. Shipka says “To better understand the role these detailed accounts of goals and choices play in a multimodal, task-based framework, it may be helpful to compare them to the practice of asking students to underline their thesis statements prior to handing in a completed essay.” There are also various steps that has to be taken, and also setting the important structures such as rhetorical contexts, goals, and purposes. I think those are the complications as well–coming up with the proper goals without overflowing all the ideas. I know that when I start a project, I exaggerate and claim that I was this and that with a side of pasta and ice cream sundaes. It’s an exciting thing when you have so many ideas but the point is only focusing on one, and I think that’s what makes it complicated.
This isn’t just about being artistic or creative, but a way to get your point across in an unforgettable way. I remember a project I did in 7th grade where the science teacher asked us to replicate the cell. People used clay and other used food. I carved the cell out in a styrofoam, and the nucleus was made of a little styrofoam that was detached from the rest of the carving. It was lovely, and it was painted and I won the prize of a test pass. And my brother is actually taking that very same class right now, and the teachers used my cell as an example. So I think it’s just one of those things where you make something that people will be really impressed with. It’s a good way to make these things to teach something unforgettable.
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I agree Jazmin, multimodality can be such an abstract concept but when you think about it , it can be implemented in many different things like you mention, an essay with outlines and that can serve to help better understand the context or material. Using multimodality makes learning more fun because it gives you more freedom to try different teaching methods.